Every modern electrical device is disabled, destroyed by what Matherson is beginning to suspect was an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the United States. Within hours it becomes clear that this is no ordinary blackout. (16:50) Eastern Daylight Time on the second Tuesday of May, the first day described in the book's narration, the phone lines in the town suddenly go dead, along with all the electrical appliances. He is now the widowed father of two daughters, Elizabeth and Jennifer.Īt 4:50 p.m. Army colonel and Gulf War veteran, he had moved to Black Mountain with his family when his late wife Mary, a native of the town, was dying from cancer. John Matherson is a professor of history at the local Montreat Christian College. Black Mountain is strategically located along an interstate highway and provides the water supply for the nearby city of Asheville. Although it has no large businesses, it is becoming a summer destination for people from larger cities. Background īlack Mountain, North Carolina, is a small American town, home to a college with about six hundred students. A trade paperback edition was released in November 2009.
Released in March 2009, One Second After and was ranked as number 11 on the New York Times Best Seller list in fiction in May 2009. The novel deals with an unexpected electromagnetic pulse attack on the United States as it affects the people living in and around the small American town of Black Mountain, North Carolina. One Second After is a 2009 novel by American writer William R.
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