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 forty-eight hours, the earth will be hit with a coronal mass ejection (CME) from sunlight, a ‘Carrington Event’ that has the energy to turn off and perhaps destroy the world’s electrical infrastructure. To try and prevent permanent harm, everything will go dark before the strike: global marketing communications are shut down; hospital crisis generators are disconnected; the entire internet, media broadcasting, and cell phone systems are switched off.

Can the world’s population successfully defend itself in the wake from the CME, or will mass stress lead to the breakdown of culture as we know it?

William R. Forstchen is at his best in 48 Hours, an account of the resilience of Americans when faced with a crisis.