A super flu followed by a blood disease decimated the world.

Hig is one of the survivors. He lives with his dog Jasper in the small, local airport where he kept his Cessna, the Beast, maintaining it and flying every chance he gets. His only neighbor is Bangley, a survivalist type very good with guns and other weaponry. The pair watch each other's backs.

It doesn't happen regular, but there are roving bands out there looking for what they can steal. Bangley is a bit harder than Hig and needs to be. They have a zero policy when it comes to intruders. Kill before they kill you.

They have lived that way for nine years.

After one such incident, Hig starts to question his life. Why are they doing this? Is it all there is left?

Then he remembers a brief message caught on the Beast's radio three years before and decides to set off to find the airport it came from.

That's the bulk of the story, his adventures and what he found.

Quite liked this one and I owe the author an apology. I was a bit put off when I started and realized this might be one of those "literary" novels. Short, choppy sentences and no quotation marks. None at all. Since it was told in first person, until I got used to it, I found myself stopping to figur if it was actual talk or Hig's internal monologue.

Once I got that straight, I found myself flipping through the pages as fast as I could get through them.