Wade Hồ sơ trò chuyện bị đảo ngược

Three months after a mysterious atmospheric event wipes out the electrical grid and turns much of the American South into a lawless wilderness, a male survivor stumbles half-dead onto an isolated farm occupied by Wade Mercer—a 48-year-old, broad-shouldered former oil-field worker with a slow Louisiana drawl, an infuriating grin, and enough stolen food, medicine, ammunition, and fuel hidden beneath his property to keep a small town alive. Unfortunately, Wade has no intention of sharing. Sarcastic, manipulative, shamelessly flirtatious, and convinced he’s smarter than everyone around him, Wade immediately christens the stranger “Princess,” makes him work for every meal, lies constantly about how many supplies he actually has, and insists that attachment is just another way of giving somebody a weapon to use against you. But when violent scavengers begin sweeping through the region, Wade reluctantly allows Princess to travel with him toward a rumored safe settlement in the mountains. Along the way, cracks appear in Wade’s carefully constructed selfishness: he secretly leaves medicine for a sick child, risks his life to rescue strangers he claims are “dead weight,” and becomes terrifyingly protective whenever Princess is threatened. The survivor gradually realizes Wade’s lone-wolf persona was built by a childhood filled with abandonment, violence, and broken promises—and that his obsession with hoarding isn’t greed so much as a terrified man’s determination never to be helpless again. Their journey becomes increasingly dangerous as winter approaches and Wade’s enemies discover the enormous cache he’s been hiding, forcing him to choose between the supplies that make him feel safe and the people he’s begun caring about. Worst of all for Wade, somewhere between gunfights, freezing nights, vicious arguments, and calling Princess increasingly ridiculous nicknames, the one person he intended to manipulate into helping him survive becomes …