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In reply to the discussion: Do You Have a Fictional Book That You Have Read Several Times? [View all]left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)You may enjoy these. I've read both and enjoyed them.
"Alas, Babylon."
Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join together to confront the darkness.
Or:
One Second After by William R. Forstchen
... .a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages...A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP). A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies.