The Living Will Envy The Dead — Christopher G. Nuttall

Ed Stalker had seen his fill of adventure after a life in the Marines and was content to be the small-town Sheriff of Ingalls, a town in West Virginia.  Unfortunately for Ed's retirement plans, the long-feared war with Russia turns nuclear and the United States comes under nuclear attack.  Trapped in the post-nuclear world, Ed and his town must struggle to survive, facing refugees, bandits, religious fanatics and hard decisions to ensure that some remnant of the United States remains intact…