Not a Creature Was Stirring

Tom Gannett is a hard-bitten lone miner who knows how to survive the Nevada desert, but nothing has prepared him for the day he climbs from his shaft and finds the sky, sun, and air subtly, terrifyingly wrong. Tough, blunt, and self-reliant, he goes on with his rough routine, unaware that humanity has been wiped out and that he may be the loneliest man alive. When he drives into Carson City, the silence becomes impossible to ignore. From the gas station to police headquarters to a bar, he finds people dead in place, the town frozen in an uncanny stillness that suggests time itself has broken. As night falls, Gannett pieces together the truth: everyone is dead, the end of the world has already happened, and he has missed it by weeks. Newspapers and city clocks point to a global crisis and a world thrown out of joint, leaving him angry, shaken, and alone. With a hidden bag of gold and a fierce refusal to submit, he smashes his way through the Capitol doors and heads for Reno, carrying his wealth and bewilderment into a dead, altered world. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.