New for 2016 Now professionally edited, completely revised, and with over 10,00 additional words. Author Donald Franck brings you an exciting tale of disaster as Mankind steps back in time from the actions of a massive solar flare See the effects of an EMP on society. As well as the realistic possibilities of the growing terrors facing our civilization today. With the possible act of terrorism using a nuclear device to create an electromagnetic pulse high in the ionosphere to destroy all electrical computers, power stations, and lines of communication across a vast area of the planet. This act alone would move a vital computer driven society back into a near Stone Age struggle for survival. See in Darkness Reigns: Airplanes flying over the northern Pacific were some of the first to be affected as one moment they were sailing 35,000 feet above the Pacific, the next moment everything went silent and they felt themselves start falling to the earth, a fall that would take upwards to seven minutes and would end in the terrible and tragic loss of life. Darkness reigned as elevators fell because the emergency brakes were no longer able to hold the elevator cars that were jammed full of people and they plummeted hundreds of feet to the ground. This was the beginning of the first day, the first day of the end, as we knew it for over 100 years of darkness that would reign over the rest of the world.