When he kills a man to protect a dog, he becomes a runner, off the Path, intending to journey across the war-torn country from Arizona to his former home in New York. Monroe reneges on a deal, and Cal instead becomes Pvt. The Path-a militant and religiously fundamentalist organization-in which women are robed and veiled “companions” ministering to the men-is dedicated to being “a light in the darkness and the rod that falls upon the backs of the defiant.” Cal, captured by the Path six years previously, is set to move up from novice to citizen when Capt. Federal forces are at war with the Army of the Glorious Path, which includes most of the former Confederacy plus additional states, including the southwest, Alaska and Washington. It’s 2026, and the United States is once again fragmented. Fifteen-year-old Callum Roe is caught up in the second American Civil War.
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