A drone had hovered above the rooftop cooling units and delivered a focused burst that destroyed temperature controls. Servers overheated within minutes. Automated fire suppression systems failed. The building was filled with smoke.

Not a flicker. Not a rolling brownout. The lights cut clean, like a switch thrown by a steady hand.

When a coordinated swarm of imported drones cripples America’s power grid and hunts down the ultra wealthy, a port worker, a rural radio operator, and an intelligence analyst must survive the collapse and decide whether their nation answers chaos with annihilation or reinvention.