Jack Smight

Hard-boiled private investigator Lew Harper is hired to locate a missing millionaire.

After a horrific nuclear assault, three soldiers band together in a special all-terrain land cruiser and head for Albany, NY, the only American city to be spared in the attack. As they travel through the post-nuke wastelands, they pick up a beautiful woman and an incorrigible teenager while battling mutant insects, packs of violent survivors, and brutal electrical storms that savage the already barren plains.

A dying jazz singer enlists Tod and Buz to search out and reunite her old combo.

A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.