IN THE RAVAGED WORLD of DEATHLANDS, YOU HAVE FEW FRIENDS, AND MANY ENEMIES. America's post holocaust nightmare continues as Ryan Cawdor returns to the monstrous urban slum that was once New York City..and discovers a piece of the future.. As the roaming band of survivors seek desperately to escape the eerie wastes and mutated life-forms of their nuclear hell, they emerge from a gateway back into the ruins of Manhattan - the concrete battlefield where Ryan had avenged the death of his father and older brother. The city is flooded hellzone ruled by street gangs and hordes of reptilian mutants who inhabit the sewers. Under this urban ruin lives the self-styled King of the Underground, presiding over his subterranean fortress filled with prenuke memorabilia. And here, in this once great metropolis, lives a ten-year-old boy. He is Ryan Cawdor's son.. The children shall inherit the Earth.