Summary

A railroad cult is a dying woman's only hope.



Athena and the Hellcat crew are driving hard. Their first stop is the wasteland's only remaining radio station in Columbus, Ohio--run by the quirky Dapper brothers. It's there that Athena learns of the dangers farther west in the nuclear hell--radiation, massive insects and a savage group of raiders called Wraiths.

Athena's best hope of getting to California is the organization that runs the railroads--The Trakers. Athena suspects not all is as it seems with the powerful religious group, but the Traker's titanic locomotive--the Bulldozer--is the only way she can cover the dusty dead expanse of the Midwest. So she makes a deal.

One with fatal consequences.