Synopsis: "What happens to that which is stressed beyond its strength yet cannot bend? It breaks, of course. If the object in question is a mere tree caught in a wind, cleanup is relatively simple. But what happens when a college campus full of academically-oriented gengineered anthro-rabbits hard-wired to be non-violent find themselves living through and beyond Armageddon? It's not an easy thing to remain a pacifist once the lights have gone out forever, an Omega virus has sickened the land and the armies of darkness march unhindered across the plains. What do you do as the danger edges closer and closer to home and your mental programming offers no flexibility at all? Call in a madrabbit, of course—anthropologist Dr. Rusty Harrison, the University's leading authority on human conflict-resolution behavior. Which, unfortunately for his social standing among his own inflexibly purehearted kind, encompasses the arts of lying, gunfighting, spying, booby-trapping, infiltration... ...and artifact-stealing." (publisher's blurb)