The United States may have just come to an end in this exciting post-apocalyptic, dystopian thriller about several electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attacks all at once. Not only has the electrical grid come crashing down, but all other critical infrastructures of the country have ceased to exist, leaving the country a vast wasteland, where only the ruthless and resourceful survive. Jim Burkett is stuck on a business trip when it all happens, and he must battle prison breaks, food riots, criminal gangs, looters, cannibals, terrorist sleeper cells, nuclear fallout, and otherwise total anarchy in his quest to get home to his family. Will he make it?
In the middle of this excellent lesson on survival is a wonderful novel of courage, determination, and love of family. My status in Goodreads may be confusing, because I keep coming back to read parts of it again, and again. I cannot recommend this for education enough, and yet it's still very entertaining too.
it's an OK read but with too many mistakes and things that no one would do. You get a bit upset with the character or the author. If getting it cheap it's worth reading but not my first choice for an EMP book.