Jack, a sometimes humorous, sometimes philosophical ex-special procedures pilot and soldier is among the few left to struggle through the desolation left in the aftermath; seeking to survive as a new ferocious varieties emerges in the rubble, hungry and unrelenting. Will his special forces training be enough? Will he have the ability to keep his children secure and instruction the few survivors through perils that today roam the globe they once knew? Or will the hordes that now own the night time prevail, forever removing the last of mankind from life? Humankind was once near the top of the food string. But that has now changed.