It is five hundred years since the Earth nearly died in a hailstorm of nuclear bombs and resultant plagues. No one knows why the ancients tried to destroy the world. Their vast cities are still there, crumbling monuments to their colossal stupidity. Forbidden places now, where only the criminally insane Druids, and tribes of fiercely territorial cannibals roam their ruined streets. Outside the cities in scattered clearings, villagers struggle to survive, hoping that the bands of outlaws who strike with impunity from the huge forests covering most of England would somehow avoid their vulnerable community. It is a violent world the ‘Ghost Killer’ knows well. He has vowed to kill all those responsible for his wife’s death, and he was doing well until he met Ruth. A strange and beautiful girl with powerful mystical powers who offers him hope and the prospect of peace. Words that had almost been lost to his vocabulary after fifteen years of unremitting violence and bloodshed. Unfortunately for him, to find this Promised Land she speaks of, he is going to have to cut a swathe of blood through the land with his axe, and in doing so threaten the very thing he discovers he now wants more than anything else. An end to the bloodshed.