What happens in civilized society when it is cut off from the rest of the world? With secret government filtering systems shut down because of the power loss, can Lake Michigan be saved before it is turned into the Dead Sea?

In a continuing bid to topple the West, Syrian terrorists explode an electro-magnetic pulse bomb over Chicago. The tables are turned on Montana and her CIA operative boyfriend when they turn from hunters into the prey.

Montana races against the clock and the savage streets of Chicago, that have returned to the days of the Wild West, to rescue Jim from kidnappers and obtain the codes to avert a disaster.