Jerry Ahern

Jerry Ahern, born Jerome Morrell Aheern , had a voice that could carry across a football field. He was well spoken and loved to take charge which was a trait that served him well in high school, college, the Reserve Officer Training Corps as well as at public speaking engagements throughout his life. He would stand at the podium, look straight ahead and wait either until we had quieted down on our own or he suggested in his inimitable way, that it might be a good thing to do. Then he would read the announcements in a clear, loud voice. Trivial announcements became high drama.

Jerry was president of Detonics USA from 2006 to 2007.

Jerry is perhaps most well known for his post apocalyptic Survivalist series featuring John Thomas Rourke but he also collaborated with his wife Sharon, most notably the Takers series.

Being a firearms expert, he also wrote on this topic.

In his latter years Ahern became a non-fiction writer for Michael Banes’s website.

Jerry died of cancer on July 24 2012.

Lived: 1946 - 2012

Alias: Axel Kilgore

Pursuit

When John Rourke’s daughter is kidnapped by a Russian agent, Rourke follows their trail across a frozen Arctic wasteland and stumbles upon a small pocket of humanity living in a tropical paradise surrounded by ice and snow. The community of Icelandic descendants has flourished in seclusion during the long years following the fiery holocaust, unaware(…)

The Rebellion

It’s a new world after the apocalypse, and John Thomas Rourkeex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist, and survival expertfinds himself in a strange alliance with a former Nazi in the hope of thrwarting a Communist take-over of the devastated planet. Rourke isn’t sure if he can trust his new ally, but to save the Eden(…)

Total War

This book is the first in the Survivalist series featuring the hero, John Thomas Rourke. This is the story of the ultimate war, the final nuclear holocaust and the unrelenting quest of John Thomas Rourke as he begins his search across war-ravaged America, following every haunting clue, however fragmentary, to locate his missing family.

The Nightmare Begins

World War III is now a bloody page in American history. With nuclear holocaust killing more than a quarter-billion people worldwide and the United States just a memory, John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Cover Operations Officer, weapons expert, and survival authority is enduring the ultimate test. Soviet Occupation Forces have landed and must begin the “pacification”(…)

The Quest

World War III has passed and John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Cover Operations Officer, weapons expert, and survival authority has at last reached his home only to find that his wife and two children have fled for their lives. With the knowledge that his family has survived the nuclear holocaust, Rourke, with the aid of young(…)

The Doomsayer

John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Cover Operations Officer, weapons expert, and survival authority, is pursuing the trail of his wife and children from whom he was separated when World War III began. As he sets out from his retreat, he meets a beautiful woman scientist, who has learned that the nuclear bombing on the Night of(…)

The Web

John Thomas Rourke, M.D., ex-CIA Cover Operations Officer, weapons expert, and survival authority, has accomplished one of his goals – he’s helped his young friend Paul Rubenstein locate his parents. Now, Rourke’s search for his own family must continue, hampered by severe storms raging along the Eastern Seaboard caused by the earthquakes which destroyed Florida.(…)

The Savage Horde

The sight of the sunken remains of San Francisco is a grisly reminder of the Night of the War. The horde of half dressed savages waiting on the shore, a deadly example of the madness of this brutal post holocaust world. Surrounded now by murderous madmen and threatened by a mysterious officer who has been(…)

The Prophet

In post apocalypse America, John Rourke, CIA trained weapons and survival expert, comes up against the Wildmen. A blood-crazed gang whose objective is the missiles in their silos that survived the Night of War. A prize that he knows he must stop them winning.

The Takers

Josh Culhane, two-fisted adventurer who’ll go anywhere, do anything, teams up with the sexy scholar Mary Mulrooney in breathtaking pursuit of the satanic Steiglitz and his slinky, psychotic daughter. The boldhearted couple races to grab a power so great that world leaders would risk death to get it. Culhane and Mulrooney battle halfway across the(…)

The End is Coming

World War III was only the beginning. Inevitable death now awaits every soul who lived through the holocaust as the earth’s atmosphere is about to explode into a searing blaze of fire. But one man refuses to die, refuses to accept the horror: John Thomas Rourke, the ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons expert and survival(…)

Earth Fire

The Russians, consolidating their brutal hold on America after the bloody horror of World War III, are planning an act so vicious that mankind, itself, may never recover from the blow. John Thomas Rourke, the ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons expert, and survival authority is the only one with a prayer of stopping them. But(…)

The Awakening

No human being could possibly escape death when the earth’s atmosphere explodes into a blazing wave of global fire. But John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist, and survival expert would not be denied another chance at life. His family and friends are alive and about the enter a cruel, desolate new world.(…)

The Reprisal

World War III and its aftermath of all-consuming fire left civilization on the brink of extinction. But John Thomas Rourke, the ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist, and survival expert still lives, fighting the elements and the odds. And those odds have never been more heavily stacked against Rourke than when he finds his son(…)

River of Gold

Josh Culhane and Mary Mulrooney launch an incredible journey into the Brazilian rain forest. Far upriver, the jungle yields its deepest secret – the lost city of the Amazon warrior-women. But this uncharted world of piranha-infested waters and tribal head-hunters conceals an even darker secret, so sinister it challenges the furthest reaches of the mind…

Summon the Demon

Set in Charleston, South Carolina, where voodoo is still a powerful force in the lives of the locals, Josh Culhane and Mary Frances Mulrooney must stop a voodoo-inspired plot to set off a nuclear attack by an out-of-control submarine. The resulting blast would destroy the whole southern half of the East Coast, and with the(…)

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