Bearers of the Black Staff

Blurb

Bearers of the Black Staff is a fantasy novel by Terry Brooks released on August 24, 2010 as the first of a two-part series called the Legends of Shannara. In the series' timeline, it falls between the Genesis of Shannara trilogy and the First King of Shannara. It takes place 500 years after the events of the final Genesis book, The Gypsy Morph. The people who were saved by Hawk's magic will be able to head out into the world once again now that the effects of nuclear holocaust have dissipated.
The sequel is the 2011 novel The Measure of the Magic.