John Jantunen Books in Order

After escaping a police raid, two pit bulls fatally maul a young child and disappear into the wilderness around Bracebridge. The search for them forms the backdrop to three interwoven narratives in which good intentions go wrong.

Former football star Curtis Mays returns from military service to Regina, where residents mourn a wealthy man's young granddaughter. Piecing together the events surrounding her death, he discovers connections to his own past choices and friendships.

After civilization collapses, an isolated family struggles against violent former soldiers and a hostile environment. Their young son rescues a girl escaping a destructive cult, pulling him into a conflict over the future of the survivors.

An attack on ex-con Rene Descartes sets off violent retaliation near wealthy northern Ontario retreats. Reporter Deacon Riis suspects a more elaborate plan behind the destruction, involving someone trying to enact a local novelist's apocalyptic fiction.

Serving life sentences for killing his wife's murderers, Gerald Nichols escapes prison as society collapses. To find his son, he must cross a landscape dominated by predatory biker gangs and reclaim the violent identity he hoped to abandon.

A decade after surviving a town's destruction, reporter Deacon Riis receives an invitation linked to a horror film adaptation. New attacks modeled on an apocalyptic novel suggest an old threat has returned, endangering everything he values.

Former police chief Mason Lowry plans revenge on the biker gang responsible for his granddaughter’s death. When the gang withholds a drug that causes violent withdrawal, a captive teenager becomes his unexpected ally amid the city’s collapse.