Synopsis: A guilt-ridden politician, an earnest young boy, a sick old man eking out a living in the broken streets - can they alone stop humanity from destroying itself in urban Armageddon? In a divided world, wealthy citizens look down from skytop aeries to broken streets where the urban poor grow ever more desperate. As war brews, brilliant young Philip Seafort - only son of the tormented hero Nicholas Seafort - plunges into the bowels of the city to find his lost friend. Humanity is about to destroy itself. Children are in the line of fire. And a father with an iron will is at Ground Zero... (from the back cover of the Warner Books first edition)