Quantrill Books

When China and India join forces to launch a nuclear strike against the United States, one young man discovers, in the chaos that follows, that the only people who can survive in the new world order of the 1990s are killers

The exciting sequel to Systemic Shock from the bestselling author of The Ransom of Black Stealth One. The nuclear war against China and India has left America victorious, but devastated, and a strong and survival-minded government has seized control of what's left. "Ing's most ambitious book to date."--Booklist.

Ted Quantrill is a human weapon. He has been a soldier, a commando, and, finally a hit man for the United States government. But a man can grow tired of killing, and Quantrill has turned his back on the past. Here in the rugged wilderness of the Southwest, he plans to make a new life for himself and the woman he hopes to marry. But yesterday won't let him alone. To preserve his life, he'll have to kill again. And his target is a good friend, as well-trained and deadly as he is...