The EMP killed America in a single Tuesday evening flicker. No blast. No warning. Just a dead grid, dead cars, dead phones, and 300 million people discovering that civilization was never a possession. It was a performance. And the performance had stopped.
Two years later, the survivors of the Great Plains have organized into two new nations locked in total war.
In the east: the Rottorio Family. A crime dynasty that fed a dying city when no one else would, and now commands 60,000 soldiers from the ruins of Lincoln, Nebraska. Their granaries are full. Their hangings are public. Their order flows down from one man.
In the west: the Union of Allied City-States. Forty free towns, 100,000 rifles, and a Charter signed by lamplight, fighting to prove that consent can survive the end of the world.
Between them: two hundred miles of trenches, barbed wire harvested from dead cattle country, and a no man's land where the corn grows wild because no one can harvest it.
Sam Menfries sold crop insurance before the pulse. Now he stands on a firing step with his Mini-14, counting mortar rounds as the Family's legions come in waves across the dead ground. When a single morning takes everything from him, Sam is pulled into an elite squad of saboteurs and sent eleven miles behind enemy lines, where he will discover the war's most dangerous truth:
The enemy is not a monster. The enemy is us, two bad years removed.
Captured, interrogated, and brought before the spider himself, Sam becomes the one man on the front who has stood on both parapets. And what he carries back across the wire could end the war, or get him executed by both sides.
In EMP: Trench Warfare, you'll get to read:
- Brutal, unflinching combat in the style of WWI memoirs, from human wave assaults and mortar bombardments to hand-to-hand fighting in the trenches, written with the realism fans of the genre demand
- A chillingly plausible collapse, grounded in real congressional EMP commission findings and the hard lessons of Petersburg, the Somme, and modern Ukraine
- Authentic weapons and gritty logistics: ARs, AKs, SKSs, Mini-14s, FN FALs, HK G3s, lever guns, and bolt action hunting rifles in the hands of ordinary Americans, where battles are won and lost over a pallet of primers
- Characters who will break your heart, from a sergeant with four seconds in his coat pocket to an enemy's daughter who refuses to kneel
Book One of the After the EMP series. The whistles are blowing. See you in the trenches.
