I read One Second After a while ago, perhaps a year even. I'll agree that it's a fairly good book to introduce someone to the importance of prepping. And it does so in a semi-likely and somewhat plausible manner. I did however find it to be a book that in my opinion helps a person build a large list of "things that don't work well when the SHTF". Maybe more so than a list of things that are likely to actually work or be possible in a SHTF scenario. While it displays some of the positive aspects of being part of a small community (though in a very ideal manner) I think it inadvertently showed all the downsides to it as well. I think for me it reinforced the idea that while there are benefits to being in a large neighborhood or small community, the downsides involving human behavior and a sense of "the committee decides" can quickly ruin survival or make things much more difficult.

Also, I find it ironic that a lot of people criticize books like Patriots for being overly idealistic when I thought OSA was *at least* as idealistic in nature. Either way a decent book to read and pretty good one to use to indoctrinate folks into the fold.