John J. Miller of National Review Online conducted an audio interview with William R. Forstchen, author of the just-published One Second After. It's a novel depicting what would happen after an Electromagnetic pulse [EMP] attack on the United States. Here's the publishing blurb at Amazon:
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.Me: It sounds to me like a book very much worth reading.