The Lost Traveller [antikvár]

prologue iIn the third year of the last decade of the twentieth century, the civilisation then current in the world came to an abrupt end.For reasons we can only guess at, one of the major powers launched an all-out attack on another. From then on, the outcome was inevitable; the moves for the most part were pre-programmed into electronic machinery. Nuclear, drug and chemical attacks crippled each of the major powers, and their effects dispersed to cover the entire globe.This was the crisis in world affairs known to future times by the simple synonym BLAM____ The Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club of California survived.In the lottery of nuclear offence and defence and of the winds, much of the west coast of America was spared the effects of radiation for a time. A potent cocktail of poison and drugs had been unleashed on the cities; but the Angels were already accustomed to facing a hostile world while under the influence of every known combination of narcotics; and their strong sense of corporate identity and loyalty to the group survived at a time when soldiers tore off their uniforms and executives danced naked in the ashes of their corporation buildings. In the shattered streets their kingdom