James Axler's Deathlands

This page is dedicated to the Deathlands story series. I will be adding information as time goes on. For those that are not familiar with the series, read on! Deathlands is a book series about post WWIII America, now known as Deathlands. The books run in order, some listen in order and follow the stories and some listen to them in random order. I would recommend going in order as the story does progress from book to book. You can order all of the Deathlands Audio Book titles from Graphic Audio's website. I have had good luck with both Ebay and Amazon.com for finding the paperbacks. Pictures of the Characters and other information is HERE. (SOME SPOILERS)
	*0: Encounter (Book Format Only)* The Trader Years Stories of the Trader and his convoy of war wagons endure in the badlands of post-holocaust America. A dealer in Deathlands most precious commodities - weapons and fuel - Trader takes note of a young Ryan Cawdor. Surrounded in myth and rumor, Trader sets into motion the beginnings of a legend at a place called Virtue Lake. Winner Take All At Spearpoint, the ultimate redoubt housing a valuable cache of predark technology, two opposing wills clash. Levi Shabazz intends to carve his own empire out of the vast wastelands, but the Trader intends to thwart him and end his bloody siege of power. It all comes to a head at Virtue Lake - a hard lesson for Trader and a grim rite of passage for Ryan Cawdor. Book: ISBN 0-373-81197-7 Note the table of contents.... there is a wealth of information about the Deathlands series, including information on the original concept and some of the thoughts on how they were to portray the main characters.
	1: Pilgrimage to Hell On a crisp January day, a Presidential inauguration day, a one-megaton blast ripped through the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C. Subsequent explosions around the globe changed the face and the shape of the earth forever. Out of the ruins emerged Deathlands, a world that conspired against survival. In the blasted heart of the new America, a group of men and women plan desperately to escape the eerie wastes and mutated life forms of their nuclear hell. Three warriors—the tough, intelligent Ryan Cawdor, an enigmatic beauty called Krysty Wroth, and the Armorer J. B. Dix—set out on a harrowing journey to find a rumored enclave high in the mountains. Their aim: to unlock the secrets of prewar scientific experiments that could hold the answer to survival in the Deathlands of the future. Listen to a Preview Note: Some versions of this book show James Axler as the Author, others show Jack Adrian. Approximate Running Time: 9 hours Audio Book ISBN: 1-59950-000-0 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-000-3 Release Date: October 2005 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62501-4
	2: Red Holocaust But the future in a world shrouded in the radioactive red dust clouds of a generation-old global nuclear war depends on finding hidden caches of food, weapons and technology—the legacy of a preholocaust society—stashed in lonely outposts known as redoubts. When Ryan Cawdor discovers a redoubt in the bitter freakish wasteland that now passes for Alaska, he also uncovers a new threat to a slowly reemerging America. Roaming bands of survivors have crossed the Bering Strait from Russia to pillage Alaska and use it as the staging ground for an impending invasion of America. In Deathlands, the war for domination is over, but the struggle for survival continues. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 5 hours ISBN: 1-59950-007-8 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-007-2 Release Date: November 2005 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62502-2
	3: Neutron Solstice A generation after a global nuclear war, Louisiana is a fetid, sullen landscape of impenetrable swamps and grotesquely mutated wildlife. Above the gnarled bayous, radioactive red dust clouds race across the sky on nuclear winds; below, thick mud sucks at a man's boots. Now and then a biting acid rain falls, swept in on the boiling winds from the Gulf. In the reeking swampland that was the Mississippi basin, neutron bombs have left barren cityscapes the territories of small groups of bitterly opposed survivors. Ryan Cawdor and his companions Krysty Wroth and J.B. Dix come upon one such group who are striving to revive life on earth the way it was before the bombs fell. But they're up against a post holocaust feudal lord who's just as determined to wipe them out. In the Deathlands, the world blew out in 2001. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 6 hours ISBN: 1-59950-009-4 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-009-6 Release Date: November 2005 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62503-0
	4: Crater Lake Near what was once the Pacific northwest, Ryan Cawdor and his roving band of post-holocaust survivors discover a beautiful valley untouched by the nuclear blast that changed the earth forever. Resisting the temptation to settle in that idyllic land, the group is captured and forced deep beneath an extinct volcano to an isolated community of in-bred scientists. These psychopathic descendants of a twentieth-century government research team are blindly laboring to find better ways of genocide, unaware that the world they are striving to slaughter has already died. In a frantic race to stop this bizarre society from testing its horrific weapons, Ryan realizes that if he fails an already nuke-scorched Earth faces another Armageddon. In the Deathlands the past and the future are clashing with frightening force. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 6 hours ISBN: 1-59950-013-2 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-013-3 Release Date: December 2005 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62504-9
	5: Homeward Bound Ryan Cawdor's post-holocaust odyssey across America is about to come full circle—Ryan Cawdor is going home. Forced away from Front Royal by a power-mad brother who had already committed fratricide, Ryan had roamed a devastated America searching out the small pockets of life where civilization was being reborn. Emerging from a gateway in the ruins of New York City, Ryan decides to put his own house in order—it's time to avenge the deaths of his father and older brother. Accompanied by Krysty Wroth and J.B. Dix, Ryan Cawdor comes face-to-face with the harsh reality of post-nuclear America. In the Deathlands, honor and fair play are words of the past. Vengeance is a word to live by. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 8 hours ISBN: 1-59950-015-9 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-015-7 Release Date: December 2005 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62505-7
	6: Pony Soldiers Ryan Cawdor and his band of post-holocaust survivors come face-to-face with a specter from the past: out of the swirling dust that was once New Mexico bursts a regiment of pony soldiers, led by a man with flowing yellow hair. Brandishing Colts and Winchesters, the horsemen grimly prepare to destroy the ragtag strangers, intruders who dare to penetrate their ruthlessly defended stronghold. As the final showdowns nears, Ryan makes a startling discovery: either he and his companions have chron-jumped back to the 1800s, or General George Custer has been catapulted into the twenty-second century.. Listen to a Preview Audio Book: Approximate Running Time: 7 hours ISBN: 1-59950-019-1 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-019-5 Release Date: January 2006 Paperback: ISBN 0-373-62506-5
	7: Dectra Chain The world blew out in 2001. Vast areas of what was the United States lie beneath an umbrella of noxious dust and radioactive debris, a mantle of destruction drawn over a land of doom. Much of the East Coast has been obliterated; the Southwest is a land of fire; cities of smoldering ash have given birth to horrifically mutated life forms. Such is the Deathlands, legacy of global annihilation. But there were survivors, struggling to overcome a dark new age of plague, radiation sickness, barbarism and madness. Out of the ruins come Ryan Cawdor and his band of post-holocaust survivors, whose odyssey of discovery takes them in search of other pockets of civilization. Emerging from a gateway in Maine, Ryan confronts a ruthless and brutal sea captain, a woman prepared to go to any lengths to get what she wants... Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 8 hours ISBN: 1-59950-025-6 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-025-6 Release Date: February 2006 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62507-3
	8: Ice and Fire Snakefish, California, is rich in the currency of post-holocaust America—gasoline. Almost leveled by the Soviet missiles that annihilated most of the West Coast, Snakefish is in the midst of a reconstruction, financed by a commodity far more valuable than the usual Deathlands jack. But greed and man's lust for power threaten to shatter the hard-won peace and tranquility of this fledgling community as disparate factions fight for control of the substance that will give them wealth beyond their wildest dreams. Ryan Cawdor and his companions emerge from a gateway and step into the path of a smoldering war for power. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 8 hours ISBN: 1-59950-027-2 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-027-0 Release Date: February 2006 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62508-1
	9: Red Equinox Three generations after nuclear blasts all but vaporized the Earth, a group of warrior survivalists led by a charismatic man named Ryan Cawdor roam the hostile environment called Deathlands. Their quest becomes a grim struggle for survival as they search for a better life beyond the nuke-ravaged cities. And it is one such harrowing journey that brings them to the heart of Moscow. Beneath a mantle of chemical clouds an strontium snow, the former jewel in Russia's crown is teeming with a bizarre mix of mutated beings and old enemies all intent on killing Ryan and his band of post-holocaust survivors. A new dark age has dawned with the hope of a promised land. But in the Deathlands, hope is not enough. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 7 hours ISBN: 1-59950-030-2 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-030-0 Release Date: March 2006 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62509-X
	10: Northstar Rising A generation after a global nuclear catastrophe, Minnesota is a steamy tropical environment of lush plants and horrifically mutated insects. Emerging torn and battered after a triple jump through the gateways, Ryan Cawdor and his band of post-holocaust survivors discover an abandoned cryonics complex—a doomed fantasy begun a century before in a world far away from Deathlands. Dr. Mildred Wyeth is successfully revived from subzero suspended animation and joins the team of warrior survivalists. In the jungles of Minnesota, the group discovers yet another freakish legacy of a world cone hideously wrong: Vikings. In the Deathlands, the past and the future are clashing with frightening force. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 7 hours ISBN: 1-59950-032-9 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-032-4 Release Date: March 2006 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62510-3
	11: Time Nomads In the blasted heart of the new America, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior-survivalists search for hidden caches of food, weapons and technology—the legacy of a pre holocaust society—stashed in lonely outposts known as redoubts. When Ryan ingests bacteria-infested food, he lies near death—his body paralyzed but his mind traveling rapidly back to his early days in the Deathlands...moving through the southwest on post-nuke vehicles called warwags...and his run-in with the Baron. Towse, near what was once Albuquerque, is a ville in a freakishly beautiful landscape populated by scabbies and armed Apaches. Baron Alias Carson and his bejeweled wife, Sharona, welcome Ryan, J.B. Dix and the Tracker to their treacherous world. In the Deathlands the past is a dream. The future is a nightmare. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 7 hours ISBN: 1-59950-086-8 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-086-7 Release Date: May 2006 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62511-1
	12: Latitude Zero Generations after a near nuclear annihilation, America is a radiation-ravaged wasteland swarming with a thousand horrifically mutated life forms. Ryan Cawdor and his band of post-holocaust survivors barely escape a self-destructing redoubt in the new southwest and embark on a journey overland to find the nearest gateway. But without an adequate supply of food and water, their quest is doomed. Ryan strikes a deal with the leader of a wagon train heading west: protection against all attackers in exchange for food and water. It is a deal that pits the one-eyed warrior against his oldest enemy—a sadistic, ruthless man who would stop at nothing to get his hands on Ryan Cawdor. In the Deathlands, everyone and everything is fair game, but only the strongest survive. Listen to a Preview Approximate Running Time: 7 hours ISBN: 1-59950-088-4 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-088-1 Release Date: May 2006 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62512-X
	13: Seedling America's post-holocaust nightmare continues as Ryan Cawdor returns to the monstrous urban slum that was once New York City...and discovers a piece of the future... As the roaming band of survivors seek desperately to escape the eerie wastes and mutated life-forms of their nuclear hell, they emerge from a gateway back into the ruins of Manhattan—the concrete battlefield where Ryan had avenged the death of his father and older brother. The city is a flooded hell zone ruled by street gangs and hordes of reptilian mutants who inhabit the sewers. Under this urban ruin lives the self-styled King of the Underground, presiding over his subterranean fortress filled with pre nuke memorabilia. And here, in this once great metropolis, lives a ten-year-old boy. He is Ryan Cawdor's son... The children shall inherit the Earth. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 6 hours ISBN: 1-59950-107-4 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-107-9 Release Date: June 2006 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62513-8
	14: Dark Carnival Out of the ashes of global destruction, Ryan Cawdor and his roving band of warrior survivalists continue their grim odyssey across a nuke-ravaged America, searching for a sanctuary and the promise of a better life. Emerging from a Gateway into Florida's sultry heat, they enter the domain of a wealthy baron—a technical gen ious whose seat of power is a rebuilt theme park where the rides are fast and thrill seekers are guaranteed the time of their lives...if they can get out alive. Influencing the baron is a ruthless and hypnotic cult leader and his demonic "family," whose murderous games trap Ryan into a midnight killing spree...with only one way out. In the Deathlands, the future is a dream. Reality is a nightmare. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 7 hours ISBN: 1-59950-108-2 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-108-6 Release Date: June 2006 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62514-6
	15: Chill Factor America's legacy of annihilation continues for Ryan Cawdor and his band of post-apocalypse survivors on a quest to find a peaceful new life. Trekking through the ruins of a devastated America, they search for secrets of the past that might promise a future. This is the odyssey called Deathlands. Ryan travels to the snowy wastes north of the forty-ninth parallel to rescue his young son, enslaved in a mining colony. In this forbidding landscape, one of Ryan's oldest enemies lies in wait, orchestrating a deadly finale to their private war. In the biting cold, Ryan must battle a legion of hunter androids designed to track and kill any intruders with ruthless ingenuity. But for Ryan Cawdor, the need to save his son is greater than any threat the one-eyed warrior may encounter. Welcome to the Deathlands, where you don't have to die to go to hell. Listen to a Preview Audio CD: Approximate Running Time: 7 hours ISBN: 1-59950-087-6 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-087-4 Release Date: July 2006 Book: ISBN 0-373-62515-4
	16: Moon Fate Generations have passed since a nuclear blast all but turned America to dust. Out of the ruins emerges a band of warrior-survivalists, led by a one-eyed man called Ryan Cawdor. In their quest to find a better life, they embark on a perilous odyssey across the ravaged wasteland known as Deathlands. An ambush by a roving group of mutant Stickies puts Ryan and Krysty Wroth in the clutches of a tyrant who plans a human sacrifice as a symbol of his power. The execution is set to take place at the new moon—one night away. Ryan devises an escape plan but is betrayed by another prisoner. As they break for freedom, the Stickie leader unleashes a team of hunter-trackers among the maze of narrow canyons of the Southwest. For Ryan and Krysty, there's nowhere left to run... In the Deathlands, the only thing that gets easier is dying. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 7 hours ISBN: 1-59950-103-1 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-103-1 Release Date: July 2006 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62516-2
	17: Fury's Pilgrims A bad jump from a near-space Gateway leaves Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists in the devastated heart of the American Midwest. Moving through the ruins in the safety of an abandoned war wag, they discover a small community that was once the sprawling metropolis of Chicago. The town seems devoid of life, until the first night, when Krysty Wroth vanishes without a trace. Then the group is attacked, leaving Doc Tanner gravely wounded. Ryan realizes that someone, or something, wants them gone—or dead. He captures an attacker and learns that the town is run by a tribe of nocturnal female mutants. But not even torture yields any word of Krysty. Ryan fears for her life, especially since she's a woman. In the Deathlands, life is a contest where the only victor is death. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 7 hours ISBN: 1-59950-103-9 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-103-7 Release Date: August 2006 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62517-0
	18: Shockscape Emerging from a gateway into the snowy barrens of the Colorado Rockies, Ryan Cawdor and his warrior group are forced to strike a deal for survival. This part of white hell is controlled by Baron Nelson, a grief-ridden widower burning for vengeance against the hired killers who murdered his boy. Not far from Nelson's barony lies Yuma, a nasty hellhole every bad man in the Rockies calls home. Ryan, Doc and J.B. Dix begin a perilous journey across desolate mountains to Yuma to capture and deliver the boy's killers back to the baron. The odds are not good: if the mutant grizzlies and roving marauders don't get them, the sadistic gun toughs in Yuma will. In the Deathlands, survival is a gamble. Death is the only sure bet. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 5 hours ISBN: 1-59950-138-4 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-138-3 Release Date: September 2006 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62518-9
	19: Deep Empire Once an idyllic chain of inlets running from Key Largo to Key West, the Florida Keys have become an isolated universe of grotesquely mutated wildlife and bizarre submarine malformations. Blind seventy-foot sea snakes lurk among the reefs around underwater volcanoes, while typhoons and pirates turn the crystal waters above into a death zone. But Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior-survivalists find a slice of heaven in this ocean hell at a marine research center created to further the amazing promise of the dolphins. Here, a brilliant scientist offers the perfect vacation of sun, fishing and fun. Until Ryan discovers this post-holocaust aquatic paradise is a hoax—and gentle dolphins are being mutated into killers. Welcome to the Deathlands, and the future nobody planned for. Listen to a Preview Approximate Running Time: 7 hours ISBN: 1-59950-139-2 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-139-0 Release Date: September 2006 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62519-7
	20: Cold Asylum Generations after global annihilation, Kansas is a mutated landscape of dense, deciduous forest. Gone are the amber waves of grain, another hideous result of nuclear devastation that changed the face of the Earth forever. Now it's survival of the freakish. Following rumors that might lead them to the long-lost Trader, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists find themselves the unwilling houseguest's of the wealthiest barons in all of Deathlands. At Baron Mandeville's opulent homestead, a glittering ornate fortress called Sun Crest, a secret and perverted game continues: gladiator contests among the guests. The winners get to play the ultimate life-and-death game—a hunt in which they are the quarry. Hope died in the Deathlands, but the will to live goes on. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 7 hours ISBN: 1-59950-176-7 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-176-5 Release Date: October 2006 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62520-0
	21: Twilight Children Survival is an endless battle in the dark age of post-holocaust America, but even amid the ashes of the past, new pockets of civilization emerge, fledgling communities bound by savage rules. Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior-survivalists are transported from one Valley of the Shadow of Death to another, shaken by the mind-bending effects of the mat-trans, emerging at last into a promised land whose inhabitants are healthy and young. The ville is an oasis in a blighted land, but among the blond, blue-eyed near-children, Ryan and his wayfarers are pariahs destined to find out that the quest for Paradise exacts a steep price. In the Deathlands, the future looks terminally brief. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 6 hours ISBN: 1-59950-178-3 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-178-9 Release Date: January 2007 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62521-9
	22: Rider, Reaper The red-baked mountains of New Mexico offer a peaceful interlude for Ryan Cawdor, and a reunion with Jak Lauren. But in the violent post-holocaust world of Deathlands, survival is a blood-soaked game—and Ryan's idyll becomes a mission of revenge. The quarry is the General and his band of paramilitary killers. Roving and plundering the Southwest, the General travels with an unsurpassed armory, his troops unchallenged, his agenda unstoppable. Allied with local vengeance-hungry Indians, Ryan Cawdor and his warrior survivalists begin a cross-desert manhunt on horseback through the acrid canyon lands, where danger waits in the form of fifteen-foot rattlesnakes, acid-rain hurricanes—and a man who grimly prepares to destroy his pursuers. Hope died in the Deathlands, but the will to live goes on. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 6 hours ISBN: 1-59950-187-2 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-187-1 Release Date: March 2007 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62522-7
	23: Road Wars Emerging out of the ashes of the nuclear apocalypse, no one has been more successful and determined than Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists. But if the wasteland's endless miles come between them, the odds for getting back together again—for their very survival—are not in their favor. A cryptic message regarding the long-missing Trader sends Ryan and the Armorer on an odyssey to the Pacific Northwest, away from their base, away from their band of warrior survivalists, away from Krysty Wroth. While Ryan battles the blood-hungry predators of the road, back in New Mexico, Krysty Wroth and the others fight off attacks against their weakened group in an all-out struggle for survival. In the Deathlands, fate and chance are clashing with frightening force. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 7 hours ISBN: 1-59950-319-0 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-319-6 Release Date: May 2007 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62523-5 Note: For the CD, they flipped the image for some reason. Both CD and book shown.
	24: Trader Redux Ruled by a perverse and malevolent Nature, roamed by lawless remnants of humanity, the Deathlands is what's left of the continental U.S. after a nuclear apocalypse unleashed hell on earth. Here, only a few can survive and still retain hope for the future, and of these, none are more determined than the exiled son of a coastal baron and his closely knit band of warrior survivalists. The years of struggle in the new reality made Ryan Cawdor a bold and undisputed leader, but now he may have to contend with his former mentor, the enigmatic Trader. Together with J. B. Dix and Abe, they make a perilous journey down the mighty Colorado, and in the Grand Canyon's mile-deep crags, a degenerate barony and mutie death traps test the limits of the group's survival skills. Weary and torn from their cross-country trek, they return to their stronghold in New Mexico to find it abandoned, with no sign of Krysty Wroth, Dean or the others... Imagine your worst nightmare. It's called Deathlands. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 7 hours ISBN: 1-59950-336-0 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-336-3 Release Date: July 2007 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62524-3
	25: Genesis Echo Deathlands is a world savaged beyond recognition by a centuries-old nuclear blast. While many prosper on the savagery of this lawless land, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists carry the seeds of hope and courage in a daring quest to find the gateway to the future... The warrior survivalists are reluctant guests in a reactivated twentieth-century medical institute in Maine. Here scientists still pursue their abstract theories, oblivious to the realities of a world gone mad. But when they take an unhealthy interest in Krysty Wroth, the pressure is on to find a way out of this guarded enclave. Before they can escape, Ryan's loyalty will be tested, and Krysty's special powers may threaten her very existence. In the Deathlands, the war for domination is over, but the struggle for survival continues. Listen to a Preview Approximate Running Time: 7 hours ISBN: 1-59950-354-9 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-354-7 Release Date: August 2007 Paperback ISBN 0-373-625251
	26: Shadowfall The nuclear conflagration that consumed the world generations ago stripped away most of its bounty, throwing survivors back to more savage ways of existence. Amid the ruins, Ryan Cawdor leads the daring few who wage a grim battle in a quest for a better future. As elsewhere in the Deathlands, what remains of the Sunshine State is rules by tooth and claw and unbridled instinct. It's an alien, inhospitable terrain of sulphur pits and lethal geysers, inhabited by mutated life-forms. Here Ryan finds that survival demands hard and fast choices, and unexpected alliances. To hold his band of warrior survivalists together, he comes to an agonizing crossroads, torn by a debt to the past and loyalty to the present. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 7 hours ISBN: 1-59950-372-7 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-372-1 Release Date: October 2007 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62526-X
	27: Ground Zero Deathlands is a desolate and mute testimony to the aftermath of the nuclear blasts that laid waste the earth. Wayfarers in their blighted world, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists search for a better future in the devastated ruins of a once-proud land. The radiation-poisoned hellhole is their home, and they are determined to defend it from the predatory foreigners emerging from a gateway. And where its proud heart, the city of Washington, had stood, Ryan Cawdor faces double jeopardy posed by a barbaric baron, and the indifferent wrath of nature. In the Deathlands, everyone and everything is fair game, but only the strong survive. Listen to a Preview Approximate Running Time: 7 hours ISBN: 1-59950-381-6 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-381-3 Release Date: November 2007 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62527-8
	28: Emerald Fire The global apocalypse of 2001 did not destroy the world—only a way of life. Now, three generations after the blast, the indomitable human spirit struggles against the devastation and hopelessness. For one band of survivors, hope lies in hidden gateways, portals to uncertain places of salvation or doom. The Amazon Basin remains a land of primordial beauty and primitive people. Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists emerge from a gateway into an abandoned U.S., military complex, now a native shrine to the white gods of pre-blast days. Here the group is given royal treatment, only to discover that privilege has a blood price. In the Deathlands, you're always too far from home.... Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 6 hours ISBN: 1-59950-399-8 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-399-8 Release Date: January 2008 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62528-6
	29: Bloodlines In the aftermath of the apocalypse little remains except age-old evils of greed, perversion and force. But a small group of survivalists cherishes the legacy of human courage and hope. led by the charismatic Ryan Cawdor, they persevere in a brutal world through warrior skills and a bold desire to regain the promised future. The fertile bayous teem with mutant life-forms and altered species. Off on a trek with his son, Ryan fends off the dangers from marauders and Nature's traps, but also finds signs of hope for humanity's new future. But the ultimate threat comes upon them in an unguarded moment, shocking in its scope and casting more blame on generations past. Approximate Running Time: 6 hours Audio Book ISBN: 1-59950-407-3 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-407-0 Release Date: February 2008 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62529-4
	30: Crossways Fallout As the twenty-second century emerges from the blight of nuclear damnation, humanity is slowly coming to terms with the bizarre new world of Deathlands, where each new generation holds the promise of renewal and redemption - in men like Ryan Cawdor and his son, Dean. Home Sweet Hell Ryan Cawdor and companions emerge from a gateway into the ravaged world of the Rockies. Its old hunting grounds for Ryan the the Titan-haired Krysty Wroth - her home, and the place where they first came together. Here Ryan has an unsettling choice to make, and Krysty a debt to pay. But her mother Sonja may be long gone, and the past becomes a trap as they press toward Harmony, a marauding gang hard on their trail. Hope died in the Deathlands, but the will to live goes on. Paperback ISBN 0-373-62530-8
	31: Keepers of the Sun Earth Lament The nuclear storm that swept the globe has left behind the Deathlands, a legacy of hate and violence. Pockets of survivors live off the ravaged land or on stockpiles found in redoubts. But from out of these ashes, a fearless man spearheads the drive to pierce the heart of darkness.... Strangers in a Strange Land The gateways are secret installations from predark days used by Ryan Cawdor and his group as escape routes. Once again the warrior survivalists emerge from a jump and into a world - an empire fallen - rules by the samurai code. And here Ryan has to face a new threat that could destroy the only home they know. A new dark age has dawned with the hope of a promised land. But in the Deathlands, hope is not enough. Paperback ISBN 0-373-62531-6
	32: Circle Thrice Gray Dawn The dark frontier of the twenty second century is lawless and oppressive, but humanity is slowly beginning to carve out new beginnings in the midst of this brutal, nuke-altered world. In pockets of civilization called villes, peace and hope start to flourish. But law and order invite what's evil and corrupt. Deadly Nightshade Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists are guests of a powerful Tennessee baroness and her mysterious advisor at her ville on what was once the mighty Mississippi. Beautiful and alluring, the baroness is skilled in the dark arts, and she will do anything to secure her future. In the Deathlands, when hope is not enough, the laws of survival are called into play. Paperback ISBN 0-373-62532-4
	33: Eclipse at Noon When the world was launched into Hell The nuclear exchange that ripped apart the world destroyed a way of life thousands of years in the making. Now, generations after the nuclear blight, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists try to reclaim the hostile land, led by an undimmed vision of a better future. Hard on the heels of their escape, from a powerful baroness, the wayfarers arrive at the shore of the mighty Mississippi. As if whisked back in time, they find themselves passengers no a riverboat plying the waters and offering every gambling pleasure. Its a high old time with the genial captain, until the stakes escalate to nightmare proportions and Ryan is sold to the highest bidder. Its winner take all in he Deathlands. Book: ISBN 0-373-62533-2
	34: Stoneface Pity the Living In 2001, the face of the earth changed forever in a nuclear firestorm. Generations after the apocalypse, Ryan Cawdor leads the courageous struggle for survival in a brutal world, striving to make a difference in the battle raging between good and evil. Cast a Cold Shadow On scared aboriginal land, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists discover Mount Rushmore still standing, a symbol of a long-gone power. Here a charismatic baron and his followers force Ryan to breach the icy fastness of the mountain stronghold, which harbors a cache of twentieth-century technology - and a chilling surprise from the past. In the Deathlands, the war is over.... but the fight has just begun. Paperback ISBN 0-373-62534-0
	35: Bitter Fruit After Skydark In the nuclear-storm devastated Deathlands a warrior survivalist of the twenty-second century leads the relentless fight to reclaim a lost world. Stone Guardians Barely escaping from a marauding gang, Ryan Cawdor and his band of post-holocaust survivors emerge from a gateway into an idyllic community ruled by Druidic law. But this new Eden may be a mirage, concealing a deadly threat. For the seed of dissent had been sown in the past, and is again ready to destroy. Nature rules in the Deathlands, but man still destroys. Paperback ISBN 0-373-62535-9
	36: Skydark Punishment It's now generations after the firestorm that nearly consumed the earth, but the survivors haven't yet finished paying for the sins of the fathers. All of life suffered, and of those that survived, not all survived well. This cradle of life is not home to forms fallen far from their human inheritance. Pillage and Run Fear spreads like wildfire through the wastelands when an army of mutants, led by a charismatic and powerful lord, goes on the rampage. As panic and infighting cripple the baronies, Ryan Cawdor and his warrior survivalists must fine a way to unite them before the human race is wiped off the face of the earth. In the Deathlands, the future is just beginning. Paperback ISBN 0-373-62536-7
	37: Demons of Eden Lost World The legacy of the twentieth century was the world wasting nuclear firestorm that destroyed a way of life forever. Civilization is in ruins, its a pitiful remnants perverted by brute force, and mankind is less at home on the planet than ever before. Yet in the desolation that is the Deathlands, an intrepid group of wayfarers continues the determined fight for survival and a better future. Through a mirror Leaving a western ville besieged by desert pirates in search of the legendary city's of the Spanish conquistadors, Ryan Cawdor and his warrior survivalists enter a hidden valley untouched by civilization. Here the descendants of the First People are at one with Nature, following their sacred and mystical traditions. But deep in the valley is an awesome force, a power that can freely heal... or wantonly destroy. In the Deathlands life is locked in mortal combat, and the only way out is the future. Paperback ISBN 0-373-62537-5
	38: The Mars Arena Catalyst The nuclear firestorms had swept away the hatreds and the power struggles that had dominated the Earth for decades. But no hoped-for better reality was born in that blighted landscape. In a lawless and maddened world, blood and violence remained a means to survival - and power. Sporting Chance In the harsh territory near what used to be the Western badlands, Ryan Cawdor and his crew join the search for the wreck of a crashed space station. But in the ruins of Las Vegas he falls prey to a maelstrom of violence. Hostage in a bitter war between regional barons, Ryan finds that even his best effort is an odds-even gamble, and that his sons life may depend on the whims of destiny. Deathlands is a conspiracy against survival... Paperback ISBN 0-373-62538-3
	39: Watersleep Through Fiery Hell In the altered reality of the Deathlands, America's coastal waters haven't escaped the ravages of the nukecast, but the awesome power of the oceans still rules here. It's a power that will let ryan Cawdor, first among post holocaust survivors, ride the crest of victory - or consign his woman to the raging depths. And High Water Emerging from a gateway on the ruins of the Georgia coastline, Ryan Cawdor and his warriors survivalists embark on a voyage up the Atlantic coast. But treachery awaits as they're beset by pirates, then a violent storm that pulls Krysty Wroth and Jak Lauren beneath the waves. Now Ryan must contend with a self-proclaimed Lord of the sea as he struggles to reclaim what's his from a watery grave. In the Deathlands, there's no waking from the nightmare.... Paperback ISBN 0-373-62539-1
	40: Nightmare Passage Uncharted Depths Life is precarious in post apocalyptic America, threatened by the toxic environment and the return to savagery. Born into this bleak reality, Ryan Cawdor roams the hell trails of Deathlands with his band of warrior survivalists. All they know is to endure and seize whatever chance they get for a better tomorrow. Desert Mirage In the sands of California's Guadeloupe Desert, Ryan and companions fear they have crossed time lines when they stumble upon a settlement straight out of fabled Egypt. What they find is a rebellion against an aspiring god king who wants to enslave them. To overcome an enemy with unusual powers, Ryan must bide his time through his every instinct is to strike out in rage. In the Deathlands, no one has met the ultimate foe. Paperback: ISBN 0-373-62540-5
	41 Freedom Lost The Wastelands Deathlands is a raw wound on the body of America that's scavenged by desperate survivors. Life is a bitter struggle in this lawless post holocaust world, and here Ryan Cawdor and his warrior survivalists face the ultimate challenge - to preserve their lives yet hold on to their humanity. Close to Home... and Hell Following up rumors of trouble on his old home ground, Ryan Cawdor and his band seek shelter inside the walls of what was once the largest shopping mall in the Carolinas. The baron of the concrete fortress gives them no choice but to join his sec teams. As outside invaders step up their raids on the mall, Ryan has to battle both sides for a chance to save their lives. For all its evils, Deathlands is the future's last and only hope. Paperback ISBN 0-373-62541-3
	42: Way of the Wolf Inherit the Earth The bleak nightmare of the nuclear winter has abated, but the earth is scarred, its ecosystems poisoned, many of its life forms mutated and struggling for existence. Here, in the torn remnants of America, Ryan Cawdor and his warrior survivalists stake their claim as inheritors of Deathlands, their unforgiving world. Wind Chill Looking for a respite after a bitter struggle in Kentucky's Hazard ville, the wayfarers must make do with Arctic tundra and earthquakes. Trapped in the hostile landscape by a mat-trans jump, Ryan and companions find the ultimate challenge to their will to survive. The odds dwindle when they become the new bounty in a struggle for dominance between a group of Neanderthals and descendants of a military garrison stranded generations ago. Deathlands. A perilous journey through uncharted territory. Paperback ISBN 0-373-62542-1
	43: Dark Emblem Transformed by the nuclear conflict of 2001, the earth had turned into a wasteland ruled by anarchy and barbarism. Heirs in this blighted world, Ryan Cawdor and his warrior wayfarers fight for survival... and a way to restore humanity's lost promise. The preholocaust redoubts housing the dangerous and unpredictable mat-trans units are the legacy of the whitecoat scientists and their precocious knowledge. For the very few in the know, the network of redoubts serves as an escape route and transport through the bleak landscape. Emerging remarkably unscathed after a mat-trans jump, Ryan and his wayfarers are welcomed by Dr. Silas Jamaisvous in his fortress among the ruins of San Juan. This man of science may hold a vital key to the future, but is he an icon of hope or a dark emblem of the past? In the Deathlands, time can kill or save... Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 7 hours ISBN: 1-59950-004-3 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-004-1 Release Date: April 2006 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62543-X
	44: Crucible of Time In the Centuries after the nuclear devastation of America, life favors those who maintain their fighting edge in the lawless wastelands. In a nearly untouched remnant of California, a land of pines and roaring rivers, forgetfulness is tempting for a much-tried band of warrior survivalists. But Ryan Cawdor, son of an East Coast Baron, knows that in the Deathlands even a tiny glimpse of heaven can be a portal to hell. An insular group of fanatics calling itself the Children of the Rock is leaving a trail of barbarism and a growing tide of hate in it's wake. The leader of the cult is connected to Ryan's past—to Trader and the war wagon days. Littered with victors and losers, it's a past some can't walk away from... In this haven in a ravaged country, Ryan and his warrior wayfarers find that new laws of survival have emerged. In the Deathlands, the wrong move buys eternity. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 6 hours ISBN: 1-59950-188-0 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-188-8 Release Date: November 2006 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62544-8
	45: Starfall The forbidding world of Deathlands is the legacy of a doomed age. How it came to be—and why—are questions lost in the wreckage of post-apocalyptic reality. Though survival in this strange and surreal new world conspires to crush the human spirit, hope is not dead for Ryan Cawdor's survivalist warriors. But staying alive requires a ready weapon and a willingness to kill. Krysty Wroth's sentient power comes under psychic attack by a mortally wounded doomie desperate to find a new vessel for her mystical abilities, placing Ryan's group in double jeopardy. As the group flees a firefight in Idaho, escaping upriver with the ragged survivors of a savaged ville, the voyage through the mutie-infested waters leads to a confrontation with a baron whose discovery of pre-dark space technology may lead them to the shocking truth of the legacy of Deathlands... Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 6 hours ISBN: 1-59950-391-3 ISBN-13: 978-1-59950-391-2 Release Date: December 2007 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62545-6
	46: Gemini Rising After two centuries of nuclear blight, a new America is emerging, forged by those seeking peace and hope for the future. Pocket communities, ruled by local barons, have become the new centers of civilization...and power. But while many desire prosperity, others embrace ideas of ultimate domination. The son of a powerful baron, Ryan Cawdor has chosen his own path through the Deathlands. Now rumors of trouble bring him home to West Virginia, where he'd left his nephew Nathan at the head of the barony. But a welcoming committee is waiting for him with a band of sec men, and a usurper of the Cawdor name. Unable to help a mysteriously ailing Krysty Wroth, Ryan challenges two of his oldest enemies in their grim gambit to control the East Coast Baronies. In the Deathlands, power is the ultimate weapon... Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 9 hours ISBN: 1-933059-50-8 ISBN-13: 978-1-933059-50-1 Release Date: October 2004 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62546-4
	47: Gaia's Demise Two centuries after the nukecaust, consolidation of power is the goal for those who would rule the slowly emerging new America. Ryan Cawdor has spent his lifetime roaming the Deathlands, seeking out the secrets of pre-dark Technology. But so have others who are now the future's greatest threat. For a sinister cadre has dared to seize power...and damn Deathlands to a new kind of hell. Ryan's quest to destroy a secret plot to unite the East Coast Baronies under one totalitarian rule brings his intrepid band of survivors to Tennessee. The conspiracy thread leads back to the spectra of the Anthill and a super weapon from pre-dark days. As radio waves manipulating the environment and the human brain doom psi-sensitive Krysty, Ryan challenges baron Silas Jamaisvous to a daring showdown for America's survival. In the Deathlands, power is the ultimate weapon... Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 9 hours ISBN: 1-933059-51-6 ISBN-13: 978-1-933059-51-8 Release Date: October 2004 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62547-2
	48: Dark Reckoning Secrets of the preDark era haunt Deathlands and so do visions of a better life in this post-apocalyptic world. Ryan Cawdor and his wayfarer companions roam the Deathlands, driven to survive and lured by rumors of lost technology—the key to renewed hope and prosperity. Yet others have visions, too. Those whose genius has been twisted into quests for power and ultimate domination—mankind's blight since the dawn of humanity. A new center of power has emerged in post-holocaust America. A secret community of scientists has control of an orbiting transformer that in a single step could return electricity to America—or become the ultimate weapon of terror. But there are those equally dedicated to halting the evil mastermind before he can incinerate Front Royal. And they've turned to Ryan Cawdor to save them from a fate worse than Deathlands. In the Deathlands, power is the ultimate weapon... Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 9 hours ISBN: 1-933059-52-4 ISBN-13: 978-1-933059-52-5 Release Date: October 2004 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62548-0
	49: Shadow World The hell-scape of post nuclear America has a bloodlust for the good, the innocent and the helpless. Survival in Deathlands demands a will to endure that is as raw and savage as this brutal frontier. For Deathlands is the future's last and only hope—for both its inheritors and strange invaders to whom this perdition promises a paradise. Ryan Cawdor is a true warrior of Deathlands, fighting for survival in a bizarre, freakish world. But now, beyond the unseen perils, a new threat emerges: invaders arrive from a parallel earth where the nukecaust never happened. Ryan is abducted through a time corridor to the twin earth, where he discovers a nightmare that makes Deathlands look tame by comparison—and a new plot for its grotesque destruction... In the Deathlands the future is uncertain, but it's all that remains. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 8 hours ISBN: 1-933059-56-7 ISBN-13: 978-1-933059-56-3 Release Date: November 2004 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62559-6
	50: Pandora's Redoubt In the post-holocaust wastelands of 22nd-centry America, precious little remains of life before the nuclear blowout. Legends circulate of Redoubts, secret pre-Dark military bases with caches of food, medicine and, most important, weapons. Yet only a few of the ragged elite possess the arcane knowledge that enables them to locate and access these valuable storehouses. In a hidden redoubt in Ohio, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists take possession of the ultimate Deathlands War Wag—a crude but effective tank called Leviathan. But having this steel-plated behemoth is a double-edged sword when they fall into the trap of Lady Ward of Novaville, who wants Leviathan for her own means of destruction and domination. In the Deathlands, the future is just an idea. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 8 hours ISBN: 1-933059-57-5 ISBN-13: 978-1-933059-57-0 Release Date: November 2004 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62560-X
	51: Rat King Fractured Reality What was once the United States is now the rad-blasted world of Deathlands... a place that more than lives up to its name. Led by a one-eyed warrior called ryan Cawdor, a straggling band of survivors roams the nuke-ravaged land, honing their survival skills in a wasteland where danger lurks over the next hill. Emerging into one of the pre-dark installations known as redoubts, the group is taken prisoner in a fully functioning army base operated in a parody of life before the blowout. Its occupants are inbred soldiers, a legacy to the lost secrets of the Totality Concept. Led by the mad general of an obscene military project, the base has found its last hope in the ragtag bunch, a fate that may be even more horrifying than the hell they have survived. In the Deathlands nothing is certain.. especially the future. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 8 hours ISBN: 1-933059-60-5 ISBN-13: 978-1-933059-60-0 Release Date: December 2004 Paperback: ISBN 0-373-62561-8
	52: Zero City The nuclear Armageddon of 2001 put the world on an odyssey of savage rebirth. Now, little more than a hundred years after the blast, the quest for power is viciously embraced by America's new masters, barons commanding fortresses called villes, policed by stone hearts called sec men. But even in this dark new world, heroes and legends are emerging. One of them is a warrior survivalist named Ryan Cawdor, believed to possess pre-apocalyptic knowledge that holds hope for a beleaguered future. Hungry and exhausted, Ryan and his band emerge from a redoubt into a remarkably untouched predark city, and uncover a cache of weapons and food. But the group is not alone. Among other interlopers, the city is guarded by huge winged creatures, protecting the grisly secrets of a nearby barony. Holed up inside an old government building, where Ryan's son, Dean, lies near death, Ryan and Krysty must raid the treacherous ville across the desert where a local baron uses human flesh as fertilizer. In the Deathlands, evil is unstoppable. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 8 hours ISBN: 1-933059-61-3 ISBN-13: 978-1-933059-61-7 Release Date: December 2004 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62562-6
	53: Savage Armada A nuclear apocalypse almost destroyed Western civilization in 2001, leaving in its place the forbidding world of Deathlands. though the human spirit has not been broken, the new rules of survival are harsh and barbaric. As barons fight for power in a savage new America, power is claimed with the salvaged arsenals of a predark world: weapons, gasoline and those willing to kill. The Marshall Islands, once the testing grounds for twentieth-century weapons of mass destruction, remains perversely beautiful. But the infested waters become the battleground for looting pirates and sec men in still-functional navy PT boats, all driven by greed and madness to plunder the predark caches of science and technology hidden in the islands. Ryan Cawdor and his warrior band emerge in this perilous water world, caught in a grim fight to unlock the secrets of the past. In the Deathlands, the price for survival is high. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 8 hours ISBN: 1-933059-64-8 ISBN-13: 978-1-933059-64-8 Release Date: January 2005 Paperback ISBN -0373-62563-4
	54: Judas Strike A nuclear Endgame played out among the superpowers created a fiery cataclysm that turned America into a treacherous new frontier. But an intrepid group of warrior survivalists roams the wastelands, unlocking the secrets of a pre-dark world. Ryan Cawdor and his band have become living legends in a world of madness and death where savagery reigns, but the human spirit remains. The South Pacific is a rad-blasted paradise, inhabited by giant mutated crustaceans and savage cannibals. The local baron rules the Marshall Islands with a despotic iron fist and a secret formula for making Deathland’s gold: Gunpowder. But his true invincibility lies in his possession of stockpiles of pre-dark rapid fire missiles and a fleet of functional PT boats. Ryan Cawdor and his companions have faced off against the baron and survived. But this time there’s only one way out of these death seas—through the sec-men infested waters of the baron’s kingdom. Imagine your worst nightmare. This is the Deathlands. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 8 hours ISBN: 1-933059-65-6 ISBN-13: 978-1-933059-65-5 Release Date: January 2005 Paperback ISBN 0-37362564-2
	55: Shadow Fortress A planet ravaged by the apocalyptic blast of 2001 gave birth to a new world of savagery—and a new breed of hero. In a land where violence rules with absolute authority, Ryan Cawdor and his wayfarer survivalists roam the strange, nascent twenty second century, living by their own creed of honor as they continue their search for a sanctuary they can call home. In what was once the nuclear testing ground of the predark world, the Marshall Islands are now the kingdom of the grotesque lord Baron Kinnison. Here in this world of slavery and brutality the companions have fought a fierce war for survival, on land and sea—yet the crafty baron still conspires to destroy these interlopers. Activating a twentieth century hot air balloon left untouched by the blast, they escape to the neighboring pirate ruled forbidden island, with the Baron and his sec men in hot pursuit—and become trapped in a war for total supremacy on this water world. Not even the Deathlands can deny the human will to survive. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 8 hours ISBN: 1-933059-68-0 ISBN-13: 978-1-933059-68-6 Release Date: February 2005 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62565-0
	56: Sunchild After an atomic blast hurled the world into an uncertain future, the past still reaches out in hope... and damnation. In a kill or be killed world, one steadfast group of survivors possesses superior fighting skills and sense of fair play that have made them living legends. In their struggle to seek a better way of life, they are unraveling the powerful secrets of the hell on Earth called Deathlands. A pre-dark legacy of shattering promise lies beneath the ruins of nuke-ravaged Seattle. Ryan Cawdor and his warrior companions come face-to-face with the ancestors of a secret society whose members were convinced that paradise awaited at the center of the Earth. This cult is inexorably tied to a conspiracy of twentieth-century scientists devoted to fulfilling a vision o genetic manipulation.In this labyrinthine ville, carved from the subterranean passages of a doomed past, some of the descendants of the illuminated ones are pursuing the dream of their legacy—while others are dedicated to its nightmare. Even in the Deathlands, twisted human beliefs endure.. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 8 hours ISBN: 1-933059-69-9 ISBN-13: 978-1-933059-69-3 Release Date: February 2005 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62566-9
	57: Breakthrough More than a century after a multi-warhead nuclear strike wiped out nearly all of earth's population, humanity's feral instinct to survive has spawned a savage new America. Here, the brutality of man and nature conspire against hope. Yet despite its chaos and bloody turmoil, Deathlands is a second chance for the human race...and for a group of warrior survivalists lead by a man called Ryan Cawdor. Deathlands is a living hell, but there is someplace worse: a parallel Earth where the atomic mega-cull never happened. Now this Otherworld Earth is in its final death throes. Yet for an elite few, the reality portal offers a new frontier of raw energy, expendable slaves—a bastion of power for Dredda Otis Trask. Her invasion force of genetically engineered warrior women has turned the ruins of Salt Lake City into the deadly mining grounds of a grotesque new order—one that lies in wait for Ryan and his companions. In the Deathlands, danger lurks beyond the imagination. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 8 hours ISBN: 1-933059-72-9 ISBN-13: 978-1-933059-72-3 Release Date: March 2005 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62567-7
	58: Salvation Road Tortured into existence by a nuclear conflagration, the new frontier of a ravaged America is an ordeal only the most intrepid can endure. Pockets of civilization have emerged, some born of will and hope, while others are breeding grounds for tyranny and madness. Ryan Cawdor and his warrior companions have survived all this and worse. A roving band of survivalists driven to seek a better life, they are unwilling to pay the highest price demanded by the unforgiving crucible called Deathlands. Beneath the brutal sun of the nuke-ravaged Southwest, the Texas desert burns red hot and merciless, commanding agony and untold riches to those greedy and mad enough to mine the slick black crude that lies beneath the scorched earth. When a Gateway jump puts Ryan and the others deep in the hell of Texas, they face a no win situation: fry in the heat, or become a rogue baron's sec force for an oil refinery targeted by saboteurs. The task: catch the raiders and win their freedom. Or fail...and face death. In the Deathlands, the unimaginable is a way of life. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 7 hours ISBN: 1-933059-73-7 ISBN-13: 978-1-933059-73-0 Release Date: March 2005 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62568-5
	59: Amazon Gate At the heart of the strange new post-nuclear world known as Deathlands lie the mysteries of pre-dark society—secrets that may hold the key to a future of peace...or peril. Armed with rare knowledge of top secret twenty-first-century technology, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists traverse the new America, seeking to claim something beyond the grim reality of Deathlands. In the radiation-blasted heart of the northwest, Ryan and his companions form a tenuous alliance with a society of women warriors in what may be the stunning culmination of their quest. After years of searching, they have found the gateway to the pre-dark cabal of the Illuminated Ones—and perhaps their one chance to reclaim the future from the jaws of madness. But to seize tomorrow, they must confront its deadly guardians: what is left of the constitutional Government of the United States of America. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 6 hours ISBN: 1-933059-76-1 ISBN-13: 978-1-933059-76-1 Release Date: April 2005 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62569-3
	60: Destiny's Truth America has been forever alter by the ravages of a nuclear attack that sent it spiraling toward a virulent new destiny—and by the vestiges of the pre-dark world itself, where humanity's internecine battle between good and evil rages on. Though many of twenty-first-century America's darkest legacies have been entombed beneath the ruins of a wounded planet, some remain dangerously alive... Emerging from a gateway in New England, Ryan Cawdor and his band of wayfaring survivalists ally themselves with a group of women warriors who join their quest to locate the Illuminated Ones, a mysterious pre-dark secret who may possess secret knowledge of Deathlands. Yet their pursuit becomes treacherous, for their quarry has unleashed a deadly plague in the twisted plot to cleanse the earth. As Ryan's group falls victim, time is running out—for the intrepid survivors... and for humanity itself. In the Deathlands, when tomorrow comes some will wish it hadn't. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 6 hours ISBN: 1-933059-77-X ISBN-13: 978-1-933059-77-8 Release Date: April 2005 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62570-7
	61: Skydark Spawn Survival in America's nuke-blasted frontier is both a curse and a salvation for Ryan Cawdor and his warrior companions. Though the basic needs of existence must be fought for and won with blood—each day alive means another chance to seek refuge and a better way of life in a hostile and brutal world, where hope still fires the human heart. In the relatively untouched area of what was once Niagara Falls, Ryan and his fellow wayfarers find the pastoral farmland under the despotic control of a twisted baron and his slave-breeding farm. Ryan, Mildred and Krysty are captured by the baron's sec men and pawned into the cruel frenzy of their leader's grotesque desires. JB, Jak and Doc enlist the aid of outlanders to organize a counter strike—but rescue may come too late for them all. In the Deathlands, you are sentenced to your destiny from the moment of birth... Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 7 hours ISBN: 1-933059-80-X ISBN-13: 978-1-933059-80-8 Release Date: May 2005 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62571-5
	62: Damnation Road Show In the ruins of a nuke-shattered America, every man, woman and child of the apocalyptic frontier makes a perilous journey to the future. But there is a fork that divides the path toward humanity reborn... and the road deep into the hell that is Deathlands. Ryan Cawdor made his choice long ago, in this barbaric new world that conspires against hope... Eerie remnants of pre-Dark times linger a century after the nuclear blowout. But a traveling road show gives new meaning to the word chilling. Ryan and his warrior group have witnessed this carny's handiwork in the ruins, and victims of unsuspecting villes. Even facing tremendous odds does nothing to deter the companions from challenging this wandering death merchant and an army of circus freaks. And no one is aware that a steel-eyed monster from the past is preparing a private act that would give ryan star billing... In the Deathlands, all you get is a one-way ticket. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 7 hours ISBN: 1-933059-81-8 ISBN-13: 978-1-933059-81-5 Release Date: May 2005 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62572-3
	63: Devil Riders A century after the nuclear conflagration almost destroyed the world, humanity endures in a lawless land. Those who inhabit Deathlands are either killers or those who would be killed. But an elite few defy the laws of this new natural selection—playing both sides of the eternal game of life and death. Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists never leave a friend behind... or a coldheart alive. Stranded in the salty desert wastes of West Texas, Ryan and his companions find pre-Dark wheels and set out on a treacherous journey across inhospitable terrain. Hopes for a hot meal and clean bed in an isolated ville die fast when the companions run into a despotic baron manipulating the lifeblood of the desert: water. But it's his fortress stockpiled with enough armaments to wage war in the dunes that interests Ryan, especially when he learns the enemy may be not other than the great—and long dead—Deathlands legend: the Trader. In the Deathlands the future is here, but the past is never far behind. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 7 hours ISBN: 1-933059-84-2 ISBN-13: 978-1-933059-84-6 Release Date: June 2005 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62573-1
	64: Bloodfire Life in twenty-second-century America is an odyssey of pain and death. Savagely transformed by atomic fallout, what remain of humanity endures an interactive war against those who thrive on chaos and bloodshed. A legend in a violent land, Ryan Cawdor lives and fights by his own rules as he and his companions traverse the grim world of Deathlands. For as long as the future remains out of reach, survival means living long enough to face a new day. Hearing a rumor that the Trader, his old teacher and friend, is still alive, Ryan and his warrior group struggle across the treacherous Texas desert to find the truth. But an enemy with a score to settle is in hot pursuit—and so is the elusive Trader. The preDark city of Sonora—preserved for a century in the salt and sand of the nukescape—becomes the staging ground for a showdown between mortal enemies, where the scales of revenge and death will be balanced with brutal finality. In the Deathlands, the only law is lawlessness. Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 7 hours ISBN: 1-933059-85-0 ISBN-13: 978-1-933059-85-3 Release Date: June 2005 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62574-X
	65: Hellbenders Out of the ashes of the conflagration that savaged mankind two centuries ago, Deathlands was born—a tortured testament to a world long gone. Yet, in this kill-or-be-killed world where justice is the way of the past and blood is law, hope is the last refuge of the doomed. For Ryan Cawdor, driven by a warrior's instinct to survive, it's a world that exacts a devil's bargain: the struggle for daily existence in return for a chance to forge a better life. Emerging from a gateway into a redoubt filled with preDark technology, Ryan and his band hope to unlock some of the secrets of post nuclear America. But the fortified redoubt is under the control of a half-mad former sec man hell-bent on vengeance, who orders Ryan and the others to jump-start his private war against two local barons. Under the harsh and pitiless glare of the rad-blasted desert sun, the companions fight to see another day, whatever it brings... In the Deathlands, the condemned shall inherit the earth... Listen to a Preview Audio Book Approximate Running Time: 7 hours ISBN: 1-933059-88-5 ISBN-13: 978-1-933059-88-4 Release Date: July 2005 Paperback ISBN 0-373-62575-8