Retired colonel John Matherson lives quietly with his family in a small Carolina town, teaching at a Christian college and slowly recovering from his wife's untimely death. But then the whole world is turned upside down, as a terrorist attack on the U.S. shuts down all computerized devices in the nation, which in this modern life includes every manner of electronics, even cars. Along with the whole country, John and his neighbors have to learn to rebuild their lives without any of the modern conveniences they've been used to.
I've read an astonishingly similar book series on this subject before, the Restoration Series by Terri Blackstock (Last Light, Night Light, True Light, and Dawn's Light), but I enjoyed this book as well, as a novel. However...
Although both sets of books are, of course, fiction, the Terri Blackstock series does not try to tell the reader that its apocalyptic story of the future is probable. By contrast, One Second After is presented as a cautionary tale, with a political forward by Newt Gingrich that I admittedly didn't read, and an afterward that tells the reader how the government should be guarding us against the terrible future predicted in the story. I'm not sure if this scare-mongering is necessary or true.
Still, this was an interesting story, and I will be checking out the sequel soon.
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