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I’ve read all of William Fortschen’s books.  They’re among the best of apocalypse fiction, a genre dominated by potboilers, so naturally, I preordered this book.  My big question was if the author could write something new, especially since at first glance it appears the apocalypse in 48 Hours is very similar to the EMP found in Fortschen’s most famous book, One Second After .  Without giving the story away, I can tell you this book is quite original.  And to me, the most interesting matter that Fortschen covers, indeed the plot driver of the entire book, relates to a long-running apocalypse concern of mine.  Namely, that the government, at any level, is not our friend, and would be our enemy in any real crisis where someone has to lose.

It’s entirely obvious, upon a moment’s reflection, that in any crisis today, whether a pandemic that requires medicine, a nuclear attack that requires shelter, a famine that requires food, or an alien attack where the aliens demand human flesh to eat, that our rulers would save themselves and their cronies first, along with, to the extent possible, their own property, and certainly, as much as possible, their own power.  I think this is mostly a new thing, the result of the rot of our ruling classes , including the disappearance of duty, virtue, and noblesse oblige.   George Washington wouldn’t save himself first, but I am certain that both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton would (the latter more certainly than the former).  Oh, sure, they’d make noises about how important it was that there be “continuity of government,” and that it was all for the future greater good, but the reality is that they’d make sure they got theirs, and so would their friends.

And it’s not just the President.  For no reason I can comprehend, other than naked self-interest,  Congress strongly believes that saving Congress is important, so they, their families, their staffers, and their hangers-on would get to the front of the line.  Bureaucrats of all stripes, the poisonous fruit of the grasping administrative state , would also get served first.  After all, how could we live without a fully staffed EEOC?  And it’s not just the federal government: as Fortschen paints a vivid picture, it would be state governments as well.  Not to mention that local governments would also get in on the act.  Municipal governments mostly wouldn’t have bunkers or stockpiled food (although I bet New York and Chicago do, hidden and reserved for Bill de Blasio and Rahm Emanuel, along with their toadies).  But I’m pretty certain, for example, that if the food in the stores ran out, in most municipalities the city government, allied with the police, would use the military equipment that the federal government has stupidly handed out, to go around to homes collecting it “for equitable distribution.”  Which is one reason I occasionally run the thought experiment of how to deal with the armored personnel carrier my local police department operates. Did you know that modern APC’s can be easily pierced by standard .50 caliber rounds?  I didn’t.

It’s unfortunate that today government is not to be trusted.  Perhaps it never could have been trusted, but the difference today is that the government has enormously more power.  Power to know what’s coming, power to build to protect the people who control it, power to defend what it builds.  But that’s where we are, and at least the view of government as the enemy in a zero-sum crisis is something that people all across the political spectrum can get behind, although conservatives and libertarians are probably more inclined to this realization.  That is, it might take liberals more time to realize that when government workers and their families go to the front of the line, there won’t be a back of the line, whatever promises are being made.  And those promises would be made—and perhaps even believed, because history shows that average people will swallow almost any story if accepting it makes them able to put off the choice to fight.  A strange inertia seems to overcome most people.  Rather than shooting their way to the front of the line when the fat EPA clerk waddles, along with his family and cousins, back into the “Government Workers Only” food line for seconds, then thirds, they’ll more likely wait for the promised crumbs to be dribbled to them through the barbed-wire-topped fence.  That’s stupid.  Shoot first.

I suppose you can’t really blame government workers for putting themselves at the front.  It’s a natural human response, after all.  Self-sacrifice to benefit others is largely, or exclusively, a Western concept derived from Christianity, and an aspirational one at that.  For example, during famines in China, including those caused by Mao, it was common for parents to kill and eat their children (although often by swapping their children with others’, so they didn’t have to do it themselves), something essentially inconceivable in the West, though perhaps not any longer in these post-Christian days.  The same thing happens in North Korea today, and I suspect would be true of any culture that is not Christian (or Jewish or Muslim, who have a similar self-sacrificing ethos, though without the applicable-to-everyone demand of the Golden Rule).  Why is it inconceivable to us, though, given that sacrificing others makes utilitarian sense?  It’s because of our superior culture, where parents would rather die than contemplate such an action, and everyone knows his duty is to take one for the team.  But I don’t think this principle extends, at least today, to limit governmental self-dealing in a crisis where someone has to lose—and that’s what this book illustrates with dramatic impact.

I don’t think that this is necessarily an argument for a minimalist state.  True, certainly, the state we have now is terrible, and a minimalist state would solve the problem of self-dealing by our ruling class in a crisis.  But I am not a libertarian; the governmental structure I would prefer is not one that necessarily maximizes personal liberty, certainly not in the way of modern “liberal democracy,” but a strong state based on principles of practicality and virtue—strong, that is, in those few areas that matter, and either non-existent in most areas of life, or based around rigorous principles of subsidiarity in any matters not essential to the central government.  Albert Jay Nock would hate my vision of government, but he would entirely agree with my point about modern governmental self-protection in crises.

Still, even my Augustan-type state would be susceptible to this problem, of the human beings who make up government acting purely in their own self-interest.  Our governmental heroes, or those who used to be our governmental heroes, like George Washington, were exceptional men.  In more recent times, I suppose, there are examples of leaders in government who refused to exempt themselves from risks faced by the common people, such as Churchill and King George VI staying in London during the Blitz, or even Stalin refusing to leave Moscow in 1941 (though he kept his fast train ready). But you can’t get exceptional men, reliably at least, without a virtuous society to generate them, and so getting that society is the key to solving the problem. I can’t think of any self-sacrificing or risk taking by any member of a Western government in many decades, but I can remember the entire United States government scurrying like rats to protect themselves on 9/11, and then turning Washington, and every federal building in the universe, into a fortress, at the cost of hundreds of billions, while grabbing massive amounts of fresh power for themselves. Maybe I’d be surprised by how our government reacted in a crisis.  But I doubt it.

You won’t feel good when you’ve finished this book.  But you’ll have learned something that may be very useful to you someday, that those who should protect us will do nothing of the sort, so it’s probably worth reading.

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From the New York Times bestselling author of the smash hit One Second After series comes 48 Hours , a nail-biting and prescient thriller about a solar storm with the power to destroy the world's electrical infrastructure

In 48 hours, the Earth will be hit by a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) from the Sun, a "Carrington Event" that has the power to shut down and possibly destroy the world's electrical infrastructure. To try and prevent permanent damage, everything goes dark prior to the hit: global communications are shut down; hospital emergency generators are disconnected; the entire internet, media broadcasting, and cell phone systems are turned off. Will the world's population successfully defend itself in the wake of the CME, or will mass panic lead to the breakdown of society as we know it? William R. Forstchen is at his best in 48 Hours , a tale of the resilience of American citizens when faced with a crisis.

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William R. Fortstchen is the New York Times bestselling author of One Second After , One Year After , and The Final Day. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Purdue University, with specializations in military history and the history of technology. Forstchen is currently a faculty fellow and professor of history at Montreat College, near Asheville, North Carolina.

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What would you do if you knew that in less than 48 hours, the Earth will be struck by two back-to-back, catastrophic solar storms? That’s exactly what happens in 48 Hours by William R. Forstchen.

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I can’t begin to imagine what I would do if I was faced with this dilemma. I have always liked reading apocalyptic type thrillers. This book however truly made me think what would we all do, if we knew we had 2 days until we perished. 48 Hours is a very well written book, with very real characters. Characters that impressed me with how they handled things. Especially the main character who is completely selfless. Prior to reading this book I hadn’t read anything by William R. Forstchen. Now I have two more of his books on my reading wish list.

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In 48 hours, the Earth will be hit by a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) from the Sun, a “Carrington Event” that has the power to shut down and possibly destroy the world’s electrical infrastructure. To try and prevent permanent damage, everything goes dark prior to the hit: global communications are shut down; hospital emergency generators are disconnected; the entire internet, media broadcasting, and cell phone systems are turned off.

Will the world’s population successfully defend itself in the wake of the CME, or will mass panic lead to the breakdown of society as we know it?

William R. Forstchen is at his best in 48 Hours, a tale of the resilience of American citizens when faced with a crisis.

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Author William R. Forstchen is the New York Times bestselling author of the One Second After series. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Purdue University, with specializations in military history and the history of technology. Forstchen has made numerous appearances on Fox News, ABC, CBS and NBC as a recognized expert on Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP). He is currently a faculty fellow and professor of history at Montreat College, near Asheville, North Carolina. 

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48 Hours – Book Review

48 Hours: A Novel Audiobook Review

• Post author: Brian Hawkins
• Post published: February 21, 2020
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48 Hours Plot Intro

So the worst scenario one could imagine floats in the balance, complete worldwide devastation in the form of immediate death to every living person and thing on the surface of our planet.

The entire world becomes aware of the impending doom. As you can imagine, panic ensues as our government enacts their CG or COG ( Continuity of Government ) plans. This involves evacuating key and instrumental government clowns into deep underground shelters and facilities already in place for threats of this magnitude. These are real.

The president just smiled and continued, “As I was saying, it has always been about CG-continuity of government. Not continuity of people, of the soul of a nation – instead, just the government as if that is the nation. The president speaking to Richard Carrington

What if others refused to readily accept the ruling few’s idea of who lives and who dies? What if someone is willing to risk everything to force those in power to finally get at least one thing right – to make the moral choice.

Darren Brooks runs security for just such a place in Missouri. Actually, it’s a commercial warehouse deep below ground in an old limestone quarry, Springfield Underground .

Brian’s Overall Book Rating

48 Hours is the first book I’ve reviewed up until now that I haven’t listened to multiple times. As soon as Chirp put 48 Hours on sale I snapped it up and moved the book ahead of everything else. I moved so quickly on this book due to how much I thoroughly enjoyed the John Matherson novels by William Forschen.

I was not disappointed. The audiobook is a little over eleven hours long and I knocked it out in under two days. It was so difficult to stop listening that at one point I sat in my driveway for half an hour before going inside just to enjoy the book a little longer. I’m giving this book a solid four and a half stars knocking half a star off for what I explained in the “ Eye Roll Moments ” below.

48 Hours Book Synopsis / Intro

The story begins in one of the nicest areas of Missouri I’ve been to, the Ozarks. The lead character of the book, Darren Brooks and his wife, Darla, live in the Ozarks and power has been off and on, mostly off, due to a geomagnetic storm at the beginning of December, three weeks ago.

While the storm, a CME, was certainly a huge blow to most of the United States it would turn out to be just a precursor to something much, much bigger. A potential extinction-level event brought to bear by our own sun.

Much of the book centers around Springfield, MO in an underground storage facility cut deep into an abandoned limestone quarry called Springfield Underground. Darren is chief of security in the warehouse which is partially shut down due to the lack of power.

Side note: I don’t want to make this book review about me but I want you to understand that this underground warehouse, among with others, do indeed exist. Over twenty-five years ago I was an over the road truck driver and have actually delivered ( or picked-up ) in this very cave. It’s massive enough to drive many tractor-trailers into the underground warehouse, drive down huge corridors and back into loading docks. I search for an hour trying to see if I still had a few 35mm photos of this place but I fear they’ve been lost in one of the many moves we’ve made over the years.

We have people coming together for a moral cause, complete anarchy in the states nationwide, and our government out for themselves in the name of CG – continuity of government.

The story includes an inside view of both federal and state government top officials, including the president of the United States and how much of a onesided plan of action they have prepped for.

One key player throughout the book is the great-great-grandson of Richard Christopher Carrington Sr., the first to study the affects a massive solar storm would have on us.

Now all they have to do is decide who gets to live and somehow dig in and try to survive the most catastrophic event since the destruction of the dinosaurs.

Terms & Abbreviations referenced in the book

• ELE ( Extinction Level Event )
• CPE ( Coronal Proton Ejection )
• CME ( Coronal Mass Ejection )
• CG ( Continuity of Government )
• Sauron’s Eye
• Carrington Event A 1859 geomagnetic storm from a CME named after Richard C. Carrington whom first discovered solar flares and how they affect the earth.

I purchased this audiobook from Chirp Books . Check them out for a 20% discount.

Mature Subject Matter:

Violence: Yes Profanity: Yes Sex: No Alcohol/drugs: Very little

Eye Roll Moments

Overall I really enjoyed the book but there were several occasions when I was getting a little frustrated from prolonged drama-ladened sections. For example, as a huge battle was in progress, the author brought the fight to a sudden stop to tell us about overheard sad conversations between innocent bystanders struggling with the situation at hand.

Don’t get me wrong, I understand that most people expect and look forward to the side stories but I’m looking for action, which there was plenty in this book. I appreciate the drama as well, it just went on a little too long for my taste.

48 Hours Main Characters

• Darren Brooks (Underground Springfield, Inc. Chief of Security)
• Darla Brooks (Darren’s wife and former military weapons dealer)
• Richard Christopher Carrington V ( Goddard Space Flight Center ) (Great great-grandson of Richard Christopher Carrington Sr. )
• Allison (Secret service agent assigned to Dr Carrington)
• Captain Harrison (General Perry’s staff)
• Judith Cooper (Assistant director of Goddard)
• Tyrell (Underground security)

Other names and mentions in {book title}

• Mary (Underground security)
• Roger Rouse (Director of Underground, Darren’s boss)
• Barry O’Donnell (Underground Manager)
• Don Jameston (Head of Goddard Tech Team)
• Dr Franklin Massey (Director of Goddard)
• SGT Freeman (General Perry’s staff)
• SGT Bill Danford (General Perry’s staff)
• Joe (Pizza Shop owner)
• Alice Naguro (White House Public Relations)
• Dr Janet Lindstrom (National Security Advisor)
• Senator Hawkins – MO (Senate Majority Leader)
• Dr Van Buren (Secretary of Interior)
• Col. George Atkinson (Navy Seal – Darla’s contact)
• Margaret (Underground worker)
• James & Belinda Connors (First to recommend people for the Underground shelter / Ark)
• Jerry & Helen Green (Former teachers and school principles recommended for the Underground by James & Belinda)
• Dr Sarbak (Crowd recommended for Underground shelter)
• Dr Donkervoet (Crowd recommended for Underground shelter )
• Ron (Old fashioned diner owner in the Underground shelter )
• Major General Jackson Perry (Missouri National Gaurd Commander)
• Admiral Brockenborough (Joint Cheifs of Staff)
• General Patterson
• Kevin Malody (High School head of security)
• Mr Hanson (Irrate White House staff member)
• Lieutenant Peter Hartman (Helicopter pilot)
• Fredricks (Missouri governor’s Cheif of Staff)

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48 hours book review.

48 Hours by William R. Forstchen was another can’t put it down until finished book. Forstchen’s writing is compelling. He makes the reader think about the moral issues while weaving a fascinating tale. Furthermore, political nuances are incorporated throughout the novel.

The premise of 48 Hours is that the Earth is in line for an ELE (extinction level event) from a powerful solar flare. For those readers who have not tuned into the many Discovery Channel shows explaining CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) and other solar disturbances, Forstchen does an outstanding job weaving the science into his fictional story. He strikes a balance between education and entertainment.

48 Hours Settings

The author uses a dual setting in 48 Hours. The story opens up in Southwest Missouri. But an equally important thread takes place in Washington, D.C. with a second storyline. The two plots are stand alone, with a thin tie at the end.

Springfield, Mo.

The lead characters in Missouri are Darren and Darla Brooks. Both are in their second marriage with grown children. The blended family includes a sprinkling of grandchildren. They have ties to military. Darren served in the Mideast and Darla had recently sold a company supplying the military.

A previous CME from a few weeks ago is the current reality. A second hit is the basis of the plot. Darren is head of security for a cavernous underground site with sections either owned or leased by both governmental and private entities. This factor puts him at the center of the story.

Washington, D.C.

Dr. Richard Carrington V is the central character of the 48 Hours storyline based in the United States capitol. His interest in solar flares came naturally as the descendant of the first Richard Carrington. Both the solar event of 1859 and Carrington V are namesakes.

Moral Issue

Key to the novel is the various characters’ moral struggles brought on by the ELE. In a scenario where only one percent survive, who belongs in the continuity of mankind? Forstchen explores this concept, balancing altruistic efforts with the need to plan for future existence.

48 Hours contains individuals within the government and other positions of authority that “do the right thing.” But alas, they are more the exception than the rule. William R. Forstchen has once again written a fictional novel based in science that will give the reader pause. If there truly are a number of these underground facilities, how do we select in advance the survivors?

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