After a year in darkness, Alan Harding emerges from the underground facility at Fort Longsteel into a world crippled by its dependency on solar energy and facing extinction. Humanity had barely survived The Panic 70 years earlier and now the slow death brought on by the collapse of society seems unavoidable, especially as it seems the worst is still to come. Accompanied by a strange hound he rescued from the labs deep beneath the Fort, Alan sets out to aid the survivors who struggle to hold back mankind's final hour, joining up with a handful of soldiers desperately trying to fan the embers...

A suicide mission on a backwater planet with a cockney-speaking robot and 6.2 million undead colonists. What could possibly go wrong? When a legal loop-hole allows Earth Government to force TRIDENT INC, a Private Response Company, to do their bidding, Carter and his team of former soldiers have no choice but to respond. The mission? To investigate the loss of communication from a distant colony on Golan IV and recover any important encrypted data. But Carter suspects that all is not what it seems and finds that on planet-fall, the situation is far worse than anything they've ever encountered...

Miller is the last Englishman. It's not a title he enjoys because it means that whenever the looters and the treasure hunters come across the Atlantic to the ruins of his country, it's his job to hunt them down. That is, if the packs of wild dogs don't kill them first. Or the collapsing buildings. Or the disease. Miller soon finds himself helping a former US Ranger, Claudia Riley, hunt for her missing nephew who's disappeared somewhere in England. The US want him found too - him and his Russian girlfriend who they suspect are planning to stage a terrorist attack from one of the many...