On a hazy August afternoon, without warning, a nuclear bomb dropped in the middle of town.

Only it didn’t detonate. At least not immediately. Instead, the explosion slowed down, promising to explode over an excruciating 150 years. Officials deemed it not an immediate threat. In fact, it was so safe a park was built around it. Jacob’s familial connection with the bomb, and his twin brother Alex’s obsession over it, was enough to drive him away, until the call came late one night; Alex had gone missing, and was last seen tinkering with the bomb.

Unsure of who to trust, Jacob decides to track down his lost brother, needing to cleave his way through the tangled web of Alex’s life. In his way are a well-funded bomb cult, a connected politician, local business owners, anarchists, and a strange man in a tattered raven costume that can read his mind.