The sunken cities are split into warring factions. For many years, the Patriotic Front and the Army of God have been engaged in mutual destruction. Here the voices of war sound and children fight. Nationalists against religious fanatics, boys armed with shotguns against the most advanced murder weapons invented by science. In an endless civil war, few will survive to adulthood. What will remain if the Army of God destroys the last monuments? A brutally believable sequel to "Shipbreaker" - about survival, the ugliness of human nature, ideology raised to the point of absurdity, friendship and growing up.