All 36 The Survivalist Books In Order at Book DNA

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Total War

This is NUMBER ONE in the Survivalist series featuring the hero, John Thomas Rourke: The story of the ultimate war, the final nuclear holocaust and the unrelenting quest of John Thomas Rourke as he begins his search across war-ravaged America, following every haunting clue, however fragmentary, to locate his missing…

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The Nightmare Begins

World War III is now a bloody page in American history. With nuclear holocaust killing more than a quarter-billion people worldwide and the United States just a memory, John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Cover Operations Officer, weapons expert, and survival authority is enduring the ultimate test. Soviet Occupation Forces have landed…

3
The Quest

World War III has passed and John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Cover Operations Officer, weapons expert, and survival authority has at last reached his home only to find that his wife and two children have fled for their lives. With the knowledge that his family has survived the nuclear holocaust, Rourke,…

4
The Doomsayer

John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons expert, and survival authority, is pursuing the trail of his wife and children from whom he was separated when World War III began. As he sets out from his retreat, he meets a beautiful woman scientist, who has learned that the nuclear…

5
The Web

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…

6
The Savage Horde

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…

7
The Prophet

John Thomas Rourke, an ex-CIA agent, learns that another nuclear war will break out, this one ending all life on earth, unless he can stop the missile launch

8
The End Is Coming

John Thomas Rourke, an ex-CIA officer searching for his family after the destruction caused by World War III, encounters a KGB plot to destroy the Earth's atmosphere

9
Earth Fire

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…

10
The Awakening

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…

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The Reprisal

Back cover text:
World War III and its aftermath of all-consuming fire left civilization on the brink of extinction. But John Thomas Rourke - the ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist and survival expert - still lives, fighting the elements and the odds.

And thos odds have never been more…

12
The Rebellion

In a post-World War III nuclear wasteland, weapons specialist and survival expert John Thomas Rourke forms an unlikely alliance with an ex-Nazi in order to completely rid the earth of Nazis and Communists

13
Pursuit

THE FIERY AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR III LEFT CIVILIZATION ON THE BRINK OF EXTINCTION. BUT JOHN THOMAS ROURKE, EX-CIA COVERT OPERATIONS OFFICER, WEAPONS SPECIALIST AND SURVIVAL EXPERT, WILL NOT BE STOPPED IN HIS BOLD BID TO THWART THE COMMUNIST TAKEOVER OF THE DEVASTATED PLANET.

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The Terror

By Jerry Ahern , J Ahern ,

John Rourke searches the Ural Mountains for the secret Russian underground city, while Karamatsov, his sworn enemy, discovers a secret weapon that will give him control of the world

15
Overlord

IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY—WOULD JOHN THOMAS ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE…?

It's a perilous world after the fiery apocalypse of World War III, and John Thomas Rourke—ex-ClA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist, and survival expert—pursues his archenemy Vladmir Karamatsov into the strife-torn, blackened wilderness of mainland China and a…

16
The Arsenal

John Thomas Rourke is caught between the sadistic leader of the Second City of China and Russian Colonel Antonovich, who wants to capture the remainder of China's nuclear arsenal

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The Ordeal

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…

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The Struggle

John Thomas Rourke, an ex-CIA agent, learns that Colonel Antonovich, leader of the Soviet forces is again conspiring against the remnants of the Free World

19
Final Rain

John Thomas Rourke, an ex-CIA agent, leads international forces against the invading Russians, who have developed a new particle beam weapon

20
Firestorm

After World War III, John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA agent and survival expert, tries to break Russia's hold on America, but he, and the Russians, fear the imminent combustion of the earth's atmosphere

21
To End All War

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…

22
Brutal Conquest

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…

23
Call to Battle

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…

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Blood Assassins

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…

25
War Mountain

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…

26
Countdown

In order to save the free world from dangerous seismic activity in the earth's crust, John Rourke and his team of freedom fighters must steal nuclear weapons from a group of Nazis. Original.

27
Death Watch

In the years following World War III, the Nazis prepare for a final attack on the Trans-Global Alliance, and ex-CIA cover operations officer John Thomas Rourke is determined to stop the Nazis. Original.

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Mid-Wake

The survivalist, John Thomas Rourke, attempts to block the alliance of Vladmir Kardmastov's land-dwelling killer army and the Russian colonists of an undersea city of World War III survivors