One Year After

William R. Forstchen

Sep 2015 · A John Matherson Novel Book 2 · Blackstone Audio Inc. · Narrated by Bronson Pinchot

About this audiobook

The thrilling follow-up to the New York Times bestselling novel One Second After

Months before publication, One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at the dangers of EMPs. An EMP is a weapon with the power to destroy the entire United States in a single act of terrorism, in a single second; indeed, it is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America. One Second After was a dire warning of what might be our future ... and our end.

One Year After returns to the small town of Black Mountain and the man who struggled to rebuild it in the wake of devastation: John Matherson. It is a thrilling follow-up and should delight fans in every way.

Ratings and reviews

I found the story deeply enthralling and emotional. I laughed and cried. I cringed only once or twice at very forgivable/understandable conservative premises of the author. The auther does a masterful job threading all the political landmines here, sticking to character and story development. The antagonist is complex, the protagonist is relatable. The world illustrated is colorful and, somehow, it's the small town you already know... gtg. I'm off to improve my emergency supplies. Just in case;)

Good follow up to One Second After but some of the magic is lost with the new reader. Everyone suddenly has a thick southern accent but John is supposed to be from the New England area. I wish they had gotten Joe Barrett back.

One Second After is a better survival type book, however, One Year After held me in and was very thrilling. I only wish the readers were the same. you get used to the voices after awhile though.

About the author

William R. Forstchen is the author of the New York Times bestseller One Second After and We Look Like Men of War, among numerous other books in diverse subjects ranging from history to science fiction. He has co-authored several books with Newt Gingrich, including Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War, Pearl Harbor, Days of Infamy, To Try Men’s Souls and Valley Forge. Forstchen holds a Ph.D. in History from Purdue University, with specializations in military history and the history of technology. He is currently a Faculty Fellow and Professor of History at Montreat College, near Asheville North Carolina. He is a pilot and flies an original WWII recon "warbird." He resides near Asheville with his daughter Meghan.

Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.