One - Conrad Williams

This is no countryhe knows, and no placehe ever wants to see, even in the shuttered madness of his worst dreams. ButRichard Janesurvived. He walks becausehe hasno choice andat the end of this molten road, running along the spine of a burned, battered country,his son may be alive. The sky crawls with venomous cloud and burning rain whilethe land is a scorched sprawl of rubble and corpses. Rats have risen from the depths to gorge on the carrion, anda glittering dust coats everything. It hides a terrible secret asnew horrors take root. He walks on, with one hope.