One hundred years removed from the second Black Plague, America's population concentrates in massive urban hubs, dependent on the corporation known as GenoSix to produce X-2, a serum engineered to suppress the plague by halting the aging process. Alcatraz guard Crixtian Donovan ignores the politics of it all. He's content with working overtime for his wife's next injection. But after she's arrested for a crime she didn't commit, Crixtian discovers the truth behind America's recovery. The self-proclaimed "Curer of the Masses" President Sullivan holds court from Chicago. Sullivan's regime uses X-2 as a tool to maintain his several-decades-long presidency and crush those who would challenge his rule. Many have tried. All have fallen. Yet murmurs of an uprising fester within the Fringe, one that involves a ghost from Crixtian's past, a ghost that will cast him into the middle of a rebellion that will change the country forever. With America on the brink of revolution, two men will navigate the fate of Sullivan's tattered red, white, and blue. One will decide how to punish. The other must choose between self-preservation and embracing the revolution by forsaking his wife.