"The holovisions flashed red, "Threatcon 5 ," "Threatcon 5 " People ran for the doors. Some made it through to the street. Then the doors closed and sealed Devin in with the rest. Rebuffed, the late scramblers turned back in a herd towards the claim area. Children were still screaming but the sounds from their incandescent little faces were drowned out by the pulsing security alarm. The black shirts appeared, extruded into the calamity through small doors at opposing ends of the claim area. There were ten, then twenty, then thirty of them. Their visors were down, transmitting schematics and target information into their eyes. They were armed with automatic rifles with heat-laser-guided bullets. They jogged though the claim area and back towards the security checkpoint. The alarm blared on..." Welcome to the 'not-too-distant future' Devin Moore is an exile from 'the last free colony' of Goldstein, Alaska. His journey into police state Amerika is an odyssee of delusion, brutality, and chaos. With Director Morgenthau's sadistic "nats" in close pursuit, Devin contemplates making a mysterious 'Delivery' that will allow him to return home.