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Read Online Download. Forstchen by William R. Hot Pillar to the Sky by William R. Great book, One Second After pdf is enough to raise the goose bumps alone. Add a review Your Rating: Your Comment:. Now, after defeating a new, tyrannical federal government, John Matherson and his community intend to restore their world to what it was before the EMP apocalypse.

For the most part, they are succeeding. Other Tor books by William R. After months of suffering starvation, war, and countless deaths, the survivors of Black Mountain, North Carolina, are beginning to recover technology and supplies they had once taken for granted, like electricity, radio communications, and medications. He and the people of Black Mountain protest vehemently.

Forstchen's The Final Day. Since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States more than two years ago, the small town of Black Mountain, North Carolina has suffered famine, civil war, and countless deaths. Army has been deployed to suppress rebellion in the remaining states. John fears he and his town will be targets.

Will John and his people accept the new, autocratic regime? Or will revolution rip the fledgling nation apart at the seams? Months before publication, William R. From the New York Times bestselling author of the smash hit One Second After series comes 48 Hours, a nail-biting and prescient thriller about a solar storm with the power to destroy the world's electrical infrastructure In 48 hours, the Earth will be hit by a Coronal Mass Ejection CME from the Sun, a "Carrington Event" that has the power to shut down and possibly destroy the world's electrical infrastructure.

To try and prevent permanent damage, everything goes dark prior to the hit: global communications are shut down; hospital emergency generators are disconnected; the entire internet, media broadcasting, and cell phone systems are turned off. Will the world's population successfully defend itself in the wake of the CME, or will mass panic lead to the breakdown of society as we know it?

William R. Forstchen is at his best in 48 Hours, a tale of the resilience of American citizens when faced with a crisis. He finds the unfindable, but she's terribly good at hiding Penny Dunsworth is dead.

Well, she should be-a piece of her certainly is. The broken girl she once was no longer exists. Now a trained assassin for The League, she's turned into the worst nightmare for the monsters who once haunted her every waking moment. She has to be That is if she can keep it from catching up.

Luca Puzza is chasing a ghost. He's never once been able to catch her in the five years that he spent searching. Until now. The promise he made to find the girl who disappeared without a trace turned into an obsession that changed his life. But the woman he was looking for is only a shadow of who he finds. She's dangerous One can only play with monsters for so long before they start to notice you're not the same.

In this world, predators can just as easily become prey. Except she stopped being a victim long ago. And it's time for this to end. The books should be read in order. The trilogy discusses triggering topics that may be uncomfortable for some. Please be advised and read at your own discretion. He was only seven when the big riots hit Newark in '67, dividing off for a generation any thought of what some called diversity. Italians stuck to their neighborhoods, Poles and the Irish to theirs, Hispanics to theirs, blacks to theirs, and God save you if you got caught in the wrong neighborhood after dark, and usually in daylight as well.

The interstate, at this instant, had become the wrong neighborhood. The way the four construction workers stood and gazed at him and the car—the one car with a motor still running—was triggering a warning. One of them was obviously drunk, the type that struck John as a belligerent drunk. Something was changing, had changed, in just the last few hours. If alone, John might have chanced it, and chances were nothing at all would go wrong, but he was a father; his two girls and his mother-in-law would be in that car.

We'll push her over for you; then we'll climb over and you can give us a lift as well. The drunk laughed softly. John felt trapped, especially as he spared a quick glance back to Jennifer. Suppose the car was taken right now; it would be a long haul back for her. At that moment he caught a glance from the truck driver. There was a slight nod and ever so casually he let his right hand, which had been concealed behind his back, drift into view.

He was holding a light-caliber pistol. There was a moment of gut tightening for John, but the exchange of glances said it all. You just walk a little less than a mile to the west and you'll find food and shelter. The doors slammed behind them. John backed up to the car, the drunk had a hard time negotiating his footing. John slipped into the driver's seat, slammed into reverse, and floored it.

Flooring the gas, John continued to back up all the way to the turnoff to their road, threw the gear into forward, and roared up the dirt road. Especially with those men around her. He could sense their accusation, that Dad had chickened out. He shook his head and said nothing. He pulled into the driveway, the dogs started to bound around him but then, sensing his mood, shifted their attention to Jennifer and Elizabeth.

Remember the hurricane last year when we all piled into my bedroom? It'll be like that tonight. Elizabeth, get out the Coleman lantern; you know how to light it. Jennifer, you help her. Don't keep the medication out of the fridge any longer than you have to. John fished in his pocket for a cigarette, pulled it out, and lit it. I go down to that highway and those bastards might take this car. The woman? Does it bother you? And there was another one with a small child.

They could be raped. Those guys weren't all that bad. The drunk was out of hand; the loudmouth one was just trying to show off in front of his buddies and the woman. Sure, it's strange, our car running, the others not, and if I went back down they'd be tempted to take it. Or worse yet, I'd be stuck all night running a shuttle service for everyone stalled on the highway, and running into yet more drunks with a bad attitude. No, too many others down there are OK.

Everyone else is sober; the truck driver down there had a gun in his hand, though you might not of seen it. He'll keep order. That woman and the others will be OK. I wouldn't worry about that yet. The girls would love it. I don't like the idea of you driving around alone at night in this monster," and as he spoke he slapped the hood of the Edsel. It was dark enough now he couldn't see her face, but he could sense her voice. She was afraid. He looked around.

It teas dark. There wasn't a single light down in the town, except for what appeared to be the flicker of a Coleman lamp, some candles. All the houses rimming the valley were dark as well. No reflected lights from the highway, none of the annoying high-intensity lithium glare from the service stations at the exit, not a light showing from the skyline of Asheville.

There was a dull red glow, what looked to be the fire up on the side of the mountain towards Craggy Dome. The stars arced the heavens with a magnificent splendor. He hadn't seen stars like this since being out in the desert in Saudi Arabia. There was absolutely no ambient light to drown the stars out. It was magnificent and, he found, calming as well. I'll be along in a minute. From inside the house he could now see the glare of the Coleman and, a moment later, heard laughter, which was reassuring.

He finished the second cigarette and let it drop, watching as it glowed on the concrete pavement of the driveway. It slowly winked out. Opening the door of his Talon, he slipped in and turned the switch. Nothing, not even a stutter from the starter motor, no dashboard lights. He reached under the seat, pulled out a heavy six D-cell flashlight, and flicked the switch.

It came on. When he went into the house the girls were already making a game out of camping out. I found the old one, though, and we used that. She's OK. The new testing kit was a high-tech marvel with a built-in computer that kept a downloadable record of her blood levels.

In another week she was supposed to be fitted out with one of the new implanted insulin pumps. He took a deep breath.

Get your sister settled in and let's call it a night. We went four days then and by the end of it we were asleep when it got dark and up at dawn. Clutched under her arm was her beloved Rabs, the stuffed rabbit that Bob and Barbara gave to her the day she was born and which had been Jennifer's steadfast companion for twelve years.

Once a fuzzy white, old Rabs was now a sort of permanent dingy gray. Rabs had survived much, upset stomachs, once being left behind at a restaurant and the family drove nearly a hundred miles back to retrieve him while Jennifer cried every mile of the way, a kidnapping by a neighbor's dog, with Dad then spending two days prowling the woods looking for him. He was patched, worn smooth in places, and though she was twelve today, Rabs was still her buddy and John suspected always would be.

The dogs had finished up chomping down their dinner and he let them out for their evening run. Ginger was a bit nervous going out, since usually he'd throw on the spotlights for them. At this time of year bears with their newborn cubs were wandering about, raccoons were out, and the sight of either would nearly trigger a heart attack.

She did her business quickly and darted back in, settling down at Jennifer's feet. If not, no school. Now get to sleep. He sat down for a moment at his desk, setting the flashlight on end so that the beam pointed to the ceiling, filling the room with a reflected glow. The office had always driven Mary crazy. She expected "better" of a military man to which his retort always was that she had also married a professor. Stacks of paper were piled up on either side of his desk, filed, he used to say, by "geological strata.

The other walls were lined with photos, his framed degrees, Mary's degree, pictures of the kids. He stood gazing at the bookshelf for a moment, pulled several books from the outer layer aside, found what he wanted, and fished the volume out.

He had not opened it in years, not since leaving the war college. Sitting down and propping the book on his knees, he held the flashlight with one hand, checked the chapter headings of the work, a mids dot-matrix computer printout, then sat back and read for half an hour.

He finally put the report down on his desk. Behind him was a locked cabinet, and opening his desk, he pulled out a single key, unlocked the cabinet, and swung the door open. He reached in, hesitated for a second, deciding which one, then pulled out his pump gauge bird gun. From the ammunition rack he opened up a box of bird shot, and slipped three rounds in. The bird shot was not a killing load, except at very close range, but definitely a deterrent.

Next was the pistol. It was, he knew, an eccentric touch. A cap-and-ball Colt Dragoon. A big, heavy mother of a gun, the sight of it enough to scare the crap out of most drunks. John had actually been forced to use it once for real, back in his undergraduate days, before he met Mary. He was living off campus, in a farmhouse shared with half a dozen other guys, all of them rather hippieish that year, long haired, the year he definitely smoked a little too much dope.

Some local good old boys had taken a distinct dislike to "long-haired faggots" living nearby and one night did a "drive-by," blowing out the kitchen door with a load of buckshot, yelling for the faggots to come out and get what they deserved.

His roommates were freaked, one of them cried that they were in the middle of Deliverance. But their attackers had not counted on one of the "faggots" being from New Jersey, already into Civil War reenacting, and someone who knew guns.

He had come out, Dragoon revolver in hand, leveled it, and fired off two rounds of his cannon. Not aiming to kill, just to make them duck a bit. After pumping out the two rounds, he lowered his aim straight at the chest of the redneck with the shotgun. The rednecks piled into their truck and disappeared in one helluva hurry, his buddies standing on the porch, in awe as he walked back, feeling more than a little like Gary Cooper in High Noon.

What had truly scared him? The realization that he was ready to kill one of the bastards if they had tried to venture another shot. Reflecting on it later, he didn't like that feeling at all, and hoped he'd never have it again. The following morning, a Saturday, the landlord had come over with a case of beer, asked to see this now-legendary gun, and said that "you boys got some respect now. John recognized him, there was a tense moment, and the redneck broke out laughing, brought John a beer, and told everyone the story, concluding with "this Yankee boy's OK," and they shook hands.

Damn, even then he did love the South. The revolver was already loaded, and he put it on his desk. He suddenly realized someone was in the room and looked up. It was Jen in the doorway. Without taking his shoes off, John stretched out on the sofa in his office, laying the shotgun down on the floor by his side.

It was a long couple of hours before he finally drifted to sleep. As he began to fall asleep, Zach disengaged himself from Jennifer's embrace, came out to the office, and with a sigh settled down by John's side. He fumbled for the shotgun, got half to his feet, and heard Elizabeth cursing.

Jennifer was sitting up, Rabs tucked under her arm, smiling. Coffee, damn it, coffee. He pulled the foil bag down, the paper filter, made the coffee extra strong, filled the pot up, poured it in, and flicked the switch.

He stood there like an idiot for a good minute before the realization hit. Fumbling in his pocket, he got out a cigarette and lit it. Though he was watching the pot, it finally did come to a boil, and a minute later he had a cup, doing it the old way he had learned in the Boy Scouts: throw a couple of spoonfuls of coffee into the cup, pour the hot water in, and to hell with the grinds.

He mixed a second cup and she looked at it with disdain. She went back into the kitchen and opened the fridge, sniffing the plastic jug of milk after opening it, then came back out on the porch, taking a sip.

Never liked those Mr. Coffee machines. The coffee and cigarette were working their magic, bringing him awake. Unlike the vast majority of men who had made careers in the army, he had never adjusted to early morning rising and hated all those who could do it, especially the cheerful ones. His instinct always was to be a night owl, to go to sleep around two or three, then wake up at nine or ten for his first lecture at eleven.

The college had learned that quickly and never scheduled a class for him prior to that time. But he did have to admit, mornings were beautiful and he regretted missing them at times. Mary had been a morning person. He thought about her. The memory was too painful and he let it drop. He nodded. The flame had spread out, a plume of smoke flattening out, then drifting down towards the Asheville reservoir in the valley below.

Looked like a hundred acres or more. Far in the distance, out on the distant horizon, he saw two more plumes of smoke from fires. The world was silent, no traffic; down in Black Mountain nothing was moving. Nothing had changed. Jennifer came out on the porch as well, Rabs tucked under her arm. She looked so adorable. When asleep, or half-awake as she was now, there was still that certain look, the eyes of a baby still there. Everyone will be down there; I want to see what's happening.

It's the 20 gauge, so don't be afraid of it. The safety is off, but I don't have a round chambered in it. So if need be, pump and then shoot. I think something serious has gone down. There's no power, nothing. But if it's a stranger, I want you to stand in the doorway, but use the frame to cover yourself. Let them see you have a gun pointed in their direction. Don't take any bullshit or con lines. I don't care how pathetic they might look. If they're looking for a phone, water, help, just tell them to walk on into town and there'll be people there to help them.

Got it? None of this warning-shot crap. You aim straight at their midsection and squeeze. If it's more than one man, drop the one closest to you, or anyone armed. And remember what I said about what was most dangerous. Mary had always said it was such a sexist line. You make it clear you're not taking," John hesitated, "not taking any shit and chances are you'll go through life and never have to pull a trigger.

Keep Jennifer close by; if Pat comes up to play, so much the better. Jen was inside. I think you used to call it past first base. All the "female"-related issues he had left to the care of Grandma Jen, including "the talks," other than the traditional old-style father routine of glaring at any boy who started to hang around. John knew he wasn't much of a father for this new century, maybe a bit old-fashioned, but that was the way he was raised.

We lost Mom, but you lost your wife, your friend and companion. Jennifer and I, we're filling in for some of the loss, and down deep you hate the thought that we're growing up and, in doing that, eventually we're moving away from you as well. But it's the truth, Dad. It's OK. He sniffled a bit, nodded, then smiled.

Wise beyond her years. Used to throw Tyler for a loop sometimes. It was cooling, but that didn't matter, though two cups and two cigarettes without a breakfast did make his stomach feel a bit jumpy.

The road was empty, except for a lone trucker, sitting in his cab, door open, puffing on a cigar, the driver waving to John. It was the guy from the night before, and the sight of him was a reassurance. John felt a bit of relief, fearful that something ugly might have indeed happened down here during the night, but all was quiet, no sign of any problems. Coming up State Street, he passed the elementary school.

The front door was propped open, and for a second he wondered if indeed school was open today but then realized that all the school buses were still parked in the lot. There was a hand-lettered sign out front: "Emergency Shelter. Typical of Pete, always there for the town.

John honked and Pete looked up in surprise, as did those on the line, and Pete waved. The light up ahead was off and John had to slow down, half a dozen cars blocking the road. It forced him to swing over to the eastbound side and he came to a stop first, looking both ways. It felt absurd doing it. Of course there was no traffic in sight other than all the stalled cars at the intersection.

He weaved around, turned right, and pulled into Smiley's convenience store, got out of the car, and walked in. Two days after "that day" the FBI had shown up and arrested him, claiming that there was a report that he had made a statement in support of the attack and would love to help out if anything was tried locally.

The arrest, to John's delight, had triggered a firestorm. The town turned out, rallied support, harassed the daylights out of the district's congressman to investigate, and finally Hamid had returned, a block party being held for him. On the morning after his return, a huge hand-lettered sign was plastered across the window of his store. God bless a l l of you, m y friends. People coming in from the highway.

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