Nick Cole Books in Order

Forty years after nuclear war, an elderly salvager leaves his desert village to overcome a run of bad luck. Guided by memories and a treasured Hemingway novel, he ventures deeper into the dangerous ruins of the American Southwest.

A boy and his horse cross a nuclear wasteland to carry out the final mission of the last American soldier. Hostile tribes and the remnants of a shattered country make their journey a struggle for survival.

Professional gamer PerfectQuestion fights corporate battles for ColaCorp in WarWorld. Seeking extra money in an illegal fantasy game draws him into a conspiracy whose powerful players are prepared to kill outside the virtual battlefield.

After civilization collapses, a group of survivors builds a castle in the ruins of suburban Southern California. Holiday joins their struggle against the undead, otherworldly creatures, and an ancient power threatening to conquer reality itself.

An artificial intelligence hidden within the internet decides humanity must be eliminated. When its drones attack WonderSoft to capture the secret DesignCore project, a collection of geeks and misfits becomes the unlikely defense against extinction.

Frank and Holiday compete for power within a castle sheltering survivors of the apocalypse. Outside its walls, Ash undertakes a nighttime rescue of a vulnerable adult whose disturbing vision points toward a new threat to humanity.

A future artist assembles three accounts of a pandemic that destroyed America. Ground-zero recollections and a journal of travel through ruined cities trace two lovers trying to survive an undead outbreak and the collapse around them.

Convinced that filmmaking is destroying his health, a director decides to save himself by deliberately making a terrible movie. His carefully chosen disasters become harder to control as producers, cast, and crew interfere with the plan.

With the survivors’ castle under siege, Holiday investigates a mysterious structure among the ruins of a Marine base. Braddock’s troops face a zombie inferno, while Frank Romano must confront his past to defend the refuge.

Mercenary Ward escapes a doomed cargo plane into an amusement park overrun by the undead. A faster predator, strange science, supernatural forces, and a mysterious companion in black complicate his efforts to stay alive.

PerfectQuestion accepts a lucrative gaming assignment from a prince ruling a Southern California caliphate. The civilization-building game proves entangled with international power struggles, and a CIA recruitment attempt leaves the professional gamer fighting to escape.

After resettling his village in Tucson, the Old Man answers a plea from survivors trapped in a Colorado bunker. Traveling by tank with his granddaughter, he faces scarce fuel and the dangers of the nuclear wasteland.

A mercenary company stranded on a remote planet finds its contract turning disastrous as superior Monarch forces close in. Reaching the evacuation zone will require desperate fighting and the unusual abilities of its Voodoo platoon.

Strange Company must hold a crucial landing zone during an invasion of a Monarch world. Against elite troops, augmented veterans, and an armed population, its mercenaries rely on combat mechs, Voodoo operators, and desperate battlefield tricks.

Strange Company must board and destroy the Monarch Empire’s last ship to repay a debt and restore its reputation. As civilization collapses, Sergeant Orion and his mercenaries prepare for close-quarters fighting against heavily armed commandos and strange psychic defenders.

Sergeant Mike Ramero boards a drifting Martian warhulk to rescue an elite Marine squad. As soldiers disappear inside the damaged vessel, he realizes the apparent derelict is a trap inhabited by a fast-breeding predator that hunts through the vents.

Sergeant Mike Ramero and his surviving marines must destroy an alien-infested warhulk before approaching fleets capture it. With their first demolition plan defeated, they turn to boarding actions and traps to keep the infestation from spreading beyond the ship.