In a consummate act of terror, Washington DC is vaporized by a Russian nuclear truck bomb employed by a radical Islamic group. All Roy Lee White wanted to do after serving with the Marine Corps in Grenada and Lebanon was go home and ride Rodeo. Unfortunately, becoming a father after a single night's fling put paid to his rodeo dreams. In the chaos after DC was vaporized, militias were formed to police the hinterland in the face of terror attacks and lawlessness that descended on the country at the demise of the Federal government. Roy Lee's success as a Militia commander led to his appointment as a deputy sheriff and later as a special operative of the governor. At odds with the commander of state police and pursued by the governor's beautiful assistant, Roy Lee struggles to balance the conflicting responsibilities of his family and his various jobs, to survive in a dystopian world.