The grid had collapsed.

But was it temporary, like before?

Or, had America's foes finally succeeded?

Would the lives of the Friday Night Club be shattered as a result?

International bestselling author, Bobby Akart, one of America's favorite storytellers, delivers up-all-night thrillers to nearly two million readers in 245 countries and territories worldwide.

"Akart writes such believable characters that you will find yourself looking at your neighbors,

wondering if they are capable of the atrocities you're reading."

America's government was on the verge of collapse and her geopolitical foes smelled blood. While the country was destroyed from within, China deals another blow and then another, a strategy of death by a thousand cuts. It threatened to bring America to her knees.

Thrust into a world without power, complete lawlessness took over. The Friday Night Club had been divided as they search for one of their own on the streets of Los Angeles. Would the search for one result in the demise of them all?

"The plot twists in the Collapse of America series are incredible."

An uneasy alliance within the community had finally been endorsed by all. But would it be adhered to? Was it nothing more than a ruse to convince those who were prepared to feed and protect those who were not? Four families remained skeptical and tried to maintain their distance from the neighborhood politics. Until a seminal event threatened to expose their anonymity.

"Akart's fiction becomes reality far too often. Behind the Gates is a cautionary tale of what's to come in our nation."

With seventy novels published worldwide, Bobby Akart delivers intense, up-all-night thrillers that have you whispering just one more chapter.