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Deathlands #74
Strontium Swamp
ETERNAL FIRE
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. Twenty-second-century America may not be much worth fighting for, but Ryan Cawdor and his warrior survivalists push on, clinging to the deep wellspring of human hope that somewhere in the raw, violent new frontier of a rad-blasted tomorrow is someplace they can call home.
SHADOW MONSTERS
Weary, sick and hungry, the group barely survives a trek through the torturous deserts of the Southwest which leads into the bayous of what was once Louisiana, a place one of their own first called home. The eerie, lifeless silence of the swamps warns of trouble ahead. But nothing can prepare them for Dr. Jean, a madman who has harnessed pre-Dark tech to create an army of crazed zombies marching toward his own twisted vision of Deathlands domination.
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. Twenty-second-century America may not be much worth fighting for, but Ryan Cawdor and his warrior survivalists push on, clinging to the deep wellspring of human hope that somewhere in the raw, violent new frontier of a rad-blasted tomorrow is someplace they can call home.
SHADOW MONSTERS
Weary, sick and hungry, the group barely survives a trek through the torturous deserts of the Southwest which leads into the bayous of what was once Louisiana, a place one of their own first called home. The eerie, lifeless silence of the swamps warns of trouble ahead. But nothing can prepare them for Dr. Jean, a madman who has harnessed pre-Dark tech to create an army of crazed zombies marching toward his own twisted vision of Deathlands domination.
352 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 13, 2006
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December 7, 2023
Possibly the worst book I've read in this series so far. Andy Boot is the weakest author working under the name James Axler, and sadly there's still 7 more written by him left in the series. Makes a man consider taking the last train west...
March 5, 2014
Written in 2006.
Ryan Cawdor, J.B. Dix (John Barrymore), Krysty Wroth, Jak Lauren (the one-eyed albino) , Doctor Theophilus Tanner (Doc., the old one of the group), and Mildred Wyeth, do battle in Florida in 2001 against a world decimated by some nuclear holocaust.
To page 162, the above group fights and defeats various newly-modified denizens of the world in each chapter. Admittedly, it IS involving, at least for a couple three chapters. About the time I gave up, they came upon West Lowellton, on the edge of Lafayette. This is a small, primitive town, whose denizens cannot stop infighting long enough to be productive, much to Jak's disgust.
There is a guy, Dr. Jean, who has a nearby town, which seems successful, but he is a despotic dictator, who rules through drugs, among other things. The only one who seems halfway intelligent is Jak, or maybe Doc. There is a battle . . .
Jak 'n them leave.
Ryan Cawdor, J.B. Dix (John Barrymore), Krysty Wroth, Jak Lauren (the one-eyed albino) , Doctor Theophilus Tanner (Doc., the old one of the group), and Mildred Wyeth, do battle in Florida in 2001 against a world decimated by some nuclear holocaust.
To page 162, the above group fights and defeats various newly-modified denizens of the world in each chapter. Admittedly, it IS involving, at least for a couple three chapters. About the time I gave up, they came upon West Lowellton, on the edge of Lafayette. This is a small, primitive town, whose denizens cannot stop infighting long enough to be productive, much to Jak's disgust.
There is a guy, Dr. Jean, who has a nearby town, which seems successful, but he is a despotic dictator, who rules through drugs, among other things. The only one who seems halfway intelligent is Jak, or maybe Doc. There is a battle . . .
Jak 'n them leave.
January 19, 2013
One of the worst books I've ever read. Whoever wrote it apparently confuses two of the characters at one point. Really, really bad.
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