William R. Forstchen

One man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war in one second, a war based upon an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) weapon that will send America back to the Dark Ages.

One Second After

Amelia Macy

The crime, the real crime, was those who truly knew the level of threat doing nothing to prepare or prevent it.

Audrey Lord

America propaganda. But a brilliant idea for a book

Katerina 

This was a pretty interesting book, outside my normal reads but it kept my attention throughout. Highly reccomend.

This was a super interesting book, the pacing was nice and it didnt seem to far fetched. Not quite what i usually read but definitely a great read. 

shalee olsen

This book was absolutely insane! It was never on my radar and I had never even heard of it. My husband had read it and when we went on a road trip he told me we had to listen to it.

Seriously life changing. It is this man and his family and small town trying to survive after an EMP hits. This is one of my biggest fears! It was so detailed and so real life that I was crying, panicked, panicked, and completely freaking out at times. I'm sure plenty of people think that this is stupid and whatever I seriously don't even care... this book hit me deep in my core.

Ava Shaffer

The premise of this book was very interesting, but the author’s voice definitely ruined it. Not only was there a sexist comment made pretty much every chapter, but the writing style itself was weak. Forstchen spends so much detail on things that don’t matter to the story (such as which young female characters look sexy) that he forgets to adequately explain any of the major fight scenes crucial to the plot- making it a confusing and unfulfilling read.

Casie Blevins

Basically a mastabatory fantasy for the right, this novel was still oddly compelling. I eye rolled on many occasions but also got choked up towards the end. It was eye opening to see the world through the eyes of someone so thoroughly sure of their own dominance that he wrote a thinly veiled tale honoring his greatness. A few gems: To see the woman mayor call herself--literally-- the 'dumb female in the crowd' ask for his help, then step aside. Condescending asides about characters: The hippies who would surely be the first to die because they suck from the teat of the masses paying for their lifestyle. So and so dropped dead walking down his driveway because he was so out of shape. And how a huge percentage of the town dropped dead from starvation-- after enduring a 900 calorie diet. America is fat! It's all their fault! Sigh. Has the author never heard of fasting? There's more, so much more, but I've wasted enough time. This novel had good and bad points, the most important one being to point out the short sightedness of not protecting our electrical grid. In this one issue he is right, undeniably.

Nellie Sullivan

"Months before publication, William R. Forstchen's One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. Hundreds of thousands of people have read the tale. One Year After is the thrilling follow-up to that smash hit. The story picks up a year after One Second After ends, two years since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States brought America to its knees. After suffering starvation, war, and countless deaths, the survivors of Black Mountain, North Carolina, are beginning to piece back together the technologies they had once taken for granted: electricity, radio communications, and medications. They cling to the hope that a new national government is finally emerging. Then comes word that most of the young men and women of the community are to be drafted into an "Army of National Recovery" and sent to trouble spots hundreds of miles away. When town administrator John Matherson protests the draft, he's offered a deal: leave Black Mountain and enter national service, and the draft will be reduced. But the brutal suppression of a neighboring community under its new federal administrator and the troops accompanying him suggests that all is not as it should be with this burgeoning government"--

A Novel

One Year After

Regina 

A. D. Knapp

Brock

Erik Wallace

Martin Weitzel

Lorraine

Ryan McDowell

James Miller

Monica Isabella

New York Times bestselling author William R. Forstchen brings a sequel to his hit novel One Second After. Months before publication, One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at the dangers of EMPs. An EMP is a weapon with the power to destroy the entire United States in a single act of terrorism, in a single second; indeed, it is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America. In the tradition of On the Beach, Fail Safe and Testament, One Second After was a dire warning of what might be our future...and our end. Now, One Year After returns to the small town of Black Mountain, and the man who struggled so hard to rebuild it in the wake of devastation-John Matherson. It is a thrilling follow-up and should delight fans in every way.

One Second After

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