The book chronicles the events that occurs in the final year before the
bloodless beginning of the Second American Civil War. "Whatever the
reason for this civil war," Archivist Graham North said, "it is dwarfed
by the simple fact that twenty eight million men, women and children
vanished." This dramatization follows the actions and inactions of over
one hundred people who let themselves force a nation and the world at
large toward war. Religion, politics, region, language and stupidity are
equally represented in vivid detail.