It’s 2018 and the larger population centers of the USA are inexorably descending into anarchy.  An inept and self-serving congress is enabling the decline.  A small, determined, but loosely organized movement called “Take Back America” has decided to go it alone in the mountains and backwoods of the country.  Moving into sparsely populated areas, they mean to use their isolation and weapons to protect what they've brought with them for survival.  Poorly prepared for the rigors of self-sufficiency, they soon turn to imposing themselves on small towns and villages for food and medical care.  One such town, Calliope Springs is home to Bea Gentillion, hard-nosed, hard-rode and hard-to-stop owner of a popular bar, and arch enemy of the local lawman Mardel Fawcett.  Their virulent history goes back over thirty years.  Several of the “Backers” are offered a way to sustain themselves.  The enterprise demands absolute privacy, and Chief Fawcett and his deputies will guarantee that.  In exchange he gets a cut of any money generated by the business, plus he’ll allow the Backers to take over the town.  Bea hears and sees what’s going on and decides she has to stop him, but she can’t do it alone.  A close friend, Matt Halford, was the object of the Chief’s wrath thirty years previous and left town to escape almost certain death at the Chief’s hand.  Bea asks Matt to come home and join her fight.  As a Marine with twenty-five years experience on “blackside” missions he’s ready and able;  the Chief's threat plus Matt's long held belief that he abandoned Bea thirty two years before also makes him very willing.  In this battle there will be no rules of engagement.


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