Jerry Ahern Books in Order

While searching for his missing family after nuclear war, John Rourke learns that Florida faces a catastrophic earthquake. He must reach military intelligence and locate his friend Paul before rival occupation forces and a traitor obstruct evacuation.

After nuclear war devastates America, John Rourke and Paul Rubenstein struggle home through refugees, brigands, and occupying troops. Soviet forces hunt a surviving cabinet member whose leadership could unite resistance, drawing Rourke into the fight for a new government.

John Rourke reaches home after nuclear war and discovers that his family survived but fled. As he searches with Paul Rubenstein, Soviet forces and American resistance pursue the mysterious Eden Project, while a government traitor complicates their struggle.

When nuclear war tears America apart, survival expert John Rourke begins a journey to find his missing wife and children. Soviet occupation forces, violent outlaws, and contaminated landscapes stand between him and the scattered clues to their whereabouts.

John Rourke searches the devastated West Coast for a hidden cache of nuclear missiles. With Natalia badly wounded, he takes refuge aboard a submarine before confronting a murderous coastal cult and a suspicious officer who threatens his mission.

Continuing his search for his family, John Rourke struggles through storms and evades Russian troops seeking Eden Project secrets. An apparently untouched Tennessee mountain village offers refuge, until he discovers a suicide pact that expects him to join.

Dan Track pursues Johannes Krieger as the Nazi conspirator threatens governments with nuclear weapons hidden beneath major cities. With multiple bombs in place and international extortion under way, Track must disrupt a scheme capable of triggering worldwide destruction.

Daniel Track and arms smuggler Desiree Goth follow Johannes Krieger into Soviet territory, where a nuclear bomb threatens a research facility. Their struggle against the Nazi mastermind becomes a race to prevent an explosion designed to defy attempts at disarmament.

Reunited with his family after nuclear war, John Rourke faces a new danger: the atmosphere may ignite across the globe. A brutal Soviet scheme compounds the crisis, forcing him to protect his loved ones while seeking a way to survive.

John Rourke and his family emerge into a desolate world after a global fire, believing their retreat may be humanity's last refuge. Discovering other survivors brings a new threat when cannibal attackers endanger everyone he has struggled to protect.

With Earth's atmosphere approaching combustion, John Rourke desperately tries to reach and rescue his family. Russian patrols and a sinister KGB conspiracy block his path as the survivors of nuclear war confront a catastrophe that could eliminate all life.

Dan Track travels to Las Vegas to investigate Soviet-backed gangsters challenging the Mafia. Their attempt to seize a casino escalates into a hostage crisis, with hundreds of lives threatened by a plot to destroy the building if they fail.

Johannes Krieger steals a hundred nuclear warheads in a scheme to revive Nazi power. Dan Track confronts the first immediate threat aboard a train heading into Chicago, where a ticking bomb leaves him minutes to prevent a devastating explosion.

After surviving World War III, John Rourke searches for his wife and son while six nuclear missiles threaten another catastrophe. His personal quest becomes a race to stop a final conflagration that could wipe out humanity altogether.

Dan Track follows the trail of a sister he once believed dead, determined to rescue her from captivity. Evidence that she has been brainwashed and turned against him complicates a dangerous pursuit that takes him into Afghanistan.

When an American senator's daughter becomes caught in a drug lord's power struggle, Dan Track is called in to rescue her. He must enter the traffickers' territory and confront enemies who see their hostage as leverage against the United States.

Dan Track travels to Acapulco to trap a major KGB operative, but his operation is disrupted by a more ambitious enemy. The leader of D.E.A.T.H., a ruthless international organization, turns an espionage mission into a struggle against a scheme for global domination.

A KGB agent tells Dan Track that the sister he buried a decade ago is alive in Soviet captivity. The offer of help forces him to weigh a desperate chance of rescuing her against the possibility of an elaborate trap.

Dan Track faces the returning leader of D.E.A.T.H. as a new operation targets an American space shuttle launch. Sabotage threatens to cripple the space program, giving the criminal mastermind an opening to destabilize governments that stand in his way.

Dan Track and Desiree are stranded in Idaho when a blizzard closes in, but the weather is only their first danger. Relentless D.E.A.T.H. attacks reveal that their survival is entangled with the Master's latest plan to devastate civilization.

John Rourke enters an uneasy alliance with a former Nazi to protect the Eden Project from Communist domination. Unsure whom to trust, he risks his family and friends in a rebellion intended to free a world shattered by nuclear war.

With his son critically wounded and his family kidnapped, John Rourke discovers that a Russian enemy believed dead has returned. He sets out for a Colorado stronghold, racing to rescue captives threatened with torture and execution.

Pursuing the Russian agent who kidnapped his daughter, John Rourke discovers an isolated Icelandic community amid the Arctic ice. As an enemy strike force approaches, he must prepare its peaceful inhabitants to defend themselves against a war they scarcely understand.

John Rourke tracks Vladimir Karamatsov into devastated China, where his enemy intends to seize a surviving nuclear arsenal. Armed with a gas that turns people into violent killers, Karamatsov threatens to plunge the remaining world into another atomic catastrophe.

John Rourke's son Michael is imprisoned while seeking peaceful relations with China's Second City. As its ruler threatens nuclear destruction and a Russian commander advances on the arsenal, Rourke must rescue Michael between two powerful enemy forces.

A weapon uncovered near the Great Pyramid offers Vladimir Karamatsov a means of conquering the devastated world. John Rourke searches the Ural Mountains for a Soviet underground city, driven by both the threat and a deeply personal need for revenge.

A terrorist attack aboard a luxury cruise ship becomes a potential biological disaster when a KGB virus enters the crisis. The Surgical Strike team reunites to save the passengers and prevent an outbreak threatening several nations downwind.

As the FLNA promotes a mayoral candidate backed by an international drugs-and-guns syndicate, David Holden and his Patriots resist its campaign. Attacks and a kidnapping involving the Special Task Force turn the election fight into a personal confrontation.

David Holden leads his Patriots against terrorists turning American cities into battlefields, while authorities view his resistance with suspicion. A master assassin now targets the former Navy SEAL, threatening the man standing between the conspiracy and its victory.

Beneath the Pacific, John Rourke becomes caught in a hidden war between an American military complex and a vast Russian seabed city. When the Russians prepare to return to the surface, he must escape captivity and warn his allies.

A violent mayoral campaign gives the FLNA an opportunity to intimidate voters through bombings, kidnappings, and murder. Outlawed resistance leader David Holden joins a secret FBI team in an effort to stop the terrorists from capturing political power.

Four specialists drawn from America's military elite launch a covert raid against a Middle Eastern terrorist stronghold. Their mission introduces a forceful new counterterrorism policy, but attacking the network risks retaliation that could cost innocent people their lives.

Organized gangs equipped with advanced weapons unleash coordinated violence across America, overwhelming the authorities. After a devastating personal loss, professor and former Navy SEAL David Holden takes up arms, beginning a resistance that puts him at odds with government and terrorists alike.

As Soviet troops move toward Eden Base and the Hekla Community, John Rourke is trapped behind enemy lines with an incapacitated Natalia. Hostile battalions and violent Second City survivors threaten their escape while the enemy closes on a surviving nuclear arsenal.

After the president's murder, David Holden and his Patriots are blamed as martial law spreads across America. A videotape could expose the FLNA and the new president, but getting that evidence to the public requires one more dangerous commando mission.

David Holden and his Patriots strike an FLNA island headquarters, prompting its leader to prepare an assassination plot against the president. As the terrorists also seek to capture Holden, his resistance force risks being drawn into a fatal trap.

After enduring captivity and torture by the FLNA, David Holden escapes with a woman and becomes a hunted fugitive. He must survive the pursuit while preparing to strike back at the terrorist organization that tried to break him.

Russian forces attack the Eden Project using particle-beam weapons, drawing John Rourke and international allies into a widening war. Earth's damaged atmosphere makes even one nuclear explosion potentially fatal to humanity, leaving him desperate to prevent the conflict from escalating.

With an FLNA-backed figure occupying the White House, David Holden becomes a hunted obstacle to the terrorists' plans. He and his commandos must rescue the wounded president from a secret refuge before assassins reach the country's legitimate leader.

John Thomas Rourke reaches Mid-Wake and learns that Colonel Antonovich is planning an alliance with Russians at an undersea base. In a world shattered by nuclear war, he prepares a counterattack to prevent his enemies from uniting.

Patriot leader David Holden has survived capture and torture in a South American cocaine stronghold. Now free, he prepares a personal retaliation against the FLNA terrorists whose campaign threatens both him and the future of America.

A Soviet particle-beam weapon threatens to shift power in the devastated postwar world. Allied with New Germany, John Thomas Rourke heads into the frozen Urals to steal its secret before a nuclear response destroys the fragile ecosystem.

A counterterrorism exercise in an Alpine village becomes real when terrorists slaughter a NATO squad and seize schoolchildren. Barely armed, Babcock, Hughes, and Cross must protect the hostages as darkness and freezing temperatures intensify the crisis.

With terrorists controlling America's military and president, David Holden's Patriots gain allies among defiant Native American fighters. Holden prepares a final surprise attack against drug kingpins and FLNA leaders, risking everything in a battle for freedom.

Terrorists imprison American military officers in a brutal Montana camp after seizing control of the armed forces. David Holden and his Patriots plan a rescue, but the operation may be a trap designed to destroy their resistance.

The terrorist-backed FLNA takes control of America's armed forces and transports loyal officers in railway boxcars. David Holden's Patriots must free the prisoners before they are killed, turning the rescue into another front in their resistance.

John Rourke's allies attempt to reproduce Soviet particle-beam weapons as rival enemy factions move toward an alliance. A devastating attack on New Germany forces a desperate plan to strike both an undersea base and an underground city.

After attacking Soviet and fascist forces near Eden, John Thomas Rourke's rebels retreat into the Rift Valley. Land Pirates ambush them with mobile particle-beam arsenals, leaving the fighters trapped among hostile armies and struggling to survive.

A terrorist bombing forces John Thomas Rourke into cryogenic sleep after peace returns to Eden. During his absence, Land Pirates armed with mobile fortresses threaten freedom again, leaving humanity dependent on reviving its wounded defender in time.

A volcanic eruption devastates John Rourke's island stronghold, killing thousands and destroying communications. Assassins exploit the weakened defenses before enemy forces attack by sea and air, forcing him to organize a counterattack amid chemical warfare.

John Thomas Rourke learns that neo-fascist commandos plan to cripple the free city of Eden from within. He deploys his SEAL and tactical teams in a desperate counterattack as an enemy offensive threatens the island nation's survival.

John Rourke prepares for an escalating confrontation with Dietrich Zimmer, with the world's future at stake. As he corners his longtime enemy, an attack from an unexpected opponent threatens to overturn his plans and end his life.

Wounded John Rourke leaves his hospital bed as Nazi forces prepare to attack the Trans-Global Alliance. A rebellious enemy officer offers a risky opening, while a spreading volcanic threat makes control of the remaining nuclear warheads essential.

Dietrich Zimmer holds Sarah hostage and demands that John Rourke retrieve Adolf Hitler's frozen corpse. Crossing New York's toxic wastelands, Rourke and his commandos must penetrate a mountain complex defended by an underground society of technologically advanced warriors.

Jerry Ahern surveys personal defense equipment, including concealed handguns, holsters, knives, clubs, and improvised weapons. Comparisons of calibers, revolvers, and semiautomatic pistols frame a guide concerned with choosing tools for threats at home or away.

This illustrated buyer's guide compares handguns and equipment for concealed carry, examining revolvers, semiautomatic pistols, calibers, and holsters. Jerry Ahern combines discussion of carrying choices with firearm evaluations to help readers understand the available options.

Jerry Ahern addresses preparation for disruptions ranging from power failures and severe weather to pandemics and terrorism. Food storage, generators, vehicles, and defensive equipment form part of a practical handbook covering both brief emergencies and longer crises.

A psychiatrist is abducted by a hired killer who demands treatment for his fear of sleep. Refusal could cost her life, but the captivity forces her to draw on concealed resources as she searches for a way to escape.