Worth Reading: Yes.

Summary: Suddenly the continental United States is enveloped by a blue cloud of plasma. Everyone that was inside the cloud is gone. The worlds largest economy has ceased to exist, and with that others start to crumble. Countries fall into civil strife. The war in the middle east suddenly changes. America’s military machine has lost its support line, and the rest of her citizens have lost their commander in chief.

What I did find interesting was the complete lack of focus on what the plasma was and how it occurred. The focus of the entire book is what occurs because of the loss.