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.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. It is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America. 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. A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies. 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). New York Times best selling author William R. The faster you can change your frame of reference from chocolate moose tracks or vanilla to I’m fighting for my life, the better off you’ll be.A post-apocalyptic thriller of the after effects in the United States after a terrifying terrorist attack using electromagnetic pulse weapons. For example, imagine you run out into the garage to grab ice cream from the freezer when a lurking attacker grabs you. When a tragedy occurs, part of survival is being able to adjust to the new reality quickly. When I was telling someone about this book at a recent conference, he said to me, “so, this is basic apocalypse porn, right?” However, this is not just scaring-for-the-sake-of- titillation. How would your community react? How would it deal with looters? How would it allocate the remaining insulin to the town’s few diabetics? How would hospitals and nursing homes fare without generators? What would it do with the people who are suddenly stranded on the interstate and are walking to your town to consume some of the last resources? What happens when individual supplies of heart medications run out… or – gasp! –Prozac?

FEMA isn’t going to show up with emergency supplies. (Or, with whom.) Without electricity or means of transportation, what’s left of the federal government is unable to communicate with the rest of the nation. By tracing the story of a retired army colonel turned college professor, he takes the reader through all of the possible consequences of being at war without knowing that the nation is, in fact, at war.

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