Stories of the Trader and his convoy of war wagons endure in the badlands of post-holocaust America..

Dix-set out on a harrowing journey to find a rumored enclave high in the mountains.

.But the future in a world shrouded in the radioactive red dust clouds of a generation-old global nuclear war depends on finding hidden caches of food, weapons and technology-the legacy of a preholocaust society-stashed in lonely outposts known as redoubts. When Ryan Cawdor discovers a redoubt in the bitter freakish wasteland that now passes for Alaska, he also uncovers a new threat to a slowly reemerging America.

Dix come upon one such group who are striving to revive life on earth the way it was before the bombs fell. In the Deathlands, the world blew out in 2001.A generation after a global nuclear war, Louisiana is a fetid, sullen landscape of impenetrable swamps and grotesquely mutated wildlife.

These psychopathic descendants of a twentieth-century government research team are blindy laboring to find better ways of genocide, unaware that the world they are striving to slaughter has already died. In a frantic race to stop this bizarre society from testing its horrific weapons, Ryan realizes that if he fails an already nuke-scorched Earth faces another Armageddon.

In the Deathlands, honor and fair play are words of the past. Accompanied by Krysty Wroth and J. Vengeance is a word to live by.

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Out of the ruins come Ryan Cawdor and his band of post-holocaust survivors, whose odyssey discovery takes them in search of other pockets of civilization. Vast areas of what was the United States lie beneath an unbrella of noxious dust and radioactive debris, a mantle of destruction drawn over a land of doom. Emerging from a gateway in Maine, Ryan confronts a ruthless and brutal sea captain, a woman prepared to go to any lengths to get what she wants.

Ryan Cawdor and his companions emerge from a gateway and step into the path of a smoldering war for power.

But in the Deathlands, hope is not enough..

A generation after a global nuclear catastrophe, Minnesota is a steamy tropical environment of lush plants and horrifically mutated insects.

The future is a nightmare..

In the Deathlands, everyone and everything is fair game, but only the strongest survive.Generations after a near nuclear annihilation, America is a radiation-ravaged wasteland swarming with a thousand horrifically mutated life forms.. Ryan Cawdor and his band of post-holocaust survivors barely escape a self-destructing redoubt in the new southwest and embark on a journey overland to find the nearest gateway.

. He is Ryan Cawdor's son.. The city is a flooded hellzone ruled by street gangs and hordes of reptilian mutants who inhabit the sewers.

with only one way out. In the Deathlands, the future is a dream..

Ryan travels to the snowy wastes north of the forty-ninth parallel to rescue his young son, enslaved in a mining colony.. Trekking through the ruins of a devastated America, they search for secrets of the past that might promise a future. Welcome to the Deathlands, where you don't have to die to go to hell.

Generations have passed since a nuclear blast all but turned America to dust. Ryan devises an escape plan but is betrayed by another prisoner.. An ambush by a roving group of mutant Stickies puts Ryan and Krysty Wroth in the clutches of a tyrant who plans a human sacrifice as a symbol of his power.

Ryan fears for her life, especially since she's a woman. Moving through the ruins in the safety of an abandoned war wag, they discover a small community that was once the sprawling metropolis of Chicago. Ryan realizes that someone, or something, wants them gone-or dead. In the Deathlands, life is a contest where the only victor is death.

B. Death is the only sure bet. Not far from Nelson's barony lies Yuma, a nasty hellhole every badman in the Rockies calls home.

Here, a brilliant scientist offers the perfect vacation of sun, fishing and fun.Once an idyllic chain of inlets running from Key Largo to Key West, the Florida Keys have become an isolated universe of grotesquely mutated wildlife and bizarre submarine malformations. Until Ryan discovers this post-holocaust aquatic paradise is a hoax-and gentle dolphins are being mutated into killers.

Gone are the amber waves of grain, another hideous result of nuclear devastation that changed the face of the Earth forever. Following rumors that might lead them to the long-lost Trader, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists find themselves the unwilling house guests of the wealthiest barons in all of Deathlands.. Now it's survival of the freakish.

.Survival is an endless battle in the dark age of post-holocaust America, but even amid the ashes of the past, new pockets of civilization emerge, fledgeling communities bound by savage rules. The ville is an oasis in a blighted land, but among the blond, blue-eyed near-children, Ryan and his wayfarers are pariahs destined to find out that the quest for Paradise exacts a steep price.

. Roving and plundering the Southwest, the General travels with an unsurpassed armory, his troops unchallenged, his agenda unstoppable.

. But if the wasteland's endless miles come between them, the odds for getting back together again-for their very survival-are not in their favor. While Ryan battles the blood-hungry predators of the road, back in New Mexico, Krysty Wroth and the others fight off attacks against their weakened group in an all-out struggle for survival. In the Deathlands, fate and chance are clashing with frightening force.

Here, only a few can survive and still retain hope for the future and of these, none are more determined than the exiled son of a coastal baron and his closely knit band of warrior survivalists. Imagine your worst nightmare.

Here scientists still pursue their abstract theories, oblivious to the realities of a world gone mad. In the Deathlands, the war for domination is over, but the struggle for survival continues. While many prosper on the savagery of this lawless land, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists carry the seeds of hope and courage in a daring quest to find the gateway to the future.

To hold his band of warrior survivalists together, he comes to an agonizing crossroads, torn by a debt to the past and loyalty to the present. Here Ryan finds that survival demands hard and fast choices and unexpected alliances. Amid the ruins, Ryan Cawdor leads the daring few who wage a grim battle in a quest for a better future. Hope died in the Deathlands, but the will to live goes on.

The radiation-poisoned hellhole is their home and they are determined to defend it from the predatory foreigners emerging from a gateway. Wayfarers in their blighted world, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists search for a better future in the devastated ruins of a once-proud land. In the Deathlands, everyone and everything is fair game, but only the strong survive..

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But the ultimate threat comes upon them in an unguarded moment, shocking in its scope and casting more blame on generations past. The fertile bayous teem with mutant life-forms and altered species. Off on a trek with his son, Ryan fends off the dangers from marauders and Nature's traps, but also finds signs of hope for humanity's new future..