In a not too distant future, the island of Manhattan has been commandeered by rebels aided by terrorists who have set themselves against the U.S. government. The Brooklyn Bridge, now fallen into disuse, stands as a sort of "no-man's land" between the island and the military that patrol the Hudson River. When the rebels bomb the Bridge, the nation is plunged into what might become a second Civil War.<br><br>Captain Jace Rickert is a grounded pilot whose Army lover, Second Lieutenant Tomas Tait, is sent on a routine reconnaissance mission. When Tait disappears and the military can’t stop the impending war to find one missing soldier, Rickert takes matters into his own hands.

War Torn

through the rooms of my tiny housing unit, touching the things I


can’t take. I know I’ll never see them again; Alden is right, I’m


going AWOL, and once I walk out that door, I can never come back.


When I find Tomas we’ll have to go away, somewhere far from the


military and the war and anyone who may know me. I’m giving up the


service to find my boy. I’d give up my life, if


of photographs, each one a memory snapped onto film, a moment


captured into the forever emulsions of the picture. Tomas and me in


Wildwood, on the Flyer before they tore the old roller coaster


down. The two of us at his mom’s place in Philly, hugging each


other tight for the camera. The first Christmas tree we put up,


that year he bought me the thin gold chain I wear around my neck


beneath my uniform. Even now the metal shifts along my collarbone


when I breathe, reminding me that although I don’t know where he


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