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Set a year after the apocalyptic nuclear detonation that brought America to its knees, One Year After shows the residents of Black Mountain, North Carolina, beginning to rebuild electricity, radio communication, and medicine. The survivors cling to hope as a nascent national government appears, only to learn that many of their young men and women are being drafted into an ‘Army of National Recovery’ and sent to distant conflict zones. When town administrator John Matherson protests the draft, he is offered a deal to leave the town in exchange for reduced conscription. However, the violent suppression of a neighboring community by federal forces hints that the emerging government may not be the restoration it promised.
First publish date: 2015
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: William R. Forstchen
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