One Second After (A John Matherson Novel, 1)

EDITORIAL REVIEW:\*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.

an End-of-the-world Novel To Rank With the Stand And lucifer's Hammer

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in This Entertaining Apocalyptic Thriller From Forstchen (we Look Like Men Of War), A High-altitude Nuclear Bomb Of Uncertain Origin Explodes, Unleashing A Deadly Electromagnetic Pulse That Instantly Disables Almost Every Electrical Device In The U.s. And Elsewhere In The World. Airplanes, Most Cars, Cellphones, Refrigerators-all Are Fried As The Country Plunges Into Literal And Metaphoric Darkness. History Professor John Matherson, Who Lives With His Two Daughters In A Small North Carolina Town, Soon Figures Out What Has Happened. Aided By Local Officials, Matherson Begins To Deal With Such Long-term Effects Of The Disaster As Starvation, Disease And Roving Gangs Of Barbarians. While The Material Sometimes Threatens To Veer Into Jingoism, And Heartstrings Are Tugged A Little Too Vigorously, Fans Of Such Classics As alas, Babylon And on The Beach Will Have A Good Time As Forstchen Tackles The Obvious And Some Not-so-obvious Questions The Apocalypse Tends To Raise. Newt Gingrich Provides A Foreword. (mar.)

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"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."--BOOK JACKET Fictional/allegorical account of an EMP/electromagnetic pulse weapon taking down USA. Political commentary and/or predictive programming, and not purely unadorned 'fiction'. Foreword copyright © 2009 by Newt Gingrich; Afterword copyright © 2009 by William D. Sanders. 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