Bøger af Jerry Ahern

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.

The FLNA terrorists had thought that by breaking Patriot leader David Holden, they would be one giant step closer to conquering America. So they had kidnapped him and held him captive in a South American cocaine country, where he was subjected to ruthless, brutal torture. The enemy had him right where they wanted him.But he never broke. Now he's free and planning a little payback. He's going to dispense personal justice to the FLNA-with his Uzi, his double-edged knife, and his do-or-die plan to get his pound of flesh... and bloody vengeance.

DEMOCRACY'S FOES TRIED TO JAIL HIM... THAT WAS JUST THEIR FIRST MISTAKE!David Holden was supposed to be a dead man. The subversive FLNA had taken him captive... and their master torturer tried to make him talk. But it would take more than chains to keep Holden jailed... and more than pain to make him tell. Now he's free, on the run with a beautiful woman, and ready to kill anyone who tries to stop him. This time the FLNA's going to pay for their terrorist cruelty. In cold blood.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 ex-cops and vets, he's fighting back with all the cunning, expertise, and brute force at his command. Anytime, anyplace, Holden and his warriors are ready to defend their country from the enemy-the enemy outside and the enemy within.

ON THE BRINK OF WAR HE'LL WIN PEACE BY SHOOTING FIRST.David Holden and his Patriots have hit the subversive FLNA hard... knocking out their headquarters on an exclusive resort island. But the FLNA's leader is readying a horrifying plan-to assassinate America's President and capture Holden. Now the enemy is a heartbeat away from victory in North America, and being lured toward a fatal trap is the one man who can save her.

IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY-WOULD JOHN THOMAS ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE...?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.New forces are at work to destroy democracy in the dark halls of Deitrich Zimmer's headquarters. Obsessed with genetic experiments, the fascist leader holds Rourke's beloved Sarah hostage and threatens to kill her unless the survivalist agrees to undertake a suicide mission to retrieve Zimmer's ultimate prize: the frozen corpse of Adolf Hitler. Fighting their way across New York's poisonous wastelands, Rourke and his brave commandos must penetrate an ancient mountain complex and do battle with an underground race of high-tech warriors to seize their unholy cargo and stop Zimmer's plan to annihilate America's future forever!

IN A CORRUPT CAMPAIGN, ONLY BULLETS COUNT AS VOTES AGAINST TERROR.In the streets of America's most violent city, the radical FLNA continues a ruthless campaign against freedom. Their "law-and-order" candidate for mayor is backed by an international syndicate doing a billion-dollar business in drugs and guns. Only David Holden and his Patriots have the guts-and the grit-to stand in their way. When the FLNA savagely attacks a member of the Special Task Force and kidnaps another, it's meant as a deadly warning. But for Holden and his freedom fighters there's no turning back.

IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY-WOULD JOHN THOMAS ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE...?World War Ill has reduced 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 armies 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.Ever on the alert, Rourke and his freedom commandos have set defensive positions around their island stronghold of democracy. However, after the devastating eruption of the island's long dormant volcano that left thousands dead and communications destroyed, the high-tech enemies of freedom move in. Twelve trained terrorist/assassins launch a bloody attack against Rourke's most trusted freedom fighters, weakening his already strained defenses. The moment ripe, the occupation forces attack by sea and air in a blitzkrieg of terrible destruction with chemical weapons. Rourke must spearhead the counterattack, aided by his super squadron of fighter jets in a lethal battle that will decide the final fate of America's future!

IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY-WOULD JOHN ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE... ? Once vital and proud, America has been reduced to a toxic wasteland in the aftermath of World War III. Buried in the poison ruins of nuclear attack, its spirit all but destroyed, small tribes of brave nomads keep the smoldering embers of freedom alive, threatened by the brutal Soviet conquerors. Only one man dared to challenge the terrible Russian war machine: John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Operations Officer, weapons expert and warrior, the ultimate survivalist.Disaster threatens the free city of Eden. John Rourke has learned of a secret attack by Neo-Fascist commando forces to cripple the island nation power from within. Marshalling his SEAL and Tac teams, the survivalist must lead his troops in a bloody island counterattack to repel the massive enemy offensive. Millions of lives and the destruction of America's last bastion of freedom hang in the balance as Rourke fights desperately to win the battle that could be his last!

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.

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.Brothers of the Gun 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!

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.

IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY-WOULD JOHN THOMAS ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE... ?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, 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.

It's a new world after the apocalypse, and John Thomas Rourke-ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist, and survival expert-finds himself in a strange alliance with a former Nazi in the hope of thwarting a Communist take-over of the devastated planet.Rourke isn't sure if he can trust his new ally, but to save the Eden Project, he has no choice except to play along. But from that moment on, death stalks Rourke's every move as he risks his life-and the lives of those he loves-on a bold bid to rid the earth forever of both the Reds and the Nazis. Freedom for a battered humanity is Rourke's ultimate goal. And in this post-world War III wasteland, freedom is the only thing worth living for, if you're... THE SURVIVALIST.IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY-WOULD JOHN THOMAS ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE...?

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 those 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 Paul Rubenstein, Rourke loads his weapons and sets out across a desolate America. 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 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 jacket. The big Detonics Scoremasters were in his belt; the Sting 1A Black Chrome tucked away inside his waistband. He slung the M-16 muzzle down, across his back. Not overkill. Not when the stakes were this high. Not just personal survival but the future of the planet's entire ecosystem.

ON THE EVE OF CHAOS HE'S AMERICA'S LAST LINE OF DEFENSE. Someone has organized the inner city's toughest gangs, trained and armed them with sophisticated weaponry and set them loose on the streets. By the time the police and politicos can act, it's too late: the ruthless armies of the night have turned America into a war zone. Every home and public place is a potential target. No one is safe. In one brutal instant Professor David Holden had lost all a man could lose. Now the ex-Navy SEAL commando is fighting the war only a desperate man can wage. And once he's begun, no force on earth can stop him-not the military, not the government... and certainly not the enemy! About the Series The Defender series depicts life in an America where anarchy reigns due to a small group of Marxist-leaning terrorists using inner-city gangs and a weak and incompetent federal response to them. Groups of citizens, known as Patriots, band together for protection and take the war to opposing terrorists. A small-college history professor and former Navy SEAL, Dr. David Holden, leads a group of Patriots in an unidentified area known as the Metro.

IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY-WOULD JOHN THOMAS ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE...?John Thomas Rourke's remarkable survival skills enabled him to emerge unscathed from the nuclear devastation of W.W. III. But terrifying new storm clouds loom over the eastern horizon-as the ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer and weapons expert takes command of his battered nation's broadening air and land war against the brutal Soviet foe. Russian troops, utilizing a blood-curdling new Particle Beam technology, have launched a furious assault on the Eden Project.Joining forces with his international allies-including the army of the underwater citadel Mid-Wake-Rourke races to the defense of the beleaguered settlement. The entire world is dividing to do battle a fourth time. But this time the Earth's atmospheric envelope is so fragile that a single nuclear bomb blast will assure the total annihilation of mankind. And unless John Thomas Rourke can stem the raging Communist death-tide before the ultimate button is pushed, no power on the planet will be able to forestall humanity's extinction-not even... THE SURVIVALIST.

No human being could possibly escape death when the earth's atmosphere explodes into a blazing wave of global fire. But John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist, and survival expert would not be denied another chance at life. His family and friends are alive and about to enter a cruel, desolate new world. Thinking that The Retreat is the last refuge of life on earth until the Eden Project returns, Rourke is stunned to find that others have also survived the fiery holocaust. Yet these humans live to kill and kill to live, eating the flesh of their victims. Rourke and all he holds dear will soon be nothing but gnawed bones unless he once again makes the most of his skills as The Survivalist.

IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY-WOULD JOHN THOMAS ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE...? In the post-apocalyptic world, consumed by World War III, right and wrong, virtue and vice have skewed their meanings. Old animosities remain; new and deadly alliances are formed. But one need remains constant-the need to survive.John Thomas Rourke-ex-CIA Covert Operations officer and weapons specialist-has become an expert at the arts of survival in a peril-strewn world. But now, in a desperate attempt to render impotent his arch-enemy, Colonel Antonovich, leader of the tyrannical Soviet forces aligned against the Free world, Rourke has no choice but to lay his life on the line against insuperable odds.Antonovich is plotting an alliance with Russians at their underseas base-an alliance which would doom the cause of freedom. Reaching Mid-Wake, focal point of the world's free forces, Rourke learns of the plot and plans his bloody counter-attack, it's a desperate measure, with the survival of the Free world hanging on the outcome. But Rourke is... THE SURVIVALIST.

IIn 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 survival expert, tensed as they approached the Underground City's outer gate. Beside him was the energy weapon. Up front, driving, Paul closed his fist over the Smith & Wesson Model 681 Magnum. As the guards approached he fired...The final fight was beginning.

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.

The Russians, consolidating their brutal hold on America after the bloody horror of World War III, are planning an act so vicious that mankind, itself, may never recover from the blow. John Thomas Rourke, the ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons expert, and survival authority is the only one with a prayer of stopping them.But the Reds aren't afraid of Rourke. They fear the same thing he does: the imminent combustion of the earth's atmosphere into a global mass of deadly flame!Though Rourke has finally found his family, it will be a short reunion if he can't find a way to survive the Earth Fire. When all of humanity is about the burn in a hell of its own creation, it will be the final-and perhaps fatal-test of Rourke's skills as THE SURVIVALIST.

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.

IIF 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.

IT'S TIME TO DO OR DIE... TO KEEP FREEDOM ALIVE!HE'S OUR #1 HERO... FACING THE ULTIMATE TEST OF COURAGEAs 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?

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, realizing that earth's surface was habitable, had begun to emerge. Only John Rourke, escaping from his captors, armed with a pair of the enemy's Sty-20 dart-firing sedative guns, could warn his allies that an evil underwater empire was about to rise up out of the waters...

IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY-WOULD JOHN THOMAS ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE?Marshal Vladmir Karamatsov is dead, the victim of the fierce undersea battle for Mid-Wake. But with his arch enemy gone, John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Covert operations Officer and survival authority, discovers a terrifying new threat looming on the eastern horizon.On an expedition to secure peaceful relations with the Far East, Rourke's son Michael and his ambassadors are imprisoned by the mysterious leader of the second City of China-a sadistic madman intent on unleashing another nuclear holocaust on an already war-ravaged world.With Russian Colonel Antonovich, Karamat-sov's surviving second-in-command, preparing to mount his own assault on the Second City to gain control of the remainder of China's pre-war atomic arsenal, John Rourke finds himself trapped between two seemingly invincible enemies. And with precious time running out, he is the only man who can rescue his captured son and save what is left of civilization from total destruction. He is... The SURVIVALIST.

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 wife and son becomes a desperate mission to save both his family and all humanity from being blasted into extinction. If he should fail, no man will ever walk the earth again-not even... THE SURVIVALIST.

John Thomas Rourke, M.D., ex-CIA covert operations Officer, weapons expert, and survival authority on the move again-searching for a cache of eighty megaton warhead missiles secreted on the New West Coast.It begins with a firefight between Brigands and a unit of U.S. II armed forces, a battle that ends with Rourke, and a seriously wounded Natalia, taking refuge on a submarine.The sight of the sunken remains of San Francisco is a grisly reminder of the Night of the War; the horde of half-dressed savages waiting on the shore, a deadly example of the madness of this brutal post-holocaust world.Surrounded now by murderous madmen and threatened by a mysterious officer who has been travelling with him, Rourke must call on all his training to escape and continue the search for his family. He must go on-he is THE SURVIVALIST.

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.