One Second After

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St. Martin's Press, Apr 26, 2011 - Fiction - 511 pages

A post-apocalyptic thriller of the after effects in the United States after a terrifying terrorist attack using electromagnetic pulse weapons.

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.

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
19
Section 3
20
Section 4
21
Section 5
25
Section 6
28
Section 7
35
Section 8
37
Section 19
271
Section 20
274
Section 21
276
Section 22
277
Section 23
278
Section 24
280
Section 25
284
Section 26
301

Section 9
44
Section 10
52
Section 11
59
Section 12
86
Section 13
111
Section 14
152
Section 15
169
Section 16
205
Section 17
247
Section 18
252
Section 27
355
Section 28
403
Section 29
419
Section 30
460
Section 31
482
Section 32
505
Section 33
510
Section 34
511
Section 35
Copyright

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About the author (2011)

Writer and educator William R. Forstchen was born in New Jersey in 1950. He received a B.A. from Rider College in Lawrenceville, New Jersey and a M.A. in European history and a Ph.D. in military history from Purdue University. Forstchen teaches at Montreat College in Asheville, North Carolina. Forstchen uses his knowledge of military history to create science fiction stories of other universes and societies. His series include Gamestar Wars, Ice Prophet, and The Lost Regiment. He is also the co-author with Newt Gingrich of 1945, an alternative history of World War II. His other stand-alone novels include The Four Magics, Doctors of the Night, One Second After and its sequel, One Year After which hit the New York Times Bestseller list in September 2015.