The novel is a classic apocalyptic science fiction and takes the classic theme of "after bomb." The setting is that of a typical small town in the southern United States, Fort Repose, describing the author portrays the lifestyle of the 60 United States and pointing to the social conflicts that are going to explode all over the country. The protagonist is Bragss
Randy, a young man of good family, a bachelor, who leads a comfortable life without effort and without liability. Randy is an Army reservist, he has tried the path of politics, but without success, rejected by the local community for its lukewarm attitude toward the Supreme Court (these are the years of struggle for the rights of blacks). The quiet routine
Randy and Fort Repose is destroyed in a few hours, during which the U.S. is the victim of a massive Soviet nuclear attack that leaves the town miraculously unscathed. Randy and his fellow citizens being hauled into a new world, they are missing all took for granted that goods (food, electricity, drugs ...) and new barbarism threatens the peaceful existence of the community. While there are those who can not cope with change, as the local banker who sees crumbling, with the loss of value of money, all the evidence on which he based his life, preferring to give way to suicide, the majority of the population faces , adapting to the new realities, fighting quotidinamente for survival.
follow a script well known, the events leading to the end and accelerate the maturation of Randy coming finally to shoulder its responsibility and become the guide of the whole community.
The work does not shine for some originality but reads at a good pace, caught by the rapid and exciting turn of events, the credibility and verisimilitude of the narrative description and the skill of the author.
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