Five winters after the lights went out, a man crawls off a field with no coat and a stolen ledger. Inside it: a list of towns, a column of numbers, and one word that means a place has already been decided.
Stuart Redman's valley is on that page.
What's coming isn't raiders. It's a system, patient and quiet, that has emptied four towns without burning a single roof. Stopping it means walking into the dead heart of winter with eleven people and one shot.