"The Homeland Security Police shot Grandpa in the back." A.D. 2081: When 15-year-old Adam Baker's family is murdered by federal agents, he seeks to escape the brutal regime that has commandeered a once great nation under the banner of Homeland Security. Adam sets out on a long and dangerous journey westward to China, which has evolved into a haven of prosperity in the eighty years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Homeland Security is a timeless action thriller that paints a grim and frightening picture of what happens to ordinary people when government oversteps its bounds in the name of national safety.