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Hundra år efter tredje världskriget ligger världen i ruiner. Men snart dyker lite hopp upp vid horisonten i form av ett toppmöte mellan alla stridande parter. Målet är att ena alla mot den gemensamma fienden - ryssarna och deras allierade. Blade och hans vänner har svurit att skydda ledarna vid det stora mötet mot mördarna som kommit för att förstöra mötet och jordens framtid. Men mördarna var villiga att dö hellre än att misslyckas och snart utvecklas toppmötet till en desperat kamp om planetens framtid.

Efter tredje världskriget befinner sig en liten del av befolkningen i staden Twin Cities instängda. En grupp som heter Triad Alfa ska försöka hjälpa dem och ta dem till Hemmet. Men gruppens ledare, Blade, och hans vänner blir snart gripna och hotas med inspärrning. Diktatorn Samuel II härskar i den Civiliserade zonen där Omvandlingslägret finns. Dit skickas de som ska omdanas till goda och lydiga medborgare. Och det är dit Blade och hans vänner ska föras.

Willis Lander was once the T-Bar ranch's best bronc buster. Then came the day when a stallion as black as pitch and as mean as a rattler shattered his knee. Unable to perform the duties required of a cowboy, Willis took the only job he felt capable of handling - minding the line shack 40 miles from the ranch - and secluded himself from the pity of his peers in the Wyoming wilderness. Now, the T-Bar is being sold, leaving Willis to wonder whether the new owner will want to keep a broken bronc buster on the payroll.

One hundred years after WWIII, what was left of America was swarming with mutants, killers, and savages bent on plunging the world into eternal darkness. Isolated survivors of the holocaust, the Family was the last, best hope for the future of mankind. Blade, Hickock, and Geronimo were the fighting arm of the Family - hard men, skilled in staying alive, no matter what the cost. Now called Androxia, the city of Houston had been taken over by the Superiors, a race of androids developed by NASA before the war. Masterpieces of perfect evil, they planned to take over the world.

All Alpine's marshal, Boyd Cooper, wants is a nice retirement, not to get a posse together to track outlaws. However, when an altercation leads to the exchange of gunfire and the spilling of outlaw blood, he doesn't have much of a choice. The outlaws fear their reputation might be at stake, so they declare revenge on the tin stars of Alpine. They're mad enough to break their own no-kill rule, and Boyd Cooper knows things could end as bloody as they started.

If things are quiet in the little town of Sweetwater, Marshal Fred Hitch sees no reason to make waves. But when Tyree Johnson shows up, Fred's relaxed nature is put to the test. At 15 years old, Tyree is a tough-as-nails bounty hunter with no patience for anyone calling him "boy." He's come to apprehend a killer who escaped from Cheyenne and has been hiding in plain sight in Sweetwater. Fred must ride with Tyree and his prisoner all the way to Cheyenne. The unlikely pair has a rough trail ahead of them, and as tough as Tyree is, he has some lessons to learn about the evil men do - and how to survive it.

Washington, DC was in the tight grip of the Russians. They planned to use their base on the Potomac to launch an all-out attack on the warring states of America. But the Red Menace made one mistake - they thought Blade and the Warriors would go like lambs to the slaughter. Instead, they fought with a savagery that would drive the invaders back to the land of perpetual nuclear winter.

Wes Turner, an aging, careworn helicopter pilot in South Carolina, learns out of the blue that he is a father and grandfather. His new family has found him and embraces him, but Wes doesn't trust that love can come without a price tag. A continent away in California, Dante LaBella can't commit to his beloved girlfriend Natalie; he breaks up with her one too many times, then she refuses to take him back. In a moment of metaphoric pleading, he offers her the choice of a finger as a display of his devotion. Natalie takes him up on it, selecting the pinky of his left hand. "The love I want with you," she says, "the love I need you to understand, is forever. Nothing's forever like nine fingers." 

USA Today best-selling author David Robbins' searing Western tales capture all the thunder and lightning of Ralph Compton's extraordinary legacy. In Blood Duel, Jeeter Frost is targeted by reporters seeking insider details of the "Missouri Man-Killer." Jeeter knows he's done his share of killin', but his inability to read the so-called true accounts of his exploits makes his trigger finger burn worse than ever.

National best-selling phenomenon Ralph Compton's legacy lives on with By the Horns. A greenhorn - an Englishman, no less - arrives in Whiskey Flats to purchase one of the Bar 40's best longhorns. Owen, the ranch foreman, must escort the tenderfoot on the drive from Texas to Wyoming. But Luke Deal and his gang of ruthless cowboys have been hankerin' to get even with Owen, and this seems like the perfect time to settle an old score.

At a remote site in Minnesota, filmmaker Kurt Carpenter has built a secure compound and invited a select group of people to bunker down until the worst is over. The world into which they re-emerge is like nothing they've ever seen. At first they think they're the only ones left. But they soon find out how wrong they are. In the wasteland of what used to be America, their battle to survive is only just beginning.

New York Times best-selling author David L. Robbins has entrenched himself as the master of the World War II novel. Telling the gripping story of the 1945 rescue of allied prisoners from the Los Baños camp near Manila, Broken Jewel received tremendous critical acclaim, including starred reviews from Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews.

Världen är ödelagd efter ett fruktansvärt kärnvapenkrig. Mänsklighetens enda hopp om räddning är Genesisfröna, ett slags magiskt frö som sägs kunna väcka den döda världen till liv igen. Det ryktas om att fröna går att hitta någonstans i de mörka, helvetiska kloakerna under det ödelagda New York, en plats som är ökänd för att vara en av världens farligaste platser. Blade sätts på uppdraget, och den här gången finns det inget utrymme alls för att misslyckas. Mänsklighetens framtiden hänger på det ... David L.

Efter tredje världskriget ligger världen i ruiner. Bland vrakspillrorna försöker människor desperat överleva, men tillvaron är hårdare än någonsin och få pallar trycket. I Atlanta har en mindre civilisation vuxit fram, men den styrs av sinnessjuka adelsmän som gör allt för att göra livet outhärdligt för sina invånare. Men här och där börjar motstånd växa fram, och i spetsen har vi den orädda hjälten Blade. Atlantas plågade invånare hyser sitt hopp till hans övermänskliga förmågor ... David L.

From Beijing, American radiation scientist Lara, once a thorn in the Russian mob's side, is drawn back into the shadows of the Soviet Union on the Trans-Mongolian Express. She isn't alone. Anton, a Soviet scientist exiled for predicting Chernobyl's catastrophe, is on a quest to expose the truth. Amidst them, Timur, a Chechen giant fueled by vengeance, plots to destroy the already crumbling Soviet Union.

Global nuclear war had left the earth a stinking cesspool, polluted by radioactive fallout and poisoned by chemical toxins. Mutations abounded. Barbarians reigned. Against them all fought the Freedom Force, civilization’s last hope for survival. And when Los Angeles fell victim to a mindless incursion of savages, it was up to the Force to lift the siege. Matching violence with super violence and death with megadeath, Blade and his comrades blew into the City of Angels like devils out of hell–and L.A. would never be the same.

In the mountains of Baja California, a man they called El Diablo was raiding civilized settlements and leaving a trail of corpses in his wake. Backed by the Freedom Force, Blade stormed into the Baja to put an end to El Diablo's reign of terror, but had he finally met his match?

The Warriors of Alpha Triad face their greatest threat yet when their survivalist compound is invaded. Not by an enemy army. Not by the horrifying mutants. This time a shapeshifter is loose among the Family. Able to change into any of them at will, it is killing like there is no tomorrow.

Four men - Jess Donner, a Rebel and Southern gentleman; Steve Ellsworth, a ladies' man with a foul temper; Stu Wilkens, a Yankee; and Heck Myers, a teller of tall tales - find their friendship sorely tested by a dance-hall girl and a gang of outlaws.

Ralph Compton created a distinct brand of Western that lives on in the epic tales bearing his name. Bullet for a Bad Man features brothers Boone and Epp, who have little in common besides a God-given ability to draw steel with eyesearing speed. Happy raising cattle, Boone wonders at his brother’s lawlessness. But he never thought Epp’s ambitions would turn brother against brother—nor imagine he’d face the prospect of sending his own kin to the next world.