This is the last chapter. Thirty chapters, three parts, over a thousand pages, and it all comes down to this: a rescue mission, a broken machine, a dead city, and a man standing on a mountain tracing a symbol in the air.
After sixty pages of philosophy, Rand gets back to doing what she does best: showing a world in freefall and the people trying to survive it.
After the devastating events of the previous chapter, Chapter 7 slows down just enough to let you feel the wreckage. Directive 10-289 is now in effect. The country is locked in place. And the people who made it work are starting to disappear.
The very first line of Atlas Shrugged is a question. “Who is John Galt?” And the way Rand drops it on us tells you everything about the world she’s building.