UNDERGROUND John Carlton is a twenty-four year old army mechanic who, for the last one hundred and nineteen days, has lived in a military bunker buried deep underground. Trapped down there with him are another one hundred and sixteen soldiers, less than half the base’s original compliment. A pale shadow of the highly trained fighting force they used to be, these men and women are desperate and terrified. Backed into a corner with no hope of escape, their command structure has broken down. All order and control is gone. Supplies are running low. Time is running out. For these people, the bunker has become a tomb. They have no means of escape or salvation, and each one of them is painfully aware just how precarious their situation now is. The alternatives are all equally hopeless: it won’t

