Long Books

The Survivalist Series

33 primary works • 33 total works

Book 1

Total War
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3.83 · 790 Ratings · 85 Reviews · published 1981 · 22 editions
For years John Rourke, ex-CIA Covert Operations Of…

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    Book 2

    The Nightmare Begins
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    3.83     · 547 Ratings · 29 Reviews · published 1981 · 18 editions
    World War III is now a bloody page in American his…

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    Book 3

    The Quest
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    3.80     · 477 Ratings · 22 Reviews · published 1981 · 19 editions
    World War III has passed and John Thomas Rourke, e…

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    Book 4

    The Doomsayer
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    3.87     · 432 Ratings · 21 Reviews · published 1981 · 24 editions
    John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Covert Operations Offic…

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    Book 5

    The Web
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    3.83     · 390 Ratings · 15 Reviews · published 2008 · 13 editions
    John Thomas Rourke, M.D., ex-CIA Cover Operations …

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    Book 6

    The Savage Horde
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    3.88     · 355 Ratings · 16 Reviews · published 1983 · 17 editions
    Survival in a hostile boat-apocalyptic world

    The si…

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    Book 7

    The Prophet
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    3.85     · 331 Ratings · 16 Reviews · published 1984 · 19 editions
    World War III was just practice for what's coming.…

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    Book 8

    The End Is Coming
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    3.84     · 326 Ratings · 17 Reviews · published 1984 · 15 editions
    World War III was only the beginning. Inevitable d…

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    Book 9

    Earth Fire
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    3.91     · 333 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 2008 · 14 editions
    The Russians, consolidating their brutal hold on A…

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    Book 10

    The Awakening
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    3.87     · 305 Ratings · 17 Reviews · published 1984 · 14 editions
    No human being could possibly escape death when th…

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    Book 11

    The Reprisal
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    3.79     · 227 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 1985 · 15 editions
    World War III and its aftermath of all-consuming f…

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    Book 12

    The Rebellion
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    3.83     · 234 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 2009 · 15 editions
    It's a new world after the apocalypse, and John Th…

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    Book 13

    Pursuit
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    3.81     · 202 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 1986 · 10 editions
    When John Rourke's daughter is kidnapped by a Russ…

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    Book 14

    The Terror
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    3.86     · 200 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2008 · 12 editions
    IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY, WOULD JOHN T…

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    Book 15

    Overlord
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    3.78     · 176 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 1987 · 11 editions
    It's a perilous world after the fiery apocalypse o…

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    Book 16

    The Arsenal
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    3.86     · 147 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1988 · 13 editions
    Marshal Vladmir Karamatsov is dead, the victim of …

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    Book 17

    The Ordeal
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    3.82     · 164 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2013 · 10 editions
    As the Soviet army advances on the few areas of ci…

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    Book 18

    The Struggle
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    3.79     · 136 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1989 · 11 editions
    John Thomas Rourke, an ex-CIA agent, learns that C…

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    Book 19

    Final Rain
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    3.81     · 154 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 1989 · 11 editions
    John Thomas Rourke, an ex-CIA agent, leads interna…

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    Book 20

    Firestorm
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    3.86     · 145 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 1990 · 9 editions
    When John Rourke receives reports of a new Soviet …

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    Book 21

    To End All War
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    3.84     · 138 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1990 · 10 editions
    World War III has reduced America's purpled mounta…

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    Book 22

    Brutal Conquest
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    3.91     · 106 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2008 · 7 editions
    World War III left America a toxic wasteland, its …

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    Book 23

    Call to Battle
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    3.92     · 106 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2008 · 10 editions
    In a postnuclear America, Rourke learns of a secre…

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    Book 24

    Blood Assassins
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    3.95     · 96 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1992 · 12 editions
    With America reduced to a landscape of blasted rub…

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    Book 25

    War Mountain
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    3.95     · 106 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2008 · 8 editions
    IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY-WOULD JOHN TH…

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    Book 26

    Countdown
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    4.00     · 88 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1993 · 9 editions
    In order to save the free world from dangerous sei…

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    Book 27

    Death Watch
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    3.85     · 88 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1993 · 9 editions
    In the years following World War III, the Nazis pr…

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    Book 28

    Mid-Wake
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    3.88     · 134 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 1988 · 8 editions
    John Rourke, CIA-trained weapons and survival expe…

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    Book 29

    The Legend
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    4.01     · 70 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1991 · 7 editions
    Book by Jerry Ahern

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    Book 30

    The Inheritors of Earth
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    3.94     · 34 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2013 · 6 editions
    John Thomas Rourke's world is now roughly one-thir…

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    Book 31

    Earth Shine
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    3.95     · 22 Ratings · published 2014 · 8 editions
    The Rourke saga continues now with Michael Rourke …

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    Book 32

    The Quisling Covenant
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    3.73     · 22 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2014 · 6 editions
    The attacks came suddenly and savagely. Four of Ro…

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    Book 33

    Deep Star
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    3.87     · 15 Ratings · 3 editions
    Neo-Nazis attack New Germany Mount Rushmore's Hall…

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