This edition of the book is the deluxe, tall rack mass market paperback. Will Matherson’s friends and neighbors be next? But “the New Regime” is already tyrannizing one nearby community. He and the people of Black Mountain protest vehemently. That hope quickly diminishes when town administrator John Matherson learns that most of the young men and women in the community are to be drafted into the “Army of National Recovery” and sent to trouble spots hundreds of miles away. The John Matherson Series 1 One Second After 2 One Year After 3 The Final Day Other Books Pillar to the Sky 48 Hours show more. The weird, beautiful, unapologetically apocalyptic Last Policeman trilogy is one of my favorite mystery series.-John Green, author of The Fault in Our. When a “federal administrator” arrives in a nearby city, they dare to hope that a new national government is finally emerging. 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, like electricity, radio communications, and medications. The story begins one year after One Second After ends, two years since nuclear weapons were detonated above the United States and brought America to its knees. Forstchen’s smash hit One Second After, the novel cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read One Year After is the New York Times bestselling follow-up to William R.
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