In their darkest moments, few citizens of the twentieth century could have envisioned the firestorm that plunged the world into chaos of a nuke-altered reality. Twenty-second-century America may not be much worth fighting for, but Ryan Cawdor and his warrior survivalists push on, clinging to the deeep welspring of human hope that somewhere in the raw, violent new frontier of a rad-blased tomorrow is someplace they can call home. The survivalists trek through the deserts of the Southwest which leads into the bayous of what was once Louisiana. The eerie, lifeless silence of the swamps warns of trouble ahead. But nothing can prepare them for Dr. Jean, a madman who has harnassed pre-Dark tech to create an army of crazed zombies marching toward his own twisted vision of Deathlands domination.