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Palmerville, Wyoming had a good lawman. Marshal Dale Leighton. At least, he was good until he lost an arm in a gunfight. Hearing he was in trouble, Clint Adams, The Gunsmith, rode hard for the town, vowing to help his friend. And help he does, teaching Leighton to use his left hand and training him until the marshal is better with his new gunhand than he ever was with his old. But soon The Gunsmith sees something else... Leighton has turned vicious and uses his deadly new skill even when there's no call to. The Gunsmith has to turn against his old friend to help the town... and one of the first people to get his help is Lisa Lancaster-an inexperienced girl who learns fast.

THE MOUNTAINS BREED 'EM BIG AND HARD-AND NO ONE'S BIGGER AND HARDER THAN... MOUNTAIN JACK PIKE!RANDY, ROUGH, AND ALWAYS AT THE READY THEY DON'T COME ANY HARDER THAN MOUNTAIN JACK PIKE!A brawling, broad-shouldered, bear of a man, he's the best dang trapper in the Rockies-a bigger-than-life mountain man with a nose for beaver and a taste for hard-living; he's Mountain Jack Pike!It was bad enough coming back from a beaver hunt empty-handed, but to make matters worse, someone had gone and burnt Pike's cabin to the ground and manhandled his pretty squaw Sun Rising. Needless to say, the hot-blooded Pike is fired up for revenge.The upstanding mountain man vows to track down the mangy range rats who defiled his happy homestead. But when he comes upon a pair of hot trail tramps with their own score to settle, Pike finds it hard to say no... especially when the luscious ladies bend over backwards to give him what he needs. Yet when morning rises so does Pike, just as hard as ever, and ready for an explosive climax that will guarantee the lusty mountain man comes out on top!

A BEAR OF A MAN, JACK PIKE HAS ALL THE NECESSARY TOOLS TO STAND HARD AND FASTThe Indians call him "he whose head touches the sky," the womenfolk call him whenever he's near. He's the biggest hunk of man-flesh in the Rockies; he's mountain man Jack Pike!When the famous Russian Ivan Koloff invites Pike to join him on a grizzly hunt, Pike has to think twice. Bears are best left alone, and besides, Pike's nose is for beaver. But one look at Koloff's curvaceous companion Vanya is all the persuading the hot-blooded mountain man needs. And who knows, Pike's beaver hunting skills just might bring him a new pelt on this trip.Sure enough, Vanya can't seem to stifle her hard-lovin' intentions, and Pike finds himself getting Russian bear hugs in his tent! But the mountain man gets shafted hard when Ivan deals him a card from the bottom of the deck: now Pike is going to be the game, and Ivan the hunter! Feeling like a mouse in a rattler's cage, Pike runs off into the wilds as the hunt begins. But just as he's on tarnation's doorstep, buxom Vanya bends over backwards to give Pike what he needs to come away clean!

MOUNTAINEERING BREEDS HARD MEN-AND THEY DON'T COME ANY HARDER THAN... MOUNTAIN JACK PIKEA bold and brawny trapper hungry for beaver, he's rough and ready mountain Jack Pike!A steel-fisted, bear of a man. Jack Pike is the toughest hunk of man-flesh the Rockies ever spawned. Men want to best him, women need to love him, and he always meets their challenges head on.When falling fur prices threaten to undo the trappers, hot-blooded Jack Pike and Skins McConnell head for St. Louis, headquarters of the big fur tradin' companies. But Pike and Skins are quick to learn that the price of beaver in the big city is high, maybe as much as a man's life. Then things get even stickier when the hard-lovin' Skins wakes up next to a dead woman-and lands head first in the hoosegow.Feeling like a fox in a chicken coop, Pike pokes around the bawdy house district, tryin' to clear his friend's name. He's about to come to blows when a prissy city-girl bends over backwards and gives Pike just what he needs to drive Skins' case home and free him once and for all!

Liz Archer-defying her nickname-is a devil of a shot.La Isla Bonita, a Mexican town of only women. Montalva, a ruthless bandit leader who wants to set up his revolutionary headquarters in that town. Liz Archer, aka "Angel Eyes," and Tate Gilmore, who share a contract to protect La Isla Bonita, as well as the same marksman skills, drives and bed.Add these up and throw in a few gunmen (who are happy to give the Bonita women training and a good dose of loving) and you've got yourself a hell of a fight. And a hell of a story.

Men fell prey to her angel eyes... and killing ways. Angel Eyes lights a Mexican fire in the name of American justice! Sleek and sexy Liz Archer is Angel Eyes-the most deadly and most beautiful gunfighter in the West. When she ties her orange bandana around her neck she threatens danger-when she removes it she promises incredible pleasure... REVENGE! When Angel Eyes hears that Tate Gilmore has been shot in the back she vows revenge. Following Tate's trail, she journeys toward Mexico fighting off desperate soldiers, gunslinging bandits, and with the help of handsome Carlos Valdez, long, lonely nights. Reunited with Tate they begin their quest to eliminate the desperadoes one by one.It's a hot time when Mexico meets its first Avenging Angel!

STALKING ANGELSleek and sexy Liz Archer is Angel Eyes - the fastest and most beautiful gunfighter in the West. When she puts on her orange bandana she threatens danger, when she removes it she promises incredible pleasure... Robbed of her money and belongings, Liz Archer gets a job with a traveling Wild West show as their sharpshooter. There she meets Billy Quick - named for his fast draw and bedroom manners - and teaches him a few tricks of her own. While the show makes the rounds of various frontier towns, she picks up the thieves' trail.Thirsting for vengeance, Angel Eyes confronts the bad guys, one by one, in violent duels that prove she's the best sharpshooter on and off the Wild West circuit!Men fell prey to her angel eyes... and killing ways.After a band of thieves robs her blind, Liz Archer sets out to teach them a lesson in manners they'll never forget.

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!

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!

An Epic novel of exotic rituals and the lure of the Upper AmazonSHE 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...

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The wise-cracking, one-eyed merc is in England to keep an eye on his journalist fiance, Bess... until someone orders her death and leaves him broken and bloody in a London alley with his brains so scrambled he can't remember his name. Unfortunately, Frost also forgets his discovery of a brutal terrorist plot. The only thing on his mind now is finding out who he is. What he doesn't know is that a secret organization known as The Legion Of Death is getting ready to write down Frost's name for him-on a gravestone!The Legion Of Death is planning something that will make the PLO and the Red Brigade look like a couple of church groups. And Hank Frost-an amnesiac, unaware of his own fighting skills-is caught right in the middle!

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!

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 merc 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.

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...

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...

YOU CAN'T STOP WHAT YOU CAN'T SEE...A NEW KIND OF WAR NEEDS A NEW KIND OF WEAPON-AND A NEW BREED OF WARRIOR.Deep in the Nevada desert, the latest evolution in modern warfare is being tested. The 201st Special Operations Wing is home to the new Strikemasters-C-17 transport planes converted into stealth-skinned airborne arsenals. Manned by ace pilots and technicians, and carrying a lethal complement of Abrams tanks, all-terrain fighting vehicles, combat helicopters, and boots-on-the-ground troopers, the Strikemasters are the ultimate fast-moving, hard-hitting weapon. And they are about to test their limits.A group of al Qaeda marauders has mercilessly destroyed a "forbidden" school for girls in the lawless mountains of Pakistan and abducted the aid workers. They plan to kill their hostages and sell the footage to the highest bidder. In their mountain stronghold, the captors think they are safe from any attack.The Strikemasters are about to prove them wrong...

A novel of the U.S. cavalry... A hero worthy of the finest military fiction TORN BETWEEN DUTY AND HONOR Christopher Columbus Colt, chief of scouts; and nephew of gun-maker Sam Colt was always the best man for the job. His skill with weapons was legendary, his service to the Seventh Cavalry invaluable. But as a friend to the Lakota Sioux and Chief Crazy Horse, Colt's loyalty to the Indians ran dangerously high. At Little Big Horn, by the side of General George Custer, Colt faced the hardest choice of his life: fight for a tyrant against overwhelming odds, or side with the warriors who planned a killing field that would live forever in infamy. Rich with the passion and adventure of real history, this is the roaring saga of frontier military life and of a hero who had to work above the law to uphold justice.