What is the true cost of security?¿ Amid a wave of unprecedented terrorist attacks on American soil, a panicked and inexperienced president declares a state of emergency and hands over control of the country to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The quiet and unassuming Administrator Hall soon becomes the most powerful man in America. Determined to stop the attacks, Hall enforces his order across the US, using a newly empowered State Guard to deal with anyone who gets in his way.¿ As totalitarianism descends across the country, battle-weary reporter Jack Emery is faced with a terrifying new reality when friends, colleagues and sources are imprisoned before his eyes. Among weekly terrorist attacks, FEMA atrocities and the clamp tightening on every element of society, Jack becomes one of the few struggling to stop the madness.¿ This time though, he's on the wrong side of the law and fighting the very government he's trying to save.