Lightning Fall

Three terrorist attacks are launched from freighters againstthe United States. Only one fully succeeds, but in the blink of an eye all ofthe country west of the Rocky Mountains is transformed into the technological equivalentof the eighteenth century—no electricity, no computers, no electronics of anykind, or any of the amenities of modern life that depend on them. This is thestory of ordinary and extraordinary people, high and low, who struggle tosurvive in a mortally wounded nation, as America’s enemies within and withoutcircle for the kill. A Latino gangbanger becomes mayor of a devastated LosAngeles; a gay survivalist fights for his life in San Francisco; an ordinaryIndiana housewife and her three children struggle to keep their lives togetherin a crashing economy; a shrimp fisherman in Louisiana watches a mushroom cloudrise over New Orleans; the admiral in charge of the military defense of thenation faces a storm of enemies from every corner of the compass; and the presidentof the United States and the Speaker of the House of Representatives battle forsupremacy as the lives of sixty million Americans hang in the balance. Lightning Fall tells a story of terror,tragedy, and triumph that you will never forget.