One Second After

Author : William Forstchen

Genre : Fiction

William Forstchen’s book is the first of four in a series that provides a realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy everything electrical in the entire United States, literally within one second. This is a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after the United States is hit with an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP)—a weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies. All electronics—phones, computers, even cars are destroyed sending the country back to the Dark Ages. It makes you think a little more seriously about emergency preparedness.

The intense and invisible energy pulse cannot be sensed by people and doesn’t damage the human body. Unlike a lightning strikes an EMP explosion above the atmosphere produces damaging power surges causing simultaneous burnout and failure of electrical and electronic systems over a large area.