Ten years ago, calamity came.
It was a burst in the sky, which gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers: they became Epics. And they used their powers to crush mankind, and rule.
No one fought back.
Nobody but the Reckoners. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, whove dedicated their lives to studying the Epics, finding their weaknesses, and assassinating them.
David is determined to join them, and he had his sights set on the greatest Epic of them all. Steelheart. The Epic who killed
David's father.
The Epic he's seen bleed...