IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY-WOULD JOHN THOMAS ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE...? It's a perilous world after the fiery apocalypse of World War III, and John Thomas Rourke-ex-ClA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist, and survival expert-pursues his archenemy Vladmir Karamatsov into the strife-torn, blackened wilderness of mainland China and a rendezvous with certain death. Karamatsov in possession of devastating gas that transmutes normal men into homicidal, blood-crazed animals, is determined to use it to seize control of the vast Communist Chinese nuclear arsenal that survived the hell-fire destruction of the Night of The War. Like few men alive on earth, Rourke knows the thermonuclear horrors that await mankind. Although the odds have never been more heavily stacked against him, he has no choice but to attack and crush the new threat-he is.... THE SURVIVALIST.

IF CIVILILZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY - WOULD JOHN THOMAS ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE...? When the earth's atmosphere explodes into a blazing wave of global fire, few could hope to escape with their lives. But John Thomas Rourke-ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist and survival expert-would not be denied another chance at life to thwart the communist takeover of the devastated planet... A secret weapon, buried before the fiery apocalypse of world War III, is unearthed from the sands beneath the shadow of the Great Pyramid-a weapon that Hero Marshall Vladmir Karamatsov will use to establish himself ruler of the new earth. And as John Rourke searches the icy wastelands of the Ural Mountains for the secret entrance to the Soviet underground City, he is inexorably drawn into Karamatsov's plan for world conquest. Because Rourke, now more than ever, must kill Karamatsov to avenge the murder of one of Rourke's own-even if it means spearheading a commando raid into the midst of a bloody battle of Russian against Russian. John Rourke has no choice but to fight on-he is... THE SURVIVALIST.

Matt Jenks, one of the Merc's old Army buddies, is missing... behind Soviet lines in Afghanistan. When Hank Frost agrees to go in looking for him, he stumbles onto a U.S. intelligence operation and becomes the sudden target of a KGB hit team. Jenks wasn't just a volunteer; he was a CIA contract employee, and he had uncovered a Soviet weapon of such frightening potential it could bring the West to its knees. Now, The Company wants Frost to take on his buddy's job Bloodbath after bloodbath, firefights with Soviet Alpine troops, and a pathologically violent, excitingly beautiful rebel girl who will kill Frost if she has to in order to get her job done, all bring the one-eyed mere closer to the tightly-secured Soviet base where Jenks is being held and the weapon is being readied for "testing" against Afghan freedom fighters. A simple rescue is turning into much more than Frost bargained for-and maybe more than he can handle

Hank Frost, the wise-cracking, one-eyed merc certainly hadn't expected the attack in the peaceful woods north of Atlanta, but he managed to take out a few of the men before he fell. Even more surprising was his condition when he awoke: straitjacketed in a ward somewhere deep inside the Soviet Union. He didn't need two eyes to see to the heart of what the Russian doctor was telling him-they were going to plant electrodes in his brain and turn him into a weapon for the KGB Frost shakes off the effects of the drugs they've been using and manages an escape that takes him through the bitter Siberian winter toward the Baltic, accompanied by a stunning language teacher whose naked body conceals a deadly secret. Mind control, political intrigue, bloody violence and murder-Hank Frost is in it up to his eyepatch

Holden is the only man that can stop the FLNA's master plan to take over America, leaving him to be the most hunted man in America. And, while the U.S. President lies wounded in a secret hideaway, even Holden can't stop the FLNA from putting their puppet in the White House. Now, with the most skilled commandos in the U.S. fighting at his side, Holden must rescue the President before the FLNA's deadly assassins close in... or America is doomed.

Hank Frost, the one-eyed merc Captain who fires off eye patch jokes almost as fast as the 9mm slugs from his pistol, gets an offer he can't refuse. The exquisitely-beautiful daughter of a New York Mafia capo has been kidnapped by white slavers in the Middle East and sold into the harem of a militant Arab oil sheik. The capo and his own crime syndicate "soldiers" are powerless to get her out. If the girl fails to please her "master" she'll be butchered. Frost mounts a mercenary strike force to penetrate the sheikdom. But rescuing the capo's daughter is just the beginning of Frost's troubles. The sheik and his neo-Nazi advisors are plotting to assassinate the President of Egypt, putting the blame on Jewish extremists and making the Middle East explode in all-out war

Hank Frost, the wise-cracking, one-eyed mercenary captain, suddenly becomes commanding general of an anti-Communist Mercenary Army doubling as admiral of a moth-balled invasion fleet. And there's also a $100,000 payoff in the bargain. All Frost has to do is invade Monte Azul, a country lost to Communist terrorists, and oust Castro's murderous puppet dictator, who's backed by a Castro Army of 4,000 shock troops. But if he survives that, there's Marina, the daughter of the dead anti-Communist president, who wants Frost as her lover-and the vengeance-bent right-wing Army leader who wants Frost dead. Assassination, piracy commando raids and pitched battles lead Frost ever near the final one-on-one death-duel with the dictator

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's New Terrorist Negotiation Team

HANK FROST- THE ONE-EYED MERC CAPTAIN Hank Frost, the one-eyed mere Captain with the mile-long string of eye patch jokes, the overused 9mm and a low-budget bank account, loses the commission on a multi-million-dollar deal and to keep on eating, hires out for a vendetta against the Burmese drug warlords. With a mercenary commando team, Frost penetrates the steaming Southeast Asian jungles to knock off the kingpin of the raw opium trade and avenge a savage murder. From New Orleans to Upstate New York, from Miami to Thailand, Frost is duking it out with the billion-dollar drug business, a Cosa Nostra capo who wants to corner the market and power-mad warlords at the head of the opium pipeline. Then he has to deal with the girl from the drug awareness political action group who wants to get the hard facts on opium smuggling and could wind up a high-priced harem slave. And the one-eyed man is sentenced to an execution that might just switch him over to headless jokes...

Hank Frost, the wise-cracking, one-eyed mercenary captain, takes on an "easy" executive protection job. The assignment is to ride shotgun on a seven-year-old genius en route to rejoin his father, a U.S. military aircraft expert working on a Top Secret "mystery bomber" with the Canadian government. But the whiz-kid doesn't like Frost's eye patch jokes, and the boy's father turns up missing-along with the mysterious plane. And then there's the PLO and some Baader-Meinhof gang alumni who have plans to introduce global terrorism to North America in a big, big way. All Frost was looking forward to was just a couple of quiet weeks with his girlfriend Bess-without terrorists, without Israeli Intelligence, without the FBI and the Mounties chasing him, and most definitely without the whiz-kid

AGAINST THE FANATICAL ENEMIES OF LIBERTY THEY WERE AMERICAS FIGHTING TICKET. As the race for Metro mayor heats up, the city explodes in a new wave of brutal violence. The radical FLNA has a simple strategy to insure their candidate's victory: bombings, kidnappings, and cold-blooded murder. One way or another, the terrorists are heavily favored to make a killing. Only David Holden and his Patriots refuse to run scared. Outlawed and outcast, the Defender joins forces with a top-secret team of FBI special agents on a blood-soaked campaign to beat the enemy at his own savage game... to cast their vote for freedom with ballots-and bullets. About the Series THE DEFENDER A patriot in the truest sense, David Holden was a law-abiding citizen-until the laws proved powerless to protect the innocent, to stop an invader hell-bent on America's destruction. With an army of renegade cops and ex-vets, he's fighting back with all the cunning, expertise, and brute force at his command. Anytime, any place, Holden and his warriors are ready to defend their country from the enemy-the enemy outside and the enemy within.

Assasination in the Swiss Alps... terrorism in the Central American jungle... Treachery in Washington... and Hank Frost is right in the middle The wise-cracking mercenary captain is up to his eyepatch in brutal violence.

TO SAVE HIS COUNTRY, HE GAVE UP EVERYTHING EXCEPT FREEDOM-AND HIS WILL TO FIGHT On every street, in every major city, the battle for America is raging, and one man is caught in the killing crossfire. To the FLNA terrorists he is the deadliest of enemies. To a gutless government he is a dangerous fanatic. Only one thing is certain: All that stands between America and total chaos is David Holden and the Patriots. Now the ex-SEAL commando is leading his special team of freedom fighters on a blood-soaked mission to stop a sinister conspiracy. For a master assassin has America's last hope in his lethal cross hairs. All that stands between victory and death is the pull of a trigger and... About the Series THE DEFENDER A patriot in the truest sense, David Holden was a law-abiding citizen-until the laws proved powerless to protect the innocent, to stop an invader hell-bent on America's destruction. With an army of renegade cops and ex-vets, he's fighting back with all the cunning, expertise, and brute force at his command. Anytime, any place, Holden and his warriors are ready to defend their country from the enemy-the enemy outside and the enemy within.

The Rourke saga continues now with Michael Rourke striving to lead America back from the precipice of a liberal agenda toward the formation of a responsible government, accountable to the people. However, he has been painted as a psychological maniac killer and his wife, Natalia, is viewed as an unsuitable First Lady because of her past as a KGB operative. An alien force, The Coalition, is trying to destroy the planet and yet still another alien group is staged, waiting for their chance to take control of Earth's human population. Traitors within the human race have aligned with both sides, and the Rourke family is once again thrust "into the breach." It seems that no matter how far into the future you travel, some things never change, there are just new faces being worn by evil. John Thomas Rourke knows, "It always pays to plan ahead." If he fails, Earth's population has only two futures-extinction or slavery. Which will it be?

IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY-WOULD JOHN THOMAS ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE...? The brain-searing nightmare of world war III left few survivors. These tiny pockets of civilization now face certain annihilation as the Soviet fighting machine advances, tightening its global stranglehold. Only one man dares to challenge it. He is John Thomas Rourke-the ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist and survival expert. Rourke vows not to be snuffed out, and to protect his remaining loved ones from this bloody onslaught. When the Russians move hungrily to seize Eden Base and the Hekla Community, the nuclear arsenals of Second City are finally within their grasp. Rourke, attacked on all sides by enemy battalions and blood-crazed survivors of the Second City, is alone deep inside hostile territory with helplessly-crippled Natalia. Together they fight tooth and nail for another day to play the bitterest game: survival. As the skies darken and the air crackles with the angry flames of war, this may be the final challenge for... THE SURVIVALIST.

Hank Frost, the one-eyed merc captain, is trailing the Black Market arms buys of Eva Chapmann, "The Deathwitch." From the high seas of the Mediterranean to Sicily to the Greek Isles and the Pillars of Hercules, Frost, with a force of Cosa Nostra hitmen for his "commando team," battles time and superior odds to put a bullet through the heart of The Deathwitch before she plunges the world into nuclear war. And then there's the exquisite Constanza who handles a ship or a subgun as good as a man-and she's with Hank Frost all the way...

IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY-WOULD JOHN THOMAS ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE...? The lucky died fast. Millions suffered unspeakable agonies as a tide of toxic death rolled across America's once majestic land. Now, in the years after world war III, the land of the free is struggling for its very survival, facing the crushing onslaught of a powerful enemy's killing machine, in this blasted landscape one man stands forth as the last hero: ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist, and survivalist, John Thomas Rourke... Leaving his hospital bed against doctor's orders, John Rourke must do what he can to stop the war and gain control of the world's nuclear arsenal. With the Nazis preparing their final assault on the Trans-Global Alliance and madman Deitrich Zimmer infuriated by the destruction of his cloning facility in the Himalayas, time is running out. Overcoming his wounds, Rourke formulates a daring plan to reach a secretly rebellious Nazi officer who envies Zimmer's power-and to trust this man with the fate of the world. For while war rages, an even greater danger looms: a volcanic vent that is tunneling its way eastward and can only be stopped one way: with the last nuclear warheads on earth