Five Years After
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William R. Forstchen. (2023). Five Years After. Tor Publishing Group.

William R. Forstchen. 2023. Five Years After. Tor Publishing Group.

William R. Forstchen, Five Years After. Tor Publishing Group, 2023.

William R. Forstchen. Five Years After. Tor Publishing Group, 2023.

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   • bioText: William R. Forstchen is the author of the New York Times bestseller One Second After and We Look Like Men of War, among numerous other books in diverse subjects ranging from history to science fiction. He has co-authored several books with Newt Gingrich, including Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War, Pearl Harbor, Days of Infamy, To Try Men's Souls and Valley Forge. Forstchen holds a Ph.D. in History from Purdue University, with specializations in military history and the history of technology. He is currently a Faculty Fellow and Professor of History at Montreat College, near Asheville North Carolina. He is a pilot and flies an original WWII recon "warbird." He resides near Asheville with his daughter Meghan.
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From William R. Forstchen, the New York Times bestselling author of the One Second After series, comes Five Years After, a near-future thriller where John Matherson must contend with new threats to the fragile civilization that he helped rebuild.
Five years after The Final Day, the Republic of New America has all but collapsed into regional powers and the world at large is struggling to remain stable as regional conflicts ravage the post EMP landscape. After several years attempting to lead a quiet life, John Matherson receives the news that the President is dying from a possible assassination attempt, and is asked to step in to negotiate with what appears to be a new military power hidden in the wreckage of the world.
Pulled back into the fray, John struggles to hold the tottering Republic together. Facing threats on multiple fronts, he races against time to stop another EMP attack on the former United States and China, putting years of progress at risk. With so much of his work under threat, John must find the strength within to start over, so that he can save the country and the people that he holds dear from even greater calamity.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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   • source: Ward Larsen, winner of eight major awards and USA Today bestselling author of Deep Fake
   • content: "Forstchen is a rare storyteller who not only entertains, but also conveys a vital message. He reminds us how much we've forgotten--how to subsist, how to fight, and how to live. Five Years After is a veritable guidebook for surviving the apocalypse--and better yet, how to avoid it."
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   • source: Kathleen O'Neal-Gear and W. Michael Gear, award-winning, New York Times bestselling authors of The People of the Earth series and Dissolution
   • content: "With One Second After, William Forstchen redefined and elevated the genre of apocalyptic fiction. Now, with the release of Five Years After he raises the bar once more. John Matherson faces his most diabolical antagonist yet, when he he's thrust into a deadly game of wits when a secret cabal of government survivors unleash global holocaust. To save the world, John must embrace the unthinkable, and live with the consequences forever. This is edge-of-the-seat fiction at its finest!"
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   • source: W.E.B. Griffin & William E. Butterworth IV, New York Times bestselling authors, on One Second After
   • content: "The only thing more terrifying than this masterfully crafted story is the possibility of it actually happening--and not a damn thing being done to protect us."
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   • source: Stephen Coonts, New York Times bestselling author, on One Year After
   • content: "Forstchen is the prophet of a new Dark Age. The wise will listen."
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     August 28, 2023
     Forstchen’s dull fourth postapocalyptic thriller featuring army veteran John Matherson (after 2017’s The Final Day) doesn’t take long to run out of steam. Five years after a devastating electromagnetic pulse attack knocked out power in the U.S. and led to the country’s dissolution, the New Republic of America, headed by President Robert Scales, is trying to reunite the fragmented nation from its headquarters in Raven Rock, Pa. Dying of cancer, Scales calls on his friend John Matherson—the republic’s nominal VP, who’s been running a college in a nearby small town—for help. Matherson takes a meeting with Gen. Joshua Lawrence at the Raven Rock facility in Scales’s stead, only to learn that Lawrence is running a better-supplied operation to seize control of the country. Lawrence hands Matherson a letter for Scales, demanding the New Republic of America’s unconditional surrender to Lawrence’s forces within 48 hours. The prospect of a violent civil war isn’t the only peril Matherson has to grapple with: a short time later, he learns that a deadly virus, rumored to have originated in China, has reached local shores. Two-dimensional characters and a ridiculous denouement make Forstchen’s vision of the future difficult to swallow. Readers intrigued by the premise would be better served by Elliot Ackerman and Adm. James Stavradis’s 2034.

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Five years after The Final Day, the Republic of New America has all but collapsed into regional powers and the world at large is struggling to remain stable as regional conflicts ravage the post EMP landscape. After several years attempting to lead a quiet life, John Matherson receives the news that the President is dying from a possible assassination attempt, and is asked to step in to negotiate with what appears to be a new military power hidden in the wreckage of the world.
Pulled back into the fray, John struggles to hold the tottering Republic together. Facing threats on multiple fronts, he races against time to stop another EMP attack on the former United States and China, putting years of...

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