and damnation.After an atomic blast hurled the world into an uncertain future, the past still reaches out in hope. In their struggle to seek a better way of life, they are unraveling the powerful secrets of the hell on Earth called Deathlands..

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Beneath the brutal sun of the nuke-ravaged Southwest, the Texas desert burns red hot and merciless, commanding agony and untold riches to those greedy and mad enough to mine the slick black crude that lies beneath the scorched earth.and face death. A roving band of survivalists driven to seek a better life, they are unwilling to pay the highest price demanded by the unforgiving crucible called Deathlands..

At the heart of the strange new post-nuclear world known as Deathlands lie the mysteries of pre-dark society-secrets that may hold the key to a future of peace.. Armed with rare knowledge of top secret twenty-first-century technology, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists traverse the new America, seeking to claim something beyond the grim reality of Deathlands.

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.Survival in America's nuke-blasted frontier is both a curse and a salvation for Ryan Cawdor and his warrior companions. In the Deathlands, you are sentenced to your destiny from the moment of birth.

..In the ruins of a nuke-shattered America, every man, woman and child of the apocalyptic frontier makes a perilous journey to the future.

or a cold heart alive.. Stranded in the salty desert wastes of West Texas, Ryan and his companions find pre-Dark wheels and set out on a treacherous journey across inhospitable terrain.

(Scorpion God - 2 of 2).

Yet, in this kill-or-be-killed world where justice is the way of the past and blood is law, hope is the last refuge of the doomed.

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. His thriving ville offers a special commodity: blood sport. Ryan Cawdor has endured the worst that Deathlands has to offer and continues to push on, leading his companions through a land of madness and treachery, seizing each new day with a deep, primal hope that refuses to die. But the perverse and powerful baron has changed the rules.

. In the Deathlands everyone has a future.After a nuclear blast all but vaporized the Western Hemisphere in the late twenty-first century, America became known as Deathlands, a hellhole that has proved itself a formidable foe in the fight for survival-a place where the will to see another day comes down to raw courage and a good aim.

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Armed with secrets of pre-Dark tech, they possess what few in Deathlands can imagine: hope for a better tomorrow. Ryan Cawdor is gunned down and left for dead by the new Provisional U.S.

(Altered States - 1 of 2). Act first, ask questions later..

to whatever lies beyond the daily fight for existence. Having broken away from the strange, isolated community known as Atlantis and led by the obscene and paranoid Odyssey, this small group desires to live in peace..

. For Ryan Cawdor and his band, survival in Deathlands means keeping hold of what you have-or losing it along with your life. In the ancient canyons of New Mexico, the citizens of Little Pueblo prepare to sacrifice Ryan and his companions to demons locked inside a twentieth-century dam project.

In their darkest moments, few citizens of the twentieth century could have envisioned the firestorm that plunged the world into the chaos of a nuke-altered reality. But nothing can prepare them for Dr.

and the prize he seeks. Ryan Cawdor is the only man living who stands between this adversary's glory.

Journeying across the devastated frontier of post-nuclear America, Ryan Cawdor and his companions have unlocked clandestine knowledge of pre-Dark tech, secrets that give them an edge for staying alive, an edge augmented by an ability to fight.

Now she's stricken by a plague that brings on a deep craving for human flesh. Unwilling to lose one of their own to this pervasive pestilence without a fight, the companions follow the trail to Cajun country, where the mysterious queen of the Cannies is rumored to possess the only antidote to the grim fate that awaits Mildred.

Yet few among the most tyrannical barons can rival the ruthlessness of Sandra Tregart, whose despotic visions are being realized by resurrected technology: air power..

and their unwilling new sec force led by Ryan Cawdor.After twenty-first century America exploded in the chaos of a nuclear nightmare, a raw new landscape emerged, a world where death and dreams clash.

In the wake of a nuclear Armageddon, the hell scape of Deathlands conspires to torment strong and weak alike, festering most deeply in those who still possess the deepest core of human decency.

In the Deathlands, the only safe place is the grave... Traversing the terrain of Utah, Ryan Cawdor and his warrior survivalists find new evidence that the past is alive and dangerous-with a score to settle.

Reborn primeval in the fires of thermonuclear hell, America's aftermath is one of manifest evil, savage endurance and lingering hope. Now, the savage Pacific isles above a long-submerged Southern California are his new arena. In the Deathlands, life is cheap, death is free and survival demands the highest price of all.

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In the Deathlands, the future could always be worse.

As the Lords of Death unleash their demonic vision, hop-for Ryan, the others and nascent civilization-appears irrevocably lost.