![]() Focusing in on the basics, Forstchen narrates the plight of the people of the town as they soon realize they have been thrust back to a 19th Century level of existence, without the skills or tools to manage.įorstchen doesn’t shy away from hard truths. There follows the struggle of Matherson and the town to survive over the next year. ![]() What starts as an average day quickly spirals downward when all electrical appliances, cars and cellphones suddenly cease to function. Professor John Matherson, a retired Army officer, lives in Black Mountain with his daughters and dogs, teaching at the local Montreat College. ![]() One Second After deals with the trials and tragedies suffered in the small town of Black Mountain after an EMP attack disables the North American electrical grid. ![]() Forstchen’s novel is as solid as it gets. Unlike so much survival fiction, this book is not a poorly written political soapbox or a how-to manual disguised as fiction. Forstchen’s One Second After, you are doing yourself a disservice. ![]() Whether you live in a bunker or are just an armchair survivalist, if you haven’t read William R. Perhaps a future history, that should be thought provoking and yes even terrifying for all of us.” “Though this book is a work of fiction, it is also a work of fact. Newt Gingrich, William Forstchen’s co-author on a number of alternate history novels, sets the tone for One Second After with his forward to the book. ![]()
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