But as the ringmaster of torture orchestrates his magnum opus, a stunning sideshow is under way. Ryan wants a second chance to chill Magus once and for all.

. Using a rigid code of honor learned from pre-nukecaust fantasies and westerns, Thunder Rider is a self-styled superhero, serving up mass murder in a haze of napalm and nerve gas. At his secret fortress, Thunder Rider waits-a one-man army powerful enough to destroy all comers and ready to give his murderous madness free rein..

The sulphur-teeming Gulf of Mexico is the poisoned end of the earth, but loaded cargo ships ruined by skydark lure doomie and cutthroat alike, Here, Ryan and the others glean rumors of whole cities deep in South America that survived the blast intact. The Lords of Death are Mexican pirates raiding stockpiles with grim vengeance. When civilization hits rock bottom, a new stone age will emerge, with its own personal day of blood reckoning. Now it is.

Helpless, Krysty, Dix and the others await a horrifying fate at the hands of white coats manipulating pre-dark plague warfare. Captured by the pirate foot soldiers of the mysterious Lords of Death, Ryan Cawdor and his companions sail into a surreal world where electric lights blaze but blood terror reigns.. (Empire of Xibalba - 2 of 2).

Ryan and his warrior group join in, although it means an uneasy truce with an old enemy, going back to the days of spilled blood and the legacy of the Trader. But to see it means surviving today-any way he can. into Deathlands..

Young, silent and lethal, she's part of a new trading convoy quick to invite Ryan Cawdor and his band on a journey across the hostile terrain. Driven by the fires of hope, a resilient band of warriors traverse the new frontier of the future, survivors by skill and legends by reputation. Humanity perseveres, but the Deathlands code is far simpler: kill or be killed, live or die trying. especially when it comes to vengeance.

Jak is missing, Krysty is dying and the train is loaded with sec men, whitecoats and a horrifying experiment-a baron with psionic abilities using stolen children to fuel his mad dream for mind control of every living soul in Deathlands..

. Barely escaping a redoubt hidden in an old aircraft carrier guarded by killer droids, the companions emerge into the backwater world of Lake Superior's Royal Island. Time may be the enemy in the daily struggle to stay alive, but perhaps it can reveal something better. Here, metal and salt are commodities worth killing and dying for and two rival barons rule mutant-infested land and water with blood will.

Hunger for jack and power now fuels traders and barons, who relinquish authority only through death, crushing everything in their path..After the nuclear winter, the taint of humanity worsened in the raw blood-quest for survival.

. Now Ryan and Doc struggle to survive this enclave of unimaginable terror, trapped in a baronial conflict between the rulers of night and day, with only one way out -- internecine war in a world of the damned. The Nightwalkers unleash a hellish feast of horror when the sun goes down.

But for these unwilling participants, the endgame of their enigmatic host remains hidden in the secret maze of laboratories beneath Arcady, where a new terror is about to be reborn.. Turning his ville into the nascent heartbeat of the new civilization would require the help of Ryan Cawdor and his warrior group.

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Now, these superhuman predators are back, ready to topple the hellscape's baronies one by one.Devastation from the nukewar shattered civilization and left a planet both primitive and ripe for rebirth - or retaking.

Yet in the heart of this warrior, the quest to find a place of peace beats on unrelenting.. The rocky shores are rife with the sulfur mines that make Deathlands' richest jack - gunpowder. The pristine coastal waters off San Clemente become a battleground over the island and its abandoned naval station.

When the good fight needs to be won, Ryan and his band take a stand. Legends endure and Ryan Cawdor is a warrior of his time.

His gruesome manipulation of life and death are about to put the group in a race for their own salvation.

Escaping their captors leaves them alive but stripped of their prized gear: their weps, J. They roam a disfigured America, searching for pre-dark tech. For one legendary band of warriors, this barbaric new world holds a chance for redemption: the secrets of the past.

Still, there remain pockets of preDark technology that may offer undiscovered paths to reclaiming the future.The ravaged landscape that was America two centuries ago is now blighted by post-nuclear holocaust savagery.

Their leader, Ryan Cawdor, is a Deathlands legend, a warrior and hero to many, a relentless enemy to more..

Existence after Skydark is a gamble against grim odds-winners and losers decided by guns, jack and raw nerve. Staying alive is all about buying time-waiting for their one chance to chill their captors..

The unchecked wrath of Deathlands pits Ryan Cawdor and his companions against long odds. But the barony's inviting name masks a ville hijacked by fear, territorial conflict and monstrous horror.The future rose from the ashes of nuke-scorched America with a vengeance.

Ryan Cawdor and his companions agree to ride sec for a convoy headed west across the remnants of the old Trans-Canada Highway to retrieve the ultimate prize: four portable nuclear reactors. It's enough power to light up a ville for years, a bright beacon for a new tomorrow.

. Steeped in beauty and mysticism, the canyons of Mesa Verde, Colorado, survived the blast that altered the American west.

It takes skill, cunning and a warrior's heart. A virulent strain of a predark biowep has been unleashed upon the denizens of northern Kansas, turning them into rotting, flesh-eating monsters.

Yet Ryan Cawdor and his companions remain determined to persevere by doing whatever it takes to survive.and the group rushes to escape paradise before it destroys them..Everyone who lives in Deathlands must endure the hellscape of a world mutilated by nukes and madness.

.. But Snake Eye, the deadliest gunslinger in Deathlands, stands between them and the way out.

There's a map to a mysterious valley rich with predark stockpiles.Burying the past in a nuclear cull, Deathlands spares no one from its punishing assault. Ryan Cawdor and his group of fellow survivors scour the perilous land for sanctuary in a world where nothing is guaranteed but death.

Or worse..

Hot lead keeps people sharp, but it's the fire within that keeps them alive. But claims to a fallen elk get ugly and Ryan is forced to chill another hunter, the self-proclaimed king of the Granite Highlands, over the meat. Ryan Cawdor and his band roam Deathlands searching for somewhere to call home.

R. Ryan Cawdor and his fellow warriors seize each day, armed and ready to hold on to the only life they've got..