I love dystopian fiction and Peter Heller does it so well! Fantastic descriptions of nature, but also physical action, adventure, all wonderfully interwoven with a backstory that was drip-fed at exactly the right moments. Jess and his best friend Storey are on a hunting trip in Maine, but when they start travelling back home they discover blown up bridges, houses and cars - something has been going on while they were away. They come across Callie, a young girl, who they decide to try to return to her family before returning to their own, and Burn is the story of how they attempt this. There was one thing which didn't work for me: the jeopardy. Maine is involved in a war of secession and Jess and Storey are caught in the crossfire, but aside from this, I didn't feel that they were in enough danger, or not in enough personal danger. And then I had a few quibbles with things like - where were all the bodies at first, and what was that strange inland lobster fishing village? I thought these were going to go somewhere and when they didn't I wondered why they were there. Still, recommended.