Judgment day has come. An unstoppable force has swept across the world from east to west. People have disappeared in the millions. The how and why remains unknown. The loss of family and friends without explanation is terrible, but what follows is worse. Monsters are very real, especially when they wear human form and operate with human intelligence. Whether undead, or zombies, or vampires, or ghouls, the survivors face an adversary unlike any mankind has previously battled. War has begun, but it is a war not of conquest but extermination. In the Middle East, the crew of the USS Cyclops fights to survive against an enemy that hides deep within their ship. Whether they are otherworldly creatures or the soulless bodies of former shipmates, they are an enemy without weakness or mercy. Near the capital, a Navy captain struggles to come to grips with a changed world while burdened by an overweening bureaucracy. He has one principal desire, to keep his family safe. He has one principal question, how to survive in a world descending into chaos. To the west, a force of creatures fights for survival. They fight not only against former friends and family, but also against an unseen enemy that seeks to harvest the world's pain and drag them back to hell. The end of the world threatens. The battle for survival looms large. Heaven has reached down and swept the best away. The gates of hell have opened and what has entered into the world has an insatiable appetite. Civilization hangs in the balance as bureaucrats maneuver for position and the world slouches towards its not so noisy collapse. It is best not to be caught outside after dark.