Survivalist Books
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.
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 Covert 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 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 U.S. II has begun and the quest continues for John Thomas Rourke, The Survivalist. GraphicAudio®...A Movie in Your MindTM is a unique audio entertainment experience that features a full cast of actors, sound effects and cinematic music. Publisher's Weekly says "Graphic Audio delivers an action and sound effect loaded audiobook that lives up to its tagline, A movie in your mind. " Audiofile Magazine says, GraphicAudio sets the gold standard for full-cast dramatizations, and new listeners will become instant fans.
World War III has passed and John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist and survival expert has at last reached his home only to find that his wife and two children have fled for their lives. With the knowledge that his family has survived the nuclear holocaust, Rourke, with the aid of young Paul Rubenstein, must find his loved ones. But the Soviets are consolidating their military hold on the country and both the ruthless KGB and the fledgling post-war U.S. government have begun their own search. First they must learn the purpose behind the massive launch of U.S. rockets on the night the war began. Then they have to determine the meaning of the mysterious Eden Project and find the one surviving NASA official who can answer all the questions. A deadly game of intrigue within the Soviet High Command, the formation of the American "resistance" and a highly placed traitor in the new U.S. government all block Rourke's path. But nothing can stop him - he is The Survivalist. Jerry Ahern is an American author best known for his post apocalyptic survivalist series The Survivalist. The books in this series are heavy with descriptions of the weapons the protagonists use to survive and prosecute a seemingly never-ending war amongst the remnants of the superpowers from pre-apocalypse times. The series centers around the attempts of Dr. John Thomas Rourke, an ex-CIA agent, to preserve his family. In the first book, a nuclear war begins while Rourke is returning from a business trip. After surviving the crash of an airliner in the Southwest United States, Rourke fights his way across the chaotic horror of the post-war United States to his hidden subterranean survival retreat in Georgia, where he eventually reunites with his family.
IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY-WOULD JOHN THOMAS ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE...?
John Thomas Rourke, M.D., ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons expert, and survival authority, has accomplished one of his goals-he's helped his young friend Paul Rubinstein locate his parents. Now, Rourke's search for his own family must continue, hampered by severe storms raging along the Eastern Seaboard caused by the earthquakes which destroyed Florida. Rourke picks up his relentless quest, avoiding the Russian troops searching for the missing data on the enigmatic Eden Project, and rides into the most bizarre situation he's discovered since the Night of the War. Life in the Tennessee mountain village is all too normal, seemingly unaffected by the war. It is there that John Thomas Rourke finds himself in the middle of a mass suicide pact... and is expected to participate! While battles rage and blizzards roar, Rourke fights to escape. He must go on-he is The Survivalist.
John Thomas Rourke, M.D., ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons expert, and survival authority is on the move again - searching for a cache of eighty megaton warhead missiles secreted on the New West Coast.
John Thomas Rourke, an ex-CIA agent, learns that another nuclear war will break out, this one ending all life on earth, unless he can stop the missile launch
World War III was only the beginning. Inevitable death now awaits every soul who lived through the holocaust as the earth's atmosphere is about to explode into a searing blaze of fire. But one man refuses to die, refuses to accept the horror: John Thomas Rourke, the ex-CIA covert Operations Officer, weapons expert and survival authority. Rourke, desperate to find and save his family, must first smash through Russian patrols and then cut to the heart of a KGB plot that could spawn a lasting legacy of evil. And when the sky bursts into flames, consuming every living being on the planet, it will be the ultimate test for... THE SURVIVALIST.
Back cover text: World War III and its aftermath of all-consuming fire left civilization on the brink of extinction. But John Thomas Rourke - the ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist and survival expert - still lives, fighting the elements and the odds. And thos odds have never been more heavily stacked against Rourke than when he finds his son mortally wounded and Natalia and all of his family kidnapped by a Russian foe, long thought dead. As Rourke's son hovers between life and death under the watchful eyes of John Rubenstein, Rourke loads his weapons and sets out across a desolate Americas. His destination: "The Womb" in Colorado, where he must battle an enemy who brutally tortures his helpless captives before killing them. Rourke cannot afford to fail. There will be no second chances for... THE SURVIVALIST
In a post-World War III nuclear wasteland, weapons specialist and survival expert John Thomas Rourke forms an unlikely alliance with an ex-Nazi in order to completely rid the earth of Nazis and Communists
IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY—WOULD JOHN THOMAS ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE... ? The fiery aftermath of World War III left civilization on the brink of extinction. But John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist and survival expert, will not be stopped in his bold bid to thwart the Communist takeover of the devastated planet. When John Rourke's daughter is kidnapped by a Russian agent, Rourke follows their trail across a frozen Arctic wasteland—and stumbles upon a small pocket of humanity living in a tropical paradise surrounded by ice and snow. The community of Icelandic descendants has flourished in seclusion during the long years following the fiery holocaust, unaware of the fierce and bloody struggle in the outside world between the forces of freedom and Communist tyranny. And as the Russian strike force readies to assault the tranquil enclave, Rourke must quickly teach these people of peace the harsh realities of war, the techniques of killing to survive for freedom's sake, the hard-earned skills of... THE SURVIVALIST.
John Rourke searches the Ural Mountains for the secret Russian underground city, while Karamatsov, his sworn enemy, discovers a secret weapon that will give him control of the world
It's a perilous world after the fiery apocalypse of World War III, and John Thomas Rourke--ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist, and survival expert--pursues his arch-enemy 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.
John Thomas Rourke is caught between the sadistic leader of the Second City of China and Russian Colonel Antonovich, who wants to capture the remainder of China's nuclear arsenal
As the Soviet army advances on the few areas of civilization left after World War III, John Thomas Rourke, alone with helplessly crippled Natalia deep in hostile territory, attempts to fight off the enemy battalions
The survivalist, John Thomas Rourke, attempts to block the alliance of Vladmir Kardmastov's land-dwelling killer army and the Russian colonists of an undersea city of World War III survivors
John Thomas Rourke, an ex-CIA agent, learns that Colonel Antonovich, leader of the Soviet forces is again conspiring against the remnants of the Free World
John Thomas Rourke, an ex-CIA agent, leads international forces against the invading Russians, who have developed a new particle beam weapon
When John Rourke receives reports of a new Soviet particle beam weapon that could tip the fragile balance of world power, he embarks on a hazardous journey to the Ural Mountains to steal the weapon and prevent the outbreak of a war between the Russians and New Germany
World War III has reduced America's purpled mountain majesty to a battle-seared landscape of blasted rubble and toxic waste. A few tattered pockets of civilization struggle to exist, always in the shadow of the advancing Soviet killing machine. Only one man dares to challenge it, John Thomas Rourke: ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer and weapons specialist, and survival expert. Rourke, the Germans, the Chinese of the First City, and the citizens of Mid-Wake ally and try to duplicate the blood-curdling Particle Beam weapons of the Soviets. Without the technology, survival is hopeless. Then intelligence data confirms rumors of an alliance being forged between the warring Soviet factions. Almost as a warning, New Germany is ravaged by a hellish bombing raid of unprecedented magnitude. Rourke and the Free World have no choice: a dual strike, simultaneously against the Soviet undersea forces and the Soviet Underground City, must be launched. The allies' battle plan is desperate, hinging on the success of the untested Particle Beam weapon and the equally-deadly instincts of.. THE SURVIVALIST.
In a postnuclear America, Rourke learns of a secret attack by neo-fascist commandos that could cripple the free city of Eden, and he marshals his SEAL and TAC teams for a counterattack. Original.
With America reduced to a landscape of blasted rubble and toxic waste by World War III, only John Thomas Rourke, an ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, can stand up to the forces of evil. Original.
Rourke and his commandos must fight their way across New York's wastelands and penetrate an ancient mountain complex, where a fascist leader plots to perform a genetic experiment with Hitler's frozen corpse. Original.
In order to save the free world from dangerous seismic activity in the earth's crust, John Rourke and his team of freedom fighters must steal nuclear weapons from a group of Nazis. Original.
In the years following World War III, the Nazis prepare for a final attack on the Trans-Global Alliance, and ex-CIA cover operations officer John Thomas Rourke is determined to stop the Nazis. Original.
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?"
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?
The attacks came suddenly and savagely. Four of Rourke's team on the Kamchatka Peninsula dead. As the sounds of battle subside, he wonders... what's next? All of Natalia's team are dead and butchered, she—about to be raped. Michael battles his political opponents while praying his wife can be rescued from "a fate worse than death.” Up to their necks in conspiracies, the Rourke family faces new enemies from within. A former enemy/ally knocks on Paul Rubenstein's front door bearing gifts and danger? John Thomas Rourke walks into a kidnapping; can it get any worse? Secrets that could hold the answers, sit encased in centuries of ice and snow locked within Mount Rushmore. While one faction works to enslave the inhabitants of earth, another wants to destroy mankind all together. Will there ever be “freedom and justice for all?” Fed up with talk and politics, John Thomas Rourke, the Survivalist, dives back into action. Things go from bad to worse... now, can he get out alive? Or... has he finally run out of plans?
Neo-Nazis attack New Germany Mount Rushmore's Hall of Records stands empty and the four Presidents safely unshackled from their icy prison. But John Rourke is missing and no one has a clue to his whereabouts. Genetically engineered insects spread a deadly plague with a high mortality rate. A pair of “sadistic sociopaths” is hunting the children of John Rourke and Paul Rubenstein, and one of them is “the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you’ll ever meet.” Michael Rourke faces tough decisions which will affect his presidency, and some will change the lives of family members—forever. Death reaches into the Rourke family with devastating results. Strange allies surface, old allies prove to be enemies. Could “Deep Star,” a massive Russian underwater facility, be where John Rourke is being held? What is next for the Rourke family? Can they survive?
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 but grief. Paul steps into the role of protector for his loved ones but wonders if he's doing enough. Is he doing what his mentor, John Thomas Rourke, would do? Is this quest, one that could mean life if he succeeds or death for his family if he doesn't, he be the last? Has John Thomas Rourke finally been located? If so, can he be rescued in time? A new team, a posse, is formed, known to only a select few. Their goal is simple—SAVE MANKIND!
The history of the world has been changed by evil more often than by good. Evil does not always come straight at you; evil is a coward that insinuates itself around the truth, around courage and even around reality. That is why we call it evil. John Thomas Rourke and his family and friends have dealt with evil before. But this time, it is strangely different. Not long ago, Atlantis and UFOs and Aliens were legends. Now the legends are not only real but interlinked; inexorably and forever tied to each other. A history we never knew is now a reality we will never forget. One tinged by evil. This time courage alone nor hot lead alone nor cold steel alone can fix the problem. All of the threads of the recent past have now been pulled together, but to what end? Once again, the world is about to change and nothing can stop it. The question now is, can John Thomas Rourke guide his family toward their own survival and into yet another new world?
Two more people important to the Rourkes face death. The family declares it is time to go on the offense…and so, the hunt for those hunting them begins with a vengeance. Click…click…click. Natalia’s Bali-Song sings as it opens and closes and she and Michael don battle gear once more to fight side by side…to the death if need be. It feels like the old days… when the John Thomas Rourke legend first began. Once again the family is in danger…once again the world is in danger and about to die. Again, the question must be asked…with all of the danger and all of the death…can John Thomas Rourke survive? Like a Phoenix rising from its own ashes, the Rourke story begins again.