Forstchen’s novel One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. Will John and his people accept the new, autocratic regime? Or will revolution rip the fledgling nation apart at the seams? General Bob Scales, John’s old commanding officer and closest friend from prewar days, is sent to bring John into line. John fears he and his town will be targets. Army has been deployed to suppress rebellion in the remaining states. The Constitution is no longer in effect, and what’s left of the U.S. A new, aggressive government announces that it’s taking over and ceding large portions of the country to China and Mexico. This period of relative stability doesn’t last long. Now, after defeating a new, tyrannical federal government, John Matherson and his community intend to restore their world to what it was before the EMP apocalypse. Since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States more than two years ago, the small town of Black Mountain, North Carolina has suffered famine, civil war, and countless deaths. A major release in the New York Times bestselling One Second After series, set in an alternate America rebuilding after an electromagnetic pulse, this is William R.
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