It has been 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.
Months before publication, One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. that may already be in the hands of our enemies. A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP). 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, that sends America back to the Dark Ages. Forstchen brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real. In One Second After, New York Times bestselling author William R. This is Hollywood B movie script fodder.Audiobook Length: 13 hours and 17 minutes And John would occasionally slip into a southern drawl, which was quite jarring - definitely a different from the last narrator.Īfter writing this review, I realized how much I was disappointed by this sequel. The accents were pretty over the top for many characters. How did the narrator detract from the book? One Second After had an intellectual component, this is all action - the John/Rambo show. Probably not, it's not a worthy successor to One Second After. Would you recommend One Year After to your friends? Why or why not? In general, this is an 'action-based' follow up, but lacks depth, and the discussion of logistics that played such an important role in One Second After. People in the South know what a generator is. By now, you'd think they'd have dozens of windmills up and running, or some paddle wheels hooked up to alternators, and certainly some emergency power via one of the many running motors. WTH, they've had running cars since day two, so they could've had power since day two. It's a year after, they still have no electricity, and their approach is to read about Tesla and build a dam with hand-built generators.
There's the manual drill for the dentist, the switchboard dug out of someone's basement, and they can make ether. I thought technology was discussed pretty well in One Second After, but things seem pretty superficial here. The new guys are Evil, with a capital 'E'. The conflict with the new administrator is so black and white, that it's uninteresting. Yes, we get the occasional history reference, but he's like a bull in a china shop all the time. His initial trip to see the new administrator was so over the top, that it was hard to listen to - it just doesn't seem like the same old John. John is FAR less astute in this book than he was in One Second After. While the first book was well crafted, this one almost seems to have been written someone else - someone doing their own version of a follow up story. Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
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