For thirty years, Captain Raymond Tolliver has kept watch beneath a ruined America, maintaining a nuclear missile that was never launched and sharing the bunker with the preserved body of his dead co-commander.
Then the surface radiation finally drops below the threshold for survival.
Ray has one day to prepare for the climb into a world he has not seen since the war. He gathers food, rigs a litter for the friend he refuses to abandon, and follows the egress procedure line by line. But when the blast door begins to open, the buried facility wakes in ways it never has before.
Machines that have been silent for decades start moving. Old monitors flicker to life. An automated defense system begins rewriting the rules Ray trusted to keep him alive. As the bunker turns from shelter into prison, Ray must find a way out before its final safety protocol is complete. What waits above may be stranger than the wasteland he feared, but the greater danger is buried with him: a system that remembers every choice he made in the name of duty.
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