Irregular Scout Team One

A year after a plague has wrecked much of the world, the American military begins cautiously pushing back into the ruined countryside. Ahead of the main forces travel small Irregular Scout Teams, mixed groups of veterans and experienced civilians who move quietly, check roads, rail lines and waterways, and look for survivors to bring out. Their job is to gather intelligence rather than fight, avoiding both the infected and lawless bands. Team One, the most seasoned unit, is sent into the broken Upper Hudson Valley, their own home ground. The members include a team leader haunted by the loss of his family, a medic determined to keep everyone alive, a marksman, a huge gunman, a sharp-tongued redhead, and a former soldier who thrives on war. Orders, bad information and bad luck soon put them all at risk. The story follows how these people depend on one another in extreme danger, and how hope survives in a collapsed world.