New York: David McKay Company, Inc., [1971]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Set in a dystopian near future. "This is the post-revolutionary diary of twelve-year-old Alan Erdman, one of the horde of feral Cub Scouts and pistol-packing Lolitas who inhabit New York after the President and all sensible adults have fled to foreign shores. The Pentagon-Mafia provisional government sends out occasional tank patrols and the student radicals who started it all are holed up waiting for their own escape break while the kids (media-crazed or plain atavistic or both, it's never clear) play commando with Army surplus and safari gear looted from Abercrombie's." - Kirkus review 29 March, 1971.