O Blindado Mortal

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Radio Announcer: [voice-over] Satellite measurements of the Mesopotamian basin show that radioactivity levels remain high. And with the oil fields in Arabia still burning, the world's total reserves of petroleum have dropped even lower, making gasoline all but unattainable except for governmental agencies. Food riots have continued into the third day and martial law was declared for all of greater Detroit. Army units and the National Guard have been called into restore order. And the military commander in Michigan stated... .

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Radio Announcer: ... warning that all looters will be shot on sight. The migration into the countryside continues. And once peaceful rural areas have become a battlefield as roving bands, which can only be called bandits, raid farming communities for well hidden supplies of fuel as well as food and ammunition. The most notorious of these groups is led by the renegade army colonel Jacob Straker who travels in a heavily armored vehicle and has so far eluded all attempts at capture. With most of the law enforcement agencies fully committed to the cities, it looks like his mobile reign of terror will continue for some time.