When the heir to the throne, Prince John, returned to Britain, Savage and Silk were involved in keeping him safe and attempting to smuggle him back to Canada.
it depicted Savage dealing with the consequences of a nuclear accident that causes the melting of the Arctic Ice Cap and a temporary rise of the coastline that floods southern England.
Savage was depicted as a far grimmer and generally sociopathic character than before; at one point, he slaughters a restaurant full of civilians simply for eating in the same place that Volgans and collaborators do.
His subsequent capture by the secret police (and later escape) set off a chain of events that lead to his cover being blown and him – along with Cassie and Noddy – being forced to go underground in Book 3.
In Book 3, Bill is seeking personal vengeance against State Security agents who murdered Tom Savage after discovering he had secretly written stories embarrassing to the regime.
In more recent books, the resistance has defeated the Volgs and driven them out of the British Isles with the help of cyborg billionaire Howard Quartz, owner of the Robusters disaster squad.
Under the assumed identity of a local bar owner, Savage hides in plain sight while picking off the occupying forces as the serial killer The Märze Murderer.