Mike watches as logistical systems crumble beneath him with almost no warning just as a major blizzard hits the East Coast.

The main character is Mike Mitchel, a successful businessman living in New York City married into a family of wealth and power.

However, things start to fall apart when logistic systems for the main shipping companies grind to a standstill.

As a blizzard sets in, Mike walks in on Chuck and his wife talking about leaving New York City to their bugout location in the woods.

The winter storm drags on, burying roads in snow, and Chuck and Mike are stuck inside their apartment complex.

Outside their apartment, a New York teenager develops a peer-to-peer mesh network messaging service that bypasses cell towers.

The book then concludes, revealing that the Chinese troops were not opportunistic occupants, but rather one of several relief forces the government had called in.

It describes how a Russian cyber operation intended to siphon funds from a Connecticut-based hedgefund became a nationwide virus.