One second later.

It only takes a moment... and the world as we know it is in ruins

Retired Army officer John Matherson moved with his family to Black Mountain, North Carolina. Recently widowed John and his two daughters live in a friendly small-town routine. One day, however, something disrupts it - all the electrical appliances suddenly stop working. Could it be a major blackout? But the truth is harsher than it seems - behind everything is an EMP explosion, an electromagnetic bomb. And the blackout will be far from temporary...

Who will survive in a country that is rapidly slipping from prosperity into an archaic society? The drugs run out, the violent looters begin to organize into gangs, and the first rumors and speculations about the originators of the attack appear. Day by day passes from the fall into the dark times until the year closes. A year of John's struggle to preserve his family, his life, his future...

This gripping post-apocalyptic novel surprises the reader with its believability and doesn't let go until the last page.