.With the collapse of the government after the Second World War, Americans have learned to live without help or interference from police, lawyers and bureaucrats. It is a simple and happy time until rumors of a terrorist attack suddenly plunge the sleepy community of Vancouver Washington into a fight for survival. What do you do when there is no government to protect you? When the town rashly joins a hastily formed coalition to fight an enemy they do not fully understand, things go wrong in a hurry. A group of high school friends find that they must face this threat alone. But who is the real...

With the collapse of the government after the Second World War, Americans have learned to live without help or interference from police, lawyers and bureaucrats. In this simple and happy world lives an eleven-year-old boy who wants to be a scientist. He finds a plant that can produce uranium which he and his friends set about to put to good use. The plant mysteriously disappears without a trace until the young scientist and his friends discover a secret operation run by desperate men. The boys' discovery leads them to a murder and a kidnapping. What will the little town of Vancouver,...

A young scientist and his friends are introduced to the frightening array of alternate universes when he creates a device that can open a doorway between dimensions. He learns that very small events can change how the world operates in very powerful and terrifying ways. Lost in a wilderness of parallel worlds and on the verge of despair, he finally discovers the key to finding his way home. When he finally makes it back, he vows to never leave the safety and comfort of his home universe again. He soon discovers, however, that the world of the human brain can be just as scary when he creates a...

Ollie wants to lead a Boy Scout troop. Wade wants to lead soldiers into combat. Dr. Snider just wants to go home and retire. The three men find themselves taking a group of reluctant teenagers on a campout in the wilds of Nagorno Karabakh, where the get hopelessly lost. They wander into the no-man s-land between Armenia and Azerbaijan and find themselves caught up in a small war. To make things worse, the US has lost a nuclear warhead in the area and the Russians and Iranians want to find it as badly as the Americans do. The kids come upon it first and only the Baku Boy Scouts and their...