Jerry Ahern

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  • Bibliography:
    58 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1981
  • Latest Book:
    December 2014
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Full Series List in Order

Defender

1 - The Battle Begins (Jun-1988)
2 - The Killing Wedge (Aug-1988)
3 - Out of Control (Oct-1988)
4 - Decision Time (Dec-1988)
5 - Entrapment (Apr-1989)
6 - Escape (May-1989)
7 - Vengeance (Jun-1989)
8 - Justice Denied (Jul-1989)
9 - Deathgrip (Dec-1989)
10 - The Good Fight (Feb-1990)
11 - The Challenge (Apr-1990)
12 - No Survivors (Jun-1990)

Surgical Strike

1 - Surgical Strike (Jun-1988)
2 - Assault on the Empress (Dec-1988)
3 - Infiltrator (Aug-1990)

The Survivalist

1 - Total War (Mar-1982)
2 - The Nightmare Begins (Aug-1981)
3 - The Quest (1981)
4 - The Doomsayer (1982)
5 - The Web (Jan-1983)
6 - The Savage Horde (1983)
7 - The Prophet (1984)
8 - The End is Coming (1984)
9 - Earth Fire (Jul-1984)
10 - The Awakening (Nov-1984)
11 - The Reprisal (1985)
12 - The Rebellion (1985)
13 - Pursuit (1986)
14 - The Terror (Jan-1987)
15 - Overlord (May-1987)
15.5 - Mid-Wake (Feb-1988)
16 - The Arsenal (May-1988)
17 - The Ordeal (Nov-1988)
18 - The Struggle (Feb-1989)
19 - Final Rain (Jun-1989)
20 - Firestorm (May-1990)
21 - ...To End All War (Sep-1990)
21.5 - The Legend (Jan-1991)
22 - Brutal Conquest (Oct-1991)
23 - Call to Battle (Mar-1992)
24 - Blood Assassins (Sep-1992)
25 - War Mountain (Mar-1993)
26 - Countdown (Jul-1993)
27 - Death Watch (Dec-1993)

Multi-Author Series List

Soldier for Hire

5 - Libyan Warlord (May-1982)

Track

1 - The Ninety-Nine (May-1984)
2 - Atrocity (May-1984)
3 - Armageddon Conspiracy (Sep-1984)
4 - The Hard Way (Nov-1984)
5 - Origin of a Vendetta (Jan-1985)
6 - Certain Blood (Mar-1985)
7 - Master of D.E.A.T.H. (Jun-1985)
8 - Revenge of the Master (Jul-1985)
9 - The D.E.A.T.H. Hunters (Sep-1985)
10 - Cocaine Run (Nov-1985)

Book List in Order: 58 titles

  • The Quest

    • / Action Adventure
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    The Survivalist - 3

    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 f...

  • The Nightmare Begins

    The Survivalist - 2

    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...

  • The Doomsayer

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    The Survivalist - 4

    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 wo...

  • Total War

    The Survivalist - 1

    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, follow...

  • Libyan Warlord

    Soldier for Hire - 5

  • The Web

    The Survivalist - 5

    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 contin...

  • The Savage Horde

    • / Action Adventure
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    The Survivalist - 6

    John Thomas Rourke, M.D., ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons expert, and survival authority, is on the move again---searching for a cache of eighty megaton warhead missiles secreted on the New Est Coast.

    It begins with a firefight between ...

  • The End is Coming

    • / Action Adventure
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    The Survivalist - 8

    World War III was only the beginning. Inevitable death now awaits every soul who lived through the holocaust as the earth's atmosphere is about to explode into a searing blaze of fire. But one man refuses to die, refuses to accept the horror: John Th...

  • The Prophet

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    The Survivalist - 7

    World War III was just practice for what's coming. And even those who survived the original firestorm -- like John Thomas Rourke -- won’t have a chance when the next round of carnage begins....



  • Atrocity

    Track - 2

  • The Ninety-Nine

    Track - 1

  • Earth Fire

    The Survivalist - 9

    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...

  • Armageddon Conspiracy

    Track - 3

  • The Awakening

    The Survivalist - 10

    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 a...

  • The Hard Way

    Track - 4

  • Origin of a Vendetta

    Track - 5

  • The Rebellion

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    The Survivalist - 12

    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...

  • The Reprisal

    • / Action Adventure
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    The Survivalist - 11

    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 o...

  • Certain Blood

    Track - 6



  • Master of D.E.A.T.H.

    Track - 7

  • Revenge of the Master

    Track - 8

    The Master of D.E.A.T.H. returns with another scheme for breaking down the governments who opposed him, this time planning to use an upcoming space shuttle launch as a way to destroy the U.S. space program and set the seeds for his further plans....

  • The D.E.A.T.H. Hunters

    Track - 9

  • Cocaine Run

    Track - 10

  • Pursuit

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    The Survivalist - 13

    IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY--WOULD JOHN THOMAS ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE... ?The fiery aftermath of World War III left civilization on the brink of extinction. But John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist and ...

  • The Terror

    The Survivalist - 14

    When the earth's atmosphere explodes info a blazing wave of global fire, few could hope to escape with their lives. But John Thomas Rourke--ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist and survival expert--would not be denied another chance a...

  • Overlord

    The Survivalist - 15

    It's a perilous world after the fiery apocalypse of World War III, and John Thomas Rourker--ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist, and survival expert--pursues his arch-enemy Vladmir Karamatsov into the strife-torn, blackened wildernes...

  • Mid-Wake

    The Survivalist - 15.5

    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. ...

  • The Arsenal

    The Survivalist - 16

    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 Off...

  • The Battle Begins

    Defender - 1

    ON THE EVE OF CHAOS HE'S AMERICA'S LAST LINE OF DEFENSE. Someone has organized the inner city's toughest gangs, trained and armed them with sophisticated weaponry and set them loose on the streets. By the time the police and politicos can act, it's ...



  • Surgical Strike

    Surgical Strike - 1

    America Has a New Policy For Dealing With Terrorists. FIGHT FIRE WITH FIREPOWER... Four men. Hand-picked specialists from America's military elite. Their mission: A daring raid on a Mideast terrorist stronghold. It's a covert operation to in...

  • The Killing Wedge

    Defender - 2

    TO SAVE HIS COUNTRY, HE GAVE UP EVERYTHING EXCEPT FREEDOM-AND HIS WILL TO FIGHT! On every street, in every major city, the battle for America is raging, and one man is caught in the killing crossfire. To the FLNA terrorists he is the deadliest of ene...

  • Out of Control

    Defender - 3

    AGAINST THE FANATICAL ENEMIES OF LIBERTY THEY WERE AMERICAS FIGHTING TICKET. As the race for Metro mayor heats up, the city explodes in a new wave of brutal violence. The radical FLNA has a simple strategy to insure their candidate's victory: bombing...

  • The Ordeal

    The Survivalist - 17

    As the Soviet army advances on the few areas of civilization left after World War III, John Thomas Rourke, alone with helplessly crippled Natalia deep in hostile territory, attempts to fight off the enemy battalions...

  • Assault on the Empress

    Surgical Strike - 2

    TERMINATE WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE A dying terrorist makes a last desperate bid for bloody glory on a luxury cruise ship. But what begins as a savage terrorist attack could end in a biological holocaust spawned by a KGB virus. The men of the Surgic...

  • Decision Time

    Defender - 4

    IN A CORRUPT CAMPAIGN, ONLY BULLETS COUNT AS VOTES AGAINST TERROR.In the streets of America's most violent city, the radical FLNA continues a ruthless campaign against freedom. Their law-and-order candidate for mayor is backed by an international syn...

  • Brandywine

    • / Action Adventure
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  • The Struggle

    The Survivalist - 18

    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 all...

  • Entrapment

    Defender - 5

    ON THE BRINK OF WAR HE'LL WIN PEACE BY SHOOTING FIRST.David Holden and his Patriots have hit the subversive FLNA hard... knocking out their headquarters on an exclusive resort island. But the FLNA's leader is readying a horrifying plan-to assassinate...

  • Escape

    Defender - 6

    DEMOCRACY'S FOES TRIED TO JAIL HIM... THAT WAS JUST THEIR FIRST MISTAKE!David Holden was supposed to be a dead man. The subversive FLNA had taken him captive... and their master torturer tried to make him talk. But it would take more than chains to k...



  • Final Rain

    The Survivalist - 19

    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 th...

  • Vengeance

    Defender - 7

    The FLNA terrorists had thought that by breaking Patriot leader David Holden, they would be one giant step closer to conquering America. So they had kidnapped him and held him captive in a South American cocaine country, where he was subjected to rut...

  • Justice Denied

    Defender - 8

    Holden is the only man that can stop the FLNA's master plan to take over America, leaving him to be the most hunted man in America. And, while the U.S. President lies wounded in a secret hideaway, even Holden can't stop the FLNA from putting their pu...

  • Deathgrip

    Defender - 9

    A death grip is strangling our precious liberty as martial law marches across the land. The President has been murdered, and the Big Lie told the American people -- that David Holden and his Patriots are guilty! But there is one hope: evidence exists...

  • The Good Fight

    Defender - 10

    AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE WARRIOR FIGHTS FOR OUR FLAG... AND OUR FUTURE.THE DEFENDERHE'LL WAGE TOTAL WAR AGAINST TYRANNY!Days of bloody violence sweep across the land as the terrorist-backed FLNA grab control of the U.S. Army, Navy, and Marines. Now railw...

  • Werewolves

    A reunion between a daughter and her father turns sour when an army of revived Nazi werewolves is turned loose on the streets, and the father sees a face from his World War II past that has not aged in forty years...

  • The Challenge

    Defender - 11

    With an army of renegade police officers and veterans known as the Patriots, David Holden attempts to free a group of U.S. military leaders who are being held prisoner in a Montana death camp by the terrorist FLNA...

  • Firestorm

    The Survivalist - 20

    When John Rourke receives reports of a new Soviet particle beam weapon that could tip the fragile balance of world power, he embarks on a hazardous journey to the Ural Mountains to steal the weapon and prevent the outbreak of a war between the Russia...

  • No Survivors

    Defender - 12

    In on the finish, the Defender will write history with his honor...and with his gun. America is dying. Terrorists now control the military and the President. A flame of hope still flickers when the Patriots find a new ally. Combat ready and grimly de...

  • Infiltrator

    Surgical Strike - 3

    A TRIAL BY FIRE AND ICE... It started as a simple military exercise. A NATO counter-terrorist squad takes on Babcock, Hughes, and Cross, who are holding volunteer "hostages" in a remote Alpine village. But what was supposed to be a war of fancy mane...



  • ...To End All War

    The Survivalist - 21

    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 civil...

  • The Legend

    The Survivalist - 21.5

    In 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 sh...

  • Brutal Conquest

    The Survivalist - 22

    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 fr...

  • Call to Battle

    The Survivalist - 23

    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 b...

  • Blood Assassins

    The Survivalist - 24

    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 ...

  • War Mountain

    The Survivalist - 25

    Rourke and his commandos must fight their way across New York's wastelands and penetrate an ancient mountain complex, where a fascist leader plots to perform a genetic experiment with Hitler's frozen corpse. Original....

  • Countdown

    The Survivalist - 26

    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 mi...

  • Death Watch

    The Survivalist - 27

    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....

  • For I Have Sinned

    A Jerry, Sharon & Samantha Ahern Short StoryKellie Strauch, a devout Catholic, must overcome her greatest fear. Kellie believes that if she has a child, her child will kill her. Guess who just found out she's pregnant?...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jerry Ahern has published 58 books.

Jerry Ahern does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, For I Have Sinned, was published in December 2014.

The first book by Jerry Ahern, The Quest, was published in January 1981.

Yes. Jerry Ahern has 3 series.
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