One Second After by William R. Forstchen. It is right wing, gun toting, claptrap if you want it to be. Claptrap with some very suspect grammar and questionable automobile “facts”. But, I am revisiting the post-apocalyptic genre. If you get over the grammar and talk radio right wing hysteria – it is OK. It is not great literature like The Road. Just a story – in dire need of grammar-checker – designed to scare the crap out of the reader.
Our enemies were smart enough to figure out how to crash jet planes into buildings. So, I’ll accept that “they” could set off an EMP generating nuke. But, just as likely – the sun will flare up – big time – like on September 1, 1859 – Carrington Super Flare. But, the idea that “they” did it to us makes for better right wing, gun toting talk show hyperventilating.