One Year After offers touching friendships, heartbreaking scenes and examples of bravery and hope. How on Earth will humanity survive? And what in God’s name is a Reiver? Because there are a bunch of them to deal with as well. As some things seem to improve, others are still deteriorating fast. The community faces war, a ruthless politician out for blood and even a military draft. Fancy titles for people with frayed clothing and no running water but they take their duties seriously. John is the Town Administrator and Makala is Director of Public Health and Safety. Without giving too much away, John and Makala are married, Elizabeth is the mother of 14-month old Ben and the Country is still in tatters. Then, One Year After begins a year after that, which is two years after the EMP event. I guess that makes sense since One Second After took us to about the one-year mark. One Year After doesn’t begin immediately after One Second After, it actually starts off on day 730.

“Promote a troublesome thorn up and out of the way if you cannot crush him, and then, once gone, impose whatever was planned in the first place.” William R. John Matherson lost his little girl to type one diabetes, the community fought off a large gang of violent cannibals and people were dropping like flies from starvation. Most medicines are gone and nothing is being developed or produced. No electricity, most cars and electronics are useless, no delivery trucks, gas production or the internet. In book one, One Second After, the country is brought to her knees after an EMP ( Electro-Magnetic Pulse) strike. A John Matherson Novel Series Book One Recap If you’re not an Audible fan, get it on Kindle or paperback.

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