One year after / William R. Forstchen.

First mass market edition

9780765376718 (paperback)
0765376717 (paperback)

New York, NY : Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 2016.

©2015

English

431 pages ; 20 cm

Fortschen

813/.6

Months before publication, William R. Forstchen's One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. Hundreds of thousands of people have read the tale. One Year After is the thrilling follow-up to that smash hit. The story picks up a year after One Second After ends, two years since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States brought America to its knees. After suffering starvation, war, and countless deaths, the survivors of Black Mountain, North Carolina, are beginning to piece back together the technologies they had once taken for granted: electricity, radio communications, and medications. They cling to the hope that a new national government is finally emerging. Then comes word that most of the young men and women of the community are to be drafted into an "Army of National Recovery" and sent to trouble spots hundreds of miles away. When town administrator John Matherson protests the draft, he's offered a deal: leave Black Mountain and enter national service, and the draft will be reduced. But the brutal suppression of a neighboring community under its new federal administrator and the troops accompanying him suggests that all is not as it should be with this burgeoning government.
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. When a 'federal administrator' arrives in a nearby city, they dare to hope that a new national government is finally emerging. Progress is halted when the young men and women in the community are drafted into the 'Army of National Recovery.' Town administrator John Matherson and the people of Black Mountain protest vehemently. But 'the New Regime' is already tyrannizing one nearby community, and it seems that Matherson's friends and neighbors will be next.

Sequel to: One second after.

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