\'The Fifth Horseman\' is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel set in the near future in Northern Arkansas; after an economic collapse, EMP attack, and limited nuclear war bring racial civil warfare and the collapse of society to America.
The rest divide their loyalties into neo-feudal city-states and their territories, s.
Tens of millions have died of starvation and disease and war.
The name used to refer to the fall of civilization within this universe is \'The Balk\', shorthand for \'Balkanization\'. \'The Fifth Horseman\' is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel set in the near future in Northern Arkansas; after an economic collapse, EMP attack, and limited nuclear war bring racial civil warfare and the collapse of society to America