George Butler and his friends foresaw that one day their country would collapse under the unsustainable weight of its borrowings. They had a plan that when the worst came to the worst they would retreat from the overcrowded city to the safety of a remote farm deep in the countryside. They had not foreseen that their way out of the city would be blocked by mysterious forces and that they would come under siege in their own homes from marauding house-grabbers. And, unbeknown to George, his name was on a list which would shape his destiny and that of his country.