![]() ![]() A well-trained and seasoned militia of local residents, mostly teens, polices the borders of the community. John Matherson, now the town administrator, works to stabilize his community, and safeguard its citizens from danger. Black Mountain is beginning to recover, recreating some of those things taken for granted – stable food supply, electricity, communications, and medicine. Now Forstchen returns with ONE YEAR AFTER, picking up just one year after the previous book ends. The world as we know it is gone and the survivors must create a new way of life, with all the benefits of modern society cast into the ash heap of history.The book is about a real threat to our way of life, and clearly demonstrates what “could happen.” It is a book of survival – moving with heart and realism. John Matherson, a retired Army colonel, now a history professor living in Black Mountain, heads a struggling community that has been thrown back into the middle ages, suffering from starvation, disease, war, and countless deaths. The EMP (electromagnetic pulse) fries the power grid, all electronics, and all vehicles built after the 1960s. Months before its publication this book was cited on the floor of Congress “as a book all Americans should read.” It tells the grim story of how a small community in Black Mountain, NC deals with the aftermath of a nuclear attack on America. I wish we still had some – I’d strongly urge you to read it. Six years ago I read a book by William R. ![]()
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