"I spent more than half my life, when I ought to have been enjoying
myself, arguing and planning and running around like a maniac, all to
sell a lot of things to people I didn't know, so that I could buy a lot
of things that I didn't have time to use. Sheer lunacy. And it took
nothing less than an atom bomb to blow me out of it."
Following a devastating nuclear war which has seen Britain bombed back
into the pre-industrial past, Stephen Dawlish and his family live a
quiet rural life. Until their quiet, agrarian existence is disrupted by
the appearance of three representatives of the New World Order - an
American, a Russian and an Indian - who have devastating plans that will
end their new peaceful way of life forever...