A.J. Newman Books in Order

After nuclear strikes and EMP attacks cripple the country, John Harris helps survivors establish an independent nation. Finding food and weapons is only the beginning as the remnants of the former government launch attacks against them.

A hunting trip draws former Special Forces soldier John Harris into a cartel operation tied to corrupt officials. When nuclear attacks devastate American cities, he must lead his companions through collapsing services, scarce supplies, and escalating violence.

John Harris now leads the Independent States of America, supported by remnants of the armed forces. Although immediate shortages have eased, attacks and assassination attempts by the old government threaten the new country's survival and its people's freedom.

Presumed dead after escaping kidnappers and crashing in Wyoming, John Harris sees an opportunity to expand his fledgling nation. While allies organize a rescue, he confronts gangs and local strongmen across the fractured American Northwest.

John Harris's new nation reels from coordinated attacks by hostile forces. As he prepares a response, the struggle to protect its survivors unfolds alongside his relationship with Beth in a country devastated by nuclear war and collapse.

Teenage girls have vanished for generations from a Kentucky town where their disappearances are dismissed as runaways. When Sam becomes a victim herself, she faces a serial killer and powerful people determined to keep the truth buried.

After surviving the dangers surrounding her town's missing girls, Sam investigates how murders and trafficking have remained concealed for years. Suspicions involving a powerful Kentucky figure make uncovering the truth a struggle against both violence and entrenched influence.

Prepared for disaster but unready for its scale, Matt faces a devastating solar flare and an even greater cosmic threat. As criminals scour a collapsing world, he struggles to defend his property and protect the people he loves.

Winter deepens the hardships facing Zack's survivors after EMP attacks destroy America's infrastructure. A mayor controls dwindling food supplies, an invasion looms, and the group must decide whether to rebuild locally or abandon the country for safety.

John Harris struggles home after kidnapping, a plane crash, and battles across the devastated country. His son leads a search party, but news of an attack on John's home base threatens the reunion he has fought to reach.

A coordinated attack destroys the systems supporting everyday life across the United States. As families and communities struggle with scarce food, fuel, and trust, ordinary people face increasingly difficult choices about protecting those they love.

Zack Johnson has reached his Kentucky farm and secured his daughter's safety, but grief and old enemies threaten their future. With infrastructure destroyed and violence spreading, he must build a new life without knowing whom to trust.

After solar catastrophe cripples civilization, Matt awakens stranded on a small sailboat with no memory of who he is. Fighting pirates, a cartel, and the sea, he follows a persistent sense that people he loves are missing.

Nuclear and electromagnetic attacks leave the Karr family scattered across a collapsing America. Reaching their prepared refuge requires dangerous journeys through ruined communities, while shortages force difficult choices about defending their loved ones from desperate strangers and violent opportunists.

Having reached their refuge, the Karrs face a new crisis when relatives are arrested as looters and sent to a FEMA camp. Rescue efforts unfold alongside threats from desperate outsiders and corrupt officials intent on seizing the family's supplies.

Contamination from an ancient alien spacecraft spreads across Earth, killing billions and mutating animals into dangerous predators. The remaining humans must survive both the collapse of civilization and creatures whose relentless hunger makes the aftermath more perilous than the outbreak.

After alien organisms devastate Earth, a close-knit group struggles to survive among mutated animals and lingering infections. Their future depends on cooperation and containing the contamination unleashed from a crashed spacecraft before it destroys what remains of humanity.

A biological attack on New York revives CIA agent Max Owens's memories of captivity and a suspected weapons program. Working with intelligence and disease specialists, he must identify the perpetrators before a larger outbreak threatens lives worldwide.

Ordinary Joe is forced into a dangerous journey after America collapses into violence and scarcity. Without military training or extensive preparations of his own, he relies on letters from his grandmother to guide decisions about survival and trust.

After surviving an EMP disaster in Oregon, Cole Biggs is abducted and forced into a Kentucky coal mine run by a rogue FEMA faction. Determined to escape with new friends, he faces a perilous journey back to his family.

Former mechanic Joe Harp struggles to keep a small group alive in the ruins of southern Oregon. When Cobie, the single mother he loves, is abducted, he risks their fragile security to rescue her amid spreading hunger and violence.

Cole's escaped companions must delay their journey to Oregon while wounded members recover, leaving them vulnerable to pursuit. Internal disputes, criminals, and a FEMA faction seeking forced labor threaten the group's fragile hope of making it home together.

A meteor disaster and coordinated attacks cripple the power grid, leaving Tom Horn to help hold an Arizona community together. As he and his friends confront widespread destruction, a hired killer revives the cartel threat that drove him into hiding.

With basic supplies secured, Joe's survivor group seeks allies while confronting criminals, betrayal, and would-be rulers. His grandmother's letters guide a search for promised resources, but new discoveries and personal losses test whether he can become the leader they need.

Joe and Cobie help their survivors join a larger network that trades supplies and offers mutual protection. Improved conditions bring little respite from grief and violence as the community confronts gangs and slavers across Oregon and northern California.

After meteors, cyberattacks, and electromagnetic blasts devastate the world, Tom and his companions struggle to protect Stony Creek. Their survival efforts become more dangerous as a cartel hitman pursues Tom, bringing an old personal threat into the disaster.

Outnumbered defenders struggle to protect their community after civilization collapses. Jason Walker and Maria McGill must train inexperienced women for combat, hoping unconventional tactics and determination can overcome the better-armed forces threatening their families and friends.

Wounded soldier Jason Walker and his military dog, MMax, are flying home when an EMP brings down their plane. Stranded amid societal collapse, they must survive hostile territory and discover whether there is still a home to reach.

Still recovering from wartime injuries and a plane crash, Jason Walker and his dog, MMax, search for his brother and sister. In an EMP-shattered country, finding family means confronting desperate strangers and defending their commitment to leave nobody behind.

A runaway biological weapon kills billions, but Jon discovers that he and a few others are immune. Scientists seeking his blood and a rogue military unit turn survival into a pursuit, while an intelligent vehicle helps him resist capture.

Jon and fellow survivors hope to share their immunity to a devastating virus through blood transfusions. Powerful enemies instead want to exploit them, forcing the group to evade bounty hunters while seeking a way to save others without sacrificing themselves.

An EMP attack brings down Tom's flight home from Hawaii, leaving his family stranded amid spreading chaos. He, his sister, and their grandmother must use their preparedness skills to reach their ranch in southern Oregon.

Professor John Logan discovers a murder and a conspiracy in Mobile, Alabama, then joins his daughter and a student to investigate. Their search exposes a technology billionaire's deadly plan and draws attacks designed to keep them from intervening.

After governments and financial systems collapse, fifty-eight-year-old Jeff Mann rescues two women from human traffickers. Together they begin resisting the slavers while trying to survive a world where hunger, violence, and exploitation have become commonplace.

Having survived an EMP disaster and the journey home, Tom's family faces a cartel and a violent extremist group fighting over southern Oregon. Recruiting capable allies becomes essential as betrayal threatens their already precarious chances of survival.

Tom's family reaches its prepared ranch after an EMP disaster, but supplies and survival skills cannot answer every challenge. To keep them alive, he must reconsider his grandfather's strict rule against allowing outsiders into their group.

After fleeing a devastated United States, Zack's group finds refuge on a Caribbean island. Its apparent security comes under a dictator's rule, forcing the survivors to decide how much freedom they are willing to surrender for protection.

Jeff's growing community in northern Alabama offers comfort amid widespread hunger and violence. But its expansion makes concealment harder, and an army operating to the south threatens the security he and his neighbors have worked to establish.

Forced to flee Dauphin Island, Jeff, Ollie, and Maria sail toward northern Florida in search of her family ranch. Finding safety means navigating lawless territory, learning from one another, and confronting the possibility of betrayal within their group.

Solar storms destroy power grids and supply chains, leaving Monty sheltering with family and strangers as millions die. Already scarred by war and personal loss, he discovers his stepfather’s murder may connect the catastrophe to corrupt government officials.

After solar storms destroy the grid, Monty leads fellow survivors from a safe room toward his ranch. Building a community requires cooperation with strangers, including an assassin whose involvement in his stepfather's death makes trust particularly difficult.

Solar devastation and nuclear attacks have left Monty's survivors facing powerful enemies across a shattered country. Tired of retreating, he joins forces with Jane's intelligence network and other allies to fight for their community's future.

Monty's group has survived catastrophic solar storms, but Nevada's worsening heat and repeated attacks make their refuge untenable. With a cartel threatening betrayal, Monty and Hank must decide where their people can build a safer home.

Walt expects the government to manage a worsening national crisis, until America's collapse leaves him and his loved ones on their own. Using practical skills and determination, he tries to guide a group toward safety amid spreading violence and scarcity.

Walt's group has survived coordinated attacks with food, weapons, and shelter secured through his father's preparations. But the collapse of society leaves them surrounded by desperate survivors and newly emboldened predators, making protection of their refuge increasingly difficult.