The Specter Upon Us
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Last published Thu, Dec 22, 2022
Tomorrow was supposed to bring graduation. Instead, it brought war.
On the eve thereof, Oakland Tech's class of 2019 finds itself on the top floor of a San Francisco luxury high rise in an illicit party involving the most unlikely guests: a tech billionaire's son, a police chief's two daughters, a mute renegade, and the class recluse. Then the power goes out. Missiles scorch across the night sky. Downtown San Francisco erupts under an apocalyptic bombardment unlike anything ever seen. In the hours that follow, the shaken classmates must band together to escape a collapsing tower and endure a bloody invasion as they are caught in the crossfire.
Those who survive find that it is only the beginning of their harrowing ordeal.
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