In Part One of this adventure we find North America beginning to recover from the fall of its civilisation. John, Eden's protagonist who sailed east with a small band of men to the British Isles to see how they fared in the catastrophe, found them in turmoil. John and his fighters remained to help Scotland, Eire, and Wales form an alliance to pose a formidable challenge to the English gang leaders as the pace of the war intensified to rid them of their aggressive neighbours. The sailors sailed back home.
In this Part, a sizable volunteer army from Eden arrives to join the Alliance to help defeat first the gang leaders of the English counties, then the fighters in London, and ultimately an invading army from Normandy. John facilitated the gang leaders' negotiations to create lasting peace in the Isles.
Intertwined with the story of war and death are the personal interactions of the principal characters in their struggle to make the best of a difficult situation and John's conversion to Christianity.