MUTANT HUNTER: Splinterland

One of the New States’ thermonuclear warheads is missing. David Starling, High Counsel to the New States’ Board of Governors, knows if the device is detonated in the right place—or the wrong place—the result will trigger a catastrophic reset of the a bad thing for the human race which is still crawling out of the radioactive debris left by the wars of the twenty-third century.

Mutants have the weapon. Starling’s network of field agents and spies know that much. Which mutants, they’re not certain, but all signs point to the worst strain of freaks the ruined planet has to offer—Hydrates. The same signs, unfortunately, also indicate the weapon is on its way to a place no human wants to go—a place rivaled only by the Slicks.

Located in the northern sector of a vast and barren expanse designated the Nuclear Dead Zone, Splinterland is a thousand square kilometers of wind-scoured snow and bulletproof ice. Surrounded by unhabitable badlands and contaminated blast scars still burning hot with radiation, Splinterland was once described as a deep grave in an even deeper graveyard.

Starling is convinced experienced bounty hunters are his last best bet to hunt down the mutants and recover the warhead. He again conscripts Leon Miller. Still reeling from the beatdown he took in the Slicks, Miller is treading water. He refuses the job. Starling offers the mutant hunter a bounty he can’t refuse—the life of the woman.