Bøger af Jerry Ahern

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!

Hank Frost, the wise-cracking, one-eyed mercenary captain, takes on an "easy" executive protection job. The assignment is to ride shotgun on a seven-year-old genius en route to rejoin his father, a U.S. military aircraft expert working on a Top Secret "mystery bomber" with the Canadian government.But the whiz-kid doesn't like Frost's eye patch jokes, and the boy's father turns up missing-along with the mysterious plane. And then there's the PLO and some Baader-Meinhof gang alumni who have plans to introduce global terrorism to North America in a big, big way.All Frost was looking forward to was just a couple of quiet weeks with his girlfriend Bess-without terrorists, without Israeli Intelligence, without the FBI and the Mounties chasing him, and most definitely without the whiz-kid!

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!

HANK FROST- THE ONE-EYED MERC CAPTAINHank Frost, the one-eyed mere Captain with the mile-long string of eye patch jokes, the overused 9mm and a low-budget bank account, loses the commission on a multi-million-dollar deal and to keep on eating, hires out for a vendetta against the Burmese drug warlords. With a mercenary commando team, Frost penetrates the steaming Southeast Asian jungles to knock off the kingpin of the raw opium trade and avenge a savage murder.From New Orleans to Upstate New York, from Miami to Thailand, Frost is duking it out with the billion-dollar drug business, a Cosa Nostra capo who wants to corner the market and power-mad warlords at the head of the opium pipeline. Then he has to deal with the girl from the drug awareness political action group who wants to get the hard facts on opium smuggling and could wind up a high-priced harem slave. And the one-eyed man is sentenced to an execution that might just switch him over to headless jokes...

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 ONE-EYED MERC CAPTAIN"EVERY FORTY-EIGHT HOURS UNTIL TEN MILLION DOLLARS IN DIAMONDS IS PAID, WE'LL SEND BACK A PIECE OF PROFESSOR BALSAM..."That message and a bloody finger are all Hank Frost finds after he loses his prize charge to terrorist kidnappers. And to get Balsam back, the fast-talking, fast-shooting, one-eyed mercenary captain has to gut his way through a sado-masochist torture team, neo-Nazi gunmen and a vastly powerful Fourth Reich conspiracy.The French police are after Frost, and so is Israeli Intelligence and the beautiful Mossad agent Marita, who claims to be Balsam's daughter. From Chicago to Paris, to the Bavarian Alps, from terrorist assaults to torture sessions, Hank Frost is in trouble-up to his eye patch...

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!

Assasination in the Swiss Alps... terrorism in the Central American jungle... Treachery in Washington... and Hank Frost is right in the middle! The wise-cracking mercenary captain is up to his eyepatch in brutal violence.

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...

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 maneuvers, smoke bombs, and blanks turns deadly when real-life terrorists crash the games. The NATO squad is slaughtered. A busload of schoolchildren is seized. And the men of Surgical Strike-barely armed-must save themselves and panicked civilians from bullets, bombs, and worse.Night is falling. The temperature is dropping. And for Babcock, Hughes, and Cross, the heat is on...

TERMINATE WITH EXTREME PREJUDICEA 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 Surgical Strike team explode into action. Babcock. Hughes. Cross. It's a reunion of the world's deadliest fighting force.Now the lives of hundreds of passengers... and five downwind nations depend on them, as the fate of the world is decided on a swaying deck, slick with blood.SURGICAL STRIKEAmerica's New Terrorist Negotiation TeamTheir terrorist negotiation policy is simple-KILL 'EM ALL AND LET GOD SORT 'EM OUT!

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...

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 introduce America's new fight-back policy on terrorism.If they're successful they'll crush the back of the world's most murderous terror network... trigger a bloodbath that will cost innocent lives.SURGICAL STRIKE-America's New Terrorist Negotiation Team

Hank Frost, the one-eyed mercenary captain hires out to the CIA to shepherd one of the world's most hunted female terrorists. She's sought by law enforcement agencies in all the countries of Europe, and stalked by the terrorist organization she's double-crossed in exchange for asylum.But the fast-shooting soldier of fortune has different plans for the girl. He aims to use her to backtrack into the global terror network to find the people who planted the bomb that killed his number one lady, Bess.From Rome to Istanbul, Frost follows a bloody trail of killings, kneecappings and kidnapping. Only once is his vengeance side-tracked: when he meets the beautiful brunette who says she's a traveling student-with the face of an angel and the hands of an assassin!

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 bombing on the Night of the War has created an artificial fault line. Within days, perhaps hours, it will cause one of the most massive quakes in history-separating the Florida peninsula from the U.S. mainland.Rourke must postpone the search for his family in order to reach Army intelligence and begin the evacuation of Florida. He must also find young Paul Rubenstein who has gone there to learn if by some miracle his parents had survived The War.Communist Cuban troops, Soviet-Cuban rivalry, a traitor in the inner circle of U.S. II and natural disaster of blood-chilling magnitude block Rourke's way. But he must go on-he is The Survivalist.

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 rendezvous with certain death.Karamatsov in possession of devastating gas that transmutes normal men into homicidal, blood-crazed animals, is determined to use it to seize control of the vast Communist Chinese nuclear arsenal that survived the hell-fire destruction of the Night of The War. Like few men alive on earth, Rourke knows the thermonuclear horrors that await mankind. Although the odds have never been more heavily stacked against him, he has no choice but to attack and crush the new threat-he is.... THE SURVIVALIST.

IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY-WOULD JOHN THOMAS ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE...?The lucky died fast. Millions suffered unspeakable agonies as a tide of toxic death rolled across America's once majestic land. Now, in the years after world war III, the land of the free is struggling for its very survival, facing the crushing onslaught of a powerful enemy's killing machine, in this blasted landscape one man stands forth as the last hero: ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist, and survivalist, John Thomas Rourke...Leaving his hospital bed against doctor's orders, John Rourke must do what he can to stop the war and gain control of the world's nuclear arsenal. With the Nazis preparing their final assault on the Trans-Global Alliance and madman Deitrich Zimmer infuriated by the destruction of his cloning facility in the Himalayas, time is running out. Overcoming his wounds, Rourke formulates a daring plan to reach a secretly rebellious Nazi officer who envies Zimmer's power-and to trust this man with the fate of the world. For while war rages, an even greater danger looms: a volcanic vent that is tunneling its way eastward and can only be stopped one way: with the last nuclear warheads on earth!

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, witht the aid of young Paul Rubenstein, must find his loved ones. But the Soviets are consolidating their military hold on the country and both the ruthless KGB and the fledgling post-war U.Sl government have begun their own search. First they must learn the purpose behind the massive launch of secret U.S. rockets on the night the war began. Then they have to determine the meaning of the mysterious Eden Project and find the one surviving NASA official who can answer all the questions. A deadly game of intrigue within the Soviet High Command, the formation of the American "resistance" and a highly placed traitor in the new U.S. government all block Rourke's path. But nothing can stop him-he is THE SURVIVALIST

HANK FROST-THE ONE-EYED MERC CAPTAINHank Frost, the fast-talking, fast-shooting one-eyed mercenary captain, hires out to body-guard a returning, deep-cover female U.S. agent. He has to drive her from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C, where she'll report directly to the President of the United States. The brain of this unbelievably beautiful redhead carries a list of Communist agents holding positions of trust in the highest echelons of the CIA and FBI-men who have set both organizations on the trail of Frost and the girl with orders to shoot on sight.Add KGB hit squads and a killer blizzard as Frost makes the cross-country run and there's death behind every curve. And alone with the redhead, the one-eyed man learns that there are other kinds of curves that can even be more deadly...

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 railway boxcars are packed with imprisoned men and women officers. Their crime: loyalty to the flag. Their destination: death... unless David Holden and his band of Patriots can blast them free and show the world the time has come to pull the trigger on tyranny.

Hank Frost, the one-eyed merc Captain who fires off eye patch jokes almost as fast as the 9mm slugs from his pistol, gets an offer he can't refuse. The exquisitely-beautiful daughter of a New York Mafia capo has been kidnapped by white slavers in the Middle East and sold into the harem of a militant Arab oil sheik. The capo and his own crime syndicate "soldiers" are powerless to get her out. If the girl fails to please her "master" she'll be butchered. Frost mounts a mercenary strike force to penetrate the sheikdom. But rescuing the capo's daughter is just the beginning of Frost's troubles. The sheik and his neo-Nazi advisors are plotting to assassinate the President of Egypt, putting the blame on Jewish extremists and making the Middle East explode in all-out war!

When the earth's atmosphere explodes into 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 at life to thwart the communist takeover of the devastated planet...A secret weapon, buried before the fiery apocalypse of world War III, is unearthed from the sands beneath the shadow of the Great Pyramid-a weapon that Hero Marshall Vladmir Karamatsov will use to establish himself ruler of the new earth.And as John Rourke searches the icy wastelands of the Ural Mountains for the secret entrance to the Soviet underground City, he is inexorably drawn into Karamatsov's plan for world conquest. Because Rourke, now more than ever, must kill Karamatsov to avenge the murder of one of Rourke's own-even if it means spearheading a commando raid into the midst of a bloody battle of Russian against Russian. John Rourke has no choice but to fight on-he is... THE SURVIVALIST.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.Sub-oceanic cracks in the Earth's crust threaten the safety of the free world. But John Rourke's team has the solution. Massive nuclear explosions strategically placed will avert certain disaster and the deaths of millions. But Deitrich Drimmer and his Nazi stormtroopers control the only cache of atomic weapons large enough to complete the plan. It's up to the Survivalist and his team of commando fighters to destroy the Nazi stronghold and seize the powerful bombs before the future of democracy and life itself are annihilated forever!"

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 and must begin the "pacification" of America. They will start by liquidating any prominent Americans who could become a rallying point for armed resistance. The first name on the list is Samuel Chambers, the lone surviving member of the Presidential cabinet. And as the American KGB invades Texas to find Chambers, they find Rourke there as well. With his young friend Paul Rubenstein, Rourke is fighting his way back home to continue the search for his missing wife and children. Paramilitary armies, heavily armed brigands, a beautiful KGB infiltrator, an unending stream of War refugees, and a land gone mad with violence block his path. The birth of the U.S. II has begun and the quest continues for John Thomas Rourke - THE SURVIVALIST.

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 in the form of videotape that exposes the terrorists' FLNA and the new president as the real assassins. Now David and his crack commando troops must load their Uzi's for one final mission: to get the truth to the nation or all is lost.

Hank Frost, the wise-cracking, one-eyed mercenary captain, suddenly becomes commanding general of an anti-Communist Mercenary Army doubling as admiral of a moth-balled invasion fleet. And there's also a $100,000 payoff in the bargain.All Frost has to do is invade Monte Azul, a country lost to Communist terrorists, and oust Castro's murderous puppet dictator, who's backed by a Castro Army of 4,000 shock troops.But if he survives that, there's Marina, the daughter of the dead anti-Communist president, who wants Frost as her lover-and the vengeance-bent right-wing Army leader who wants Frost dead. Assassination, piracy commando raids and pitched battles lead Frost ever near the final one-on-one death-duel with the dictator!

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 survival expert, will not be stopped in his bold bid to thwart the Communist takeover of the devastated planet. When John Rourke's daughter is kidnapped by a Russian agent, Rourke follows their trail across a frozen Arctic wasteland-and stumbles upon a small pocket of humanity living in a tropical paradise surrounded by ice and snow. The community of Icelandic descendants has flourished in seclusion during the long years following the fiery holocaust, unaware of the fierce and bloody struggle in the outside world between the forces of freedom and Communist tyranny. And as the Russian strike force readies to assault the tranquil enclave, Rourke must quickly teach these people of peace the harsh realities of war, the techniques of killing to survive for freedom's sake, the hard-earned skills of... THE SURVIVALIST.

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 family.