The book takes place ten years after the worldwide societal collapse that was underway at the start of the first book. It begins with Dan and his crew in Beaufort, South Carolina, working as a coastal tramp freighter. A rudimentary society holds in Beaufort and a few other ports and the occasional small tanker brings refined fuel from Louisiana, so civilization is getting a toehold in some places.
Dan wants to head for Argentina to escape worsening volcanic winters in the northern hemisphere, and adventures ensue. There's a hurricane, a castaway, skullduggery aboard and Haitian pirates at sea, a wrecked cruise ship, and a glimpse of life in the post-apocalyptic Caribbean. It was a page turner.
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