The Handmaidens of Anarchy — Richard Brown

Friday morning arrives, and the city of River Branch teeters on the precipice of chaos. Food distribution is imperiled with the overnight hijacking of the food train, but the Pleiadians are preoccupied by their own problems with the Orions. The local born-again Christians turn to blood thirsty terrorism, leaving the army with little choice but to take ruthless action. Still lusting for power, the secretive Organization stumbles all over the ancient secret code, not quite cracking it, but not quite failing, either. Deftly sidestepping the Pleiadians, the R-Street gang moves to expand its turf, but their pangs of hunger instead set them off on a quixotic food raid into the heart of the city's safe zone. This second book of the 2012 Saga continues the action, drama, and intrigue as planet Earth hurtles on into an uncertain future.