How hard must a man fight when the apocalypse arrives? Civil war ravishes the country. The economy collapses. A plague spreads like fire, and pollution darkens the sky. This is the toxic world of Robert Ashton. A wasteland of broken dreams, death, tech, and mutants. But he is not alone. He and his partner navigate life underground, where it is safer. Society has buckled, and working as a smuggler, Robert builds a criminal life to keep the two of them fed. But nothing lasts forever, and he is forced to return to the surface when the underground suffers a brutal military raid. What he discovers shocks a man who thinks he cannot be shocked anymore. He emerges into the hellscape of the Third World War... Abandon Us is the prequel to E.T. Gunnarsson's multi-award-winning book Forgive Us , a story readers call " thrilling, brutal, and completely unique. "