A few bleak years hence, Dick Cheney's twisted twin has burrowed his way to the top. A police-state Hammer falling on tall and short alike, our hero has more spine than initially suspected. The Hammer soon smashing him, he embarks on a Quixotic protest against what his country has become. Blood spilled, he's ridiculed on every front page in town and has to marshal all his slapdash forces to save his skin and clear his name. Escaping mangling medical 'tests,' he's smeared and spied on, then hounded by lying officials, a dissembling press and malfeasant cable 'news.' An upside-down funnel, Derail this Train Wreck's focus broadens throughout. Fleeing to Washington, he becomes enmeshed with four soldiers – a crusading private, a soul-sick Special Ops sergeant, a femme fatale major and the corrupt general she seeks to bring to heel – as he's pursued by the End-Times cult that dominates the halls of power.