As they approach the car, Monks is shocked to see the face of his son, Glenn, staring back at him. As a teen, Glenn began using drugs and became abusive. At seventeen he ran away from home and hasn't been heard from in five years.

Before Dr. Monks can fully comprehend what he is seeing, he is kidnaped and taken to a backwoods cabin. There Monks meets Freeboot, the drug-addicted leader of a band of misfits. They view the world as full of "have-nots" ruled by the few who have it all. Freeboot is starting a social revolution designed to liberate the downtrodden.

Freeboot and his followers kill the rich, stealing their most valued possessions. From one man they take his specialty golf clubs, from another they take his wife's priceless collection of jade jewelry. They deposit the items at homeless camps, inflaming the poor with envy and the rich with fear.

Monks is taken into a room where Freeboot's four-year-old son, Mandrake, lies sick on a cot. Monks determines that the boy is a severely dehydrated diabetic. He must be taken to a hospital quickly. Freeboot believes this to be nothing but an escape ploy. Eventually the situation become so dire that Monks takes Mandrake in a desperate attempt to get medical help.

This book spends a great deal of time detailing Monks' time with his captors and his efforts to escape. It would have been better had more time been spent chronicling the revolution for which the book is named. A revolution, as described by the author, appears chillingly plausible. I found the use of ridiculous nicknames such as "Hammerhead" and "Motherload" to be very distracting. Despite a few faults this was an interesting book.