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One Second After

by William R. Forstchen

A town facing the aftermath of an EMP attack

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A town facing the aftermath of an EMP attack

An electromagnetic pulse attack abruptly disrupts life across the United States, and the story narrows that national crisis to one North Carolina town. Its central struggle is a man’s effort to protect his family and help his community amid the collapse of familiar systems. The premise combines technological disaster with questions of local survival, placing a large-scale threat in an everyday setting. As the first book in the John Matherson series, it also opens a sequence that continues with *One Year After* and *The Final Day*.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in post-apocalyptic thrillers centered on a community’s response to crisis.
  • Readers who enjoy stories involving technological threats and family survival.
  • Readers seeking the first installment of the John Matherson series.

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Electromagnetic pulse and technological disruptionCommunity survivalFamily protectionNational crisis

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Book overview

A post-apocalyptic thriller of the after effects in the United States after a terrifying terrorist attack using electromagnetic pulse weapons.

New York Times
best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real...a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages...A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP). A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies.

Months before publication, One Second After has already been cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book already being discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire United States, literally within one second. It is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America. In the tradition of On the Beach, Fail Safe and Testament, this book, set in a typical American town, is a dire warning of what might be our future...and our end.

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#1 One Second After
#2 One Year After
#3 The Final Day

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