John Thomas Rourke's world is now roughly one-third of what it was; everything above latitude 35 north and below latitude 35 south is encased in glacial ice. The geography drastically changed but little else did. Maniacs and evil had still tried to dominate those who wanted to be free. Days became weeks, weeks became months and months turned into years as he battled and vanquished the enemies of humanity in every form and shape damnation threw at him. His last victory, almost seventeen years ago, granted him peace-a peace he had courted, a peace he had sought-one he never believed he would find. That peace is about to end; Rourke's world is threatened again by forces he never conceived of. Are they so unpredictable-situations so dire-there is no way to "plan ahead?" Original artwork by Colin Regn and Faith Maltese; editorial assistance by Kim Kuri.

The ravages of nuclear war have reduced America, the once-proud land of plenty, to a battle-seared landscape of blasted rubble and toxic waste. A few tattered pockets of civilization struggle against the tyranny of the totalitarian army's crushing military occupation. Only one man dares to challenge the enemies of freedom-John Thomas Rourke: ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist and warrior... the ultimate Survivalist. Sub-oceanic cracks in the Earth's crust threaten the safety of the free world. But John Rourke's team has the solution. Massive nuclear explosions strategically placed will avert certain disaster and the deaths of millions. But Deitrich Drimmer and his Nazi stormtroopers control the only cache of atomic weapons large enough to complete the plan. It's up to the Survivalist and his team of commando fighters to destroy the Nazi stronghold and seize the powerful bombs before the future of democracy and life itself are annihilated forever

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 Soviet and Fascist armies outside of Eden, Rourke and the rebels retreated to relative safety in the lush Rift Valley. Or so they thought. Ruthless mercenaries known as Land Pirates attacked them deploying their huge mobile arsenals of mega-particle beam anti-personnel weapons in a bloody surprise raid. Forced to run, Rourke and his troops were surrounded on all sides by hostile armies. The cause of America's freedom seemed doomed forever. But out of the flames of bitter defeat, democracy's greatest warrior rallied to snatch his most decisive victory

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 first name on the list is Samuel Chambers, the lone surviving member of the Presidential cabinet. And as the American KGB invades Texas to find Chambers, they find Rourke there as well. With his young friend Paul Rubenstein, Rourke is fighting his way back home to continue the search for his missing wife and children. Paramilitary armies, heavily armed brigands, a beautiful KGB infiltrator, an unending stream of War refugees, and a land gone mad with violence block his path. The birth of the U.S. II has begun and the quest continues for John Thomas Rourke - THE SURVIVALIST.

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.

FOR FREEDOM...OR TYRANNY? ONE FINAL BATTLE...ONE LAST SHOT IN ON THE FINISH-HE'LL WRITE HISTORY WITH HIS HONOR... AND WITH HIS GUN. America is dying. Terrorists now control the military and the President. But a flame of hope still flickers when the Patriots find a new ally-a band of Native Americans, defiant descendants of Sioux, Apache, and Comanche warriors. Combat-ready and grimly determined, David Holden prepares a final surprise attack on the drug kingpins and FLNA bosses who have snatched our freedom. And one blazing last fight for liberty... or for death... begins. 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.

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

The wise-cracking, one-eyed mere captain was just planning a little vacation with his lady, Bess, while she worked up a story on devil cultists and mutilation murders. Then he runs into the enigmatic assassin who iced his old C.O. back in 'Nam, and finds a tie-in between the disappearances of top-ranking U.S. scientists and a hellfire-and-brimstone TV evangelist. It was supposed to be a simple vacation, but before it is over, the merc is fighting for his life and country as a bizarre Soviet plot explodes in the middle of Georgia. A vacation... but Hank Frost should have known better... THEY CALL ME THE MERCENARY.

Frost finds himself in a deadly game of who do you trust when he's forced to work his way across mainland China-with a Chicom secret agent It is one of those times when a man's got to do what he's got to do-even if it goes against everything he believes in. With China and Russia moving closer to a shooting war, Hank and Mike O'Hara have to go into action between the trigger-happy forces on both sides to find a tape that could throw America into the middle of a war we shouldn't be in. The only thing that makes the merc happy is Elizabeth Chu'an, a beautiful and seductive operative assigned by Peking to accompany him. Or is she a double? Hank's been dodging bullets since arriving in Hong Kong; now, in the cold of Nepal, he finds himself the bull's eye in a Commie shooting gallery-and he still can't be sure of who he can trust

Hank Frost, the wise-cracking, one-eyed merc captain, is hired by the hot-tempered and incredibly desirable daughter of the assassinated patriarch of Miami's anti-Castro underground. The mission: cut the three-way connection between Havana, Columbia's M-19 terrorists and the Florida drug smugglers. But Frost discovers that more than drugs are being smuggled-arms and explosives are being traded off to the M-19 for military protection and to pro-Castro terrorists in Miami. And as Frost fights against Castro death squads, M-19 guerillas in the South American jungles and murderous professional hit men, it's hard for him to figure if the fiery beauty who hired him wants him more as a lover-or as a target...

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.

An Epic novel of exotic rituals and the lure of the Upper Amazon SHE TAKES... ...an ancient map uncovered in the bustling bazaars of Istanbul. HE TAKES... ...a million-dollar ransom to rescue a kidnapped heiress. THE TAKERS... ...are Josh Culhane and Mary Mulrooney. They launch an incredible journey into the Brazilian rain forest. Far upriver, the jungle yields its deepest secret-the lost city of the Amazon warrior-women. But this uncharted world of piranha-infested waters and tribal head-hunters conceals an even darker secret, so sinister it challenges the furthest reaches of the mind...

IT'S TIME TO DO OR DIE... TO KEEP FREEDOM ALIVE HE'S OUR #1 HERO... FACING THE ULTIMATE TEST OF COURAGE As ruthlessly as Nazi storm troopers, the terrorists have seized control of America's military and imprisoned the nation's best and brightest officers in a brutal Montana death camp. Freedom's beacon will be extinguished in the USA unless David Holden and his tough resistance fighters, the Patriots, can come to the rescue. But is the enemy luring Holden into the ultimate trap to finish him off-for good? 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.

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.

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...

Compelling action in the spirit of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK The 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 history and myth, to a last stand beneath the Antarctic ice cap, where they find an ancient starbase whose builders had never gotten home