![]() As food and supplies dwindle, it becomes more and more apparent that the quarantine is not temporary, and that survival will only become harder. Gary’s first instincts are to return to the army and get back to duty, but when he realizes how impossible that is, he sets out to survive in the dying wasteland. Trying to keep the plague contained, the survivors-immune, but carriers of disease, Typhoid Marys all-are stranded on the far side of the river, cut off from the rest of the world. ![]() ![]() The Army has drawn the line at the Mississippi River: those on the eastern side are under strict quarantine, while those on the western side are under martial law, protected by armed guards with shoot-to-kill orders. When he awakes, he finds the entire eastern United States bombed and be-plagued by an unknown enemy-Chicago and his army base aglow in nuclear fire, the countryside filled with those killed by biological warfare. ![]() The space-suit/raygun man has nothing to do with the plot, but the wraparound cover of burnt-out cityscapes with that radioactive background is impressive.įor his thirtieth birthday, celebrating ten years in the army, Corporal Russell Gary goes on a lengthy bender. ![]()
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