One Year After
A John Matherson Novel
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Publisher Description
One Year After is the New York Times bestselling follow-up to William R. Forstchen’s smash hit One Second After, the novel cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read
The story begins one year after One Second After ends, two years since nuclear weapons were detonated above the United States and brought America to its knees. After months of suffering starvation, war, and countless deaths, the survivors of Black Mountain, North Carolina, are beginning to recover technology and supplies they had once taken for granted, like electricity, radio communications, and medications. When a “federal administrator” arrives in a nearby city, they dare to hope that a new national government is finally emerging.
That hope quickly diminishes when town administrator John Matherson learns that most of the young men and women in the community are to be drafted into the “Army of National Recovery” and sent to trouble spots hundreds of miles away. He and the people of Black Mountain protest vehemently. But “the New Regime” is already tyrannizing one nearby community.
Will Matherson’s friends and neighbors be next?
The John Matherson Series
#1 One Second After
#2 One Year After
#3 The Final Day
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of bestseller Forstchen's stirring sequel to 2009's One Second After, 730 days have passed since EMP weapons destroyed nearly all electronic equipment in the continental U.S. After the initial violence and starvation, the community of Black Mountain, N.C., led by history professor and former colonel John Matherson, now faces a different sort of challenge. The federal government, sheltered in Cold War bunkers in Virginia, has instituted a draft. The new federal district administrator in Asheville offers John a position as major in the Army of National Recovery and a reduction in the Black Mountain draft, if John will help suppress a renegade group in the nearby mountains. John and his people must choose whether to side with their neighbors, painted as just plain folks struggling to survive, or the feds, whom John isn't sure he can trust. Readers should be prepared for some heavy-handed political commentary, but fans of Forstchen's historical novels coauthored with Newt Gingrich will be satisfied.
Customer Reviews
It's good
If you liked the first one it's more of the same.
Less frightening than the likely reality
This book — the series — is less frightening than the reality of an EMP attack or a solar X-flare event similar to the 1859 Carrington event.
This book should be a warning taken seriously.
One second after
Excellent book. Really enjoyed the real life scenarios.