Ultimately, though there are many exciting scenes, this is less a post-apocalyptic thriller than a book of ideas: a thoughtfully rendered, richly detailed investigation into the "What if." Like its two predecessors in the Matherson series, this new novel entertainingly blends folksy and sophisticated, small-town nostalgia and sharp futurism. Having suffered grievous personal losses in the nightmarish conflict, he is prepared to fight for the America he loves, even if that means abandoning his new wife, Makala, who's pregnant. Matherson, who has overseen inspired efforts to restore technology in his community-amazingly, those old, cobwebbed computers still work-represents a threat to the status quo. Once the most principled of leaders, Scales now is in charge of suppressing old-school patriots like Matherson in the name of assimilation. Matherson, based in a mountain community in the so-called "State of Carolina," must decide whether to trust his old friend and commanding officer Bob Scales. is "a twisted, burned-out, perverted wasteland." The ruling forces, having been thwarted in their efforts to conscript an oppressive Army of National Recovery, are on the verge of handing over large chunks of territory out west to China and Mexico. We can only serve the continental US, Alaska, and Hawaii.In the aftermath of an electromagnetic-pulse attack linked to Iran and North Korea that wiped out American cities and led to the installation of an oppressive, unconstitutional government, hard-core patriot John Matherson is called upon to lead the resistance.
Will General Scales follow orders, or might he be the crucial turning point in the quest for a re-united America? When news breaks that members of the federal government knew the EMP attack was coming long before it hit, the government might get exactly what it fears: revolution. The man sent to confront John Matherson is General Bob Scales, Matherson's old commanding officer and closest friend from prewar days.
Then the national government announces that it's ceding large portions of the country to China and Mexico that the Constitution is no longer in effect and that what's left of the US Army has been deployed to suppress rebellion in the remaining states.
After fighting their fair share of battles in their North Carolina mountain town, John Matherson and the people in his community are beginning to restore the technologies and social order that existed prior to the EMP. It's been more than two years since an EMP attack wiped out all electricity in the United States and plunged the country into darkness, starvation, and death. A major release in the ‚ New York Times ‚ bestselling One Second After series, set in an alternate America rebuilding after an electromagnetic pulse, this is William R.
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