Five Years After
A John Matherson Novel
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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- $16.99
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Publisher Description
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.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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.
