This is NUMBER ONE in the Survivalist series featuring the hero, John Thomas Rourke: The story of the ultimate war, the final nuclear holocaust and the unrelenting quest of John Thomas Rourke as he begins his search across war-ravaged America, following every haunting clue, however fragmentary, to locate his missing family.

Compelling action in the spirit of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARKThe Pressure Builds...Josh Culhane, two-fisted adventurer who'll go anywhere, do anything, teams up with the sexy scholar Mary Mulrooney in a breathtaking pursuit of the satanic Steiglitz and his slinky, psychotic daughter. The boldhearted couple races to grab a power so great that world leaders would risk death to get it. Culhane and Mulrooney battle halfway across the globe, through all the labyrinths of human hist...

America Has a New Policy For Dealing With Terrorists.FIGHT FIRE WITH FIREPOWER…Four men. Hand-picked specialists from America’s military elite.Their mission: A daring raid on a Mideast terrorist stronghold. It’s a covert operation to introduce America’s new fight-back policy on terrorism.If they’re successful they’ll crush the back of the world’s most murderous terror network… trigger a bloodbath that will cost innocent lives.SURGICAL STRIKE—America'...

In the assault on the forces of darkness, can one man survive?The commando raids would be launched simultaneously.Already inside the Soviet Underwater Complex, the US Marines were surfacing, stripping off their environment suits, PV-26 shark guns and 2418 A2 pistols with their thirty-round magazines at the ready. Their commander looked at the dual analog/digital display on his Steinmetz. Under two minutes to go.In the ATV, John Rourke, CIA-trained weapons and surviv...

Hank Frost, the one-eyed mercenary captain, goes on a vicious blood-hunt into the jungles of war-torn Central Africa, carrying his vendetta against the kill-crazy rogue commander who massacred Frost's outfit down to the very last man. The trail leads him into a three-sided ground war between Communist terrorist butchers, a bloody-handed puppet dictator, and the CIA's own revolutionary army. Through an endless web of torture slayings, a bank heist commando raid, and deception, Hank Frost ne...

Faced with a new enemy empire, can one man survive?John Rourke, CIA-trained weapons and survival expert, was fighting for his life—underwater!There had been other survivors of the nuclear nightmare that had devastated the world generations before. Far beneath the ocean's surface, a hidden war was raging between Russians operating from their huge, multi-domed sea-bed city and the Americans of Mid-Wake: their secret sub-Pacific military complex.But now the Russians, r...

World War III left America a toxic wasteland, its proud civilization buried in the poison ruins of nuclear attack. Its spirit all but destroyed, the small tribes of desperate nomads crushed by Soviet conquerors and their troops had little hope for freedom. Until one man dared to challenge the terrible Russian war machine: John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons expert and warrior, the ultimate Survivalist. After his brilliant attack on the combined forces of the Sovie...

THE PRODUCT OF A CRAZED FÜHRER, NOW THEY ARE SOLDIERS OF HORROR!THE EVIL GENIUSA student of the occult. Hitler knew that a properly trained werewolf would be the ultimate warrior. With their shredding fangs, gutting claws and uncanny regenerative powers, they are the ideal killing machines. Through a miracle of genetic engineering, the sadistic madman created the SS unit that would win the war. If they could be controlled.THE IMMORTAL BEASTSIt was a special ...

A fire ball destroyed St. Louis, a plane crashed and an odyssey began—almost 670 years ago. Now unholy alliances are set to reshape the world to their view of evil perfection. Corrupt politicians, Neo-Nazis, Aliens, the returned Atlanteans or those thought to be dead for centuries; who is about to finally bring down the human race?Michael thought he could bring about a better future when he became the President of the United States. So far his job has brought the Rourkes nothing bu...

World War III is now a bloody page in American history. With nuclear holocaust killing more than a quarter-billion people worldwide and the United States just a memory, John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Cover Operations Officer, weapons expert, and survival authority is enduring the ultimate test. Soviet Occupation Forces have landed and must begin the "pacification" of America. They will start by liquidating any prominent Americans who could become a rallying point for armed resistance. The firs...

In a world where all the old evil empires have re-emerged can one man survive? John Rourke, CIA-trained weapons and survival expert had never been better armed for close combat. The Rybka M.O.B. holster, secure on the belt in the small of his back held his old Colt Lawman Mk III .357 Magnum revolver. At his right hip, the Smith 629, at his left hip, the LS-X blade. The little Detonics Combat Masters were holstered in the double Alessi shoulder rig, hidden under his battered brown bomber ja...

World War III was just practice for what's coming. And even those who survived the original firestorm—like John Thomas Rourke—won’t have a chance when the next round of carnage begins.But Rourke, the ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist and survival expert didn't struggle to stay alive in this brutal world only to die in a final holocaust of fire and blood.As six nuclear missiles are poised to start the ultimate conflagration, Rourke's constant quest for his...