The story is set in
Manhattan during a protracted war between the United States and the
Soviet Union; midtown Manhattan has been rendered an uninhabitable wasteland by a Soviet "Hell Bomb," though the rest of the city is still occupied. The narrator is a British citizen named Wysten Turner, who is in New York to barter electronic equipment that he suspects will be used in the construction of an American military base on the moon.
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