The Survivalist #13 - Pursuit

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Kensington Publishing Corporation - Zebra Books, 1986. First Printing . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 240 Pages. August 1986 Edition. Store stamp on top page edges and very minor cover edge wear. Otherwise a tight, bright, clean book. Its a new world after the apocalypse, and John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Coveret Operations Officer, weapons specialist, and survival expert, finds himself in a strange alliance with a former Nazi in the hope of thwarting a Communist take-over of the devastated planet. When John Rourke's daughter is kidnapped by a Russian agent, Rourke follows their trail across a frozen Artic wasteland, and stumbles upon a small pocket of humanity liviing in a tropical paradise surrounded by ide and snow. The community of Icelandic descendants has flourshed in seclusion during the long years following the fiery holocaust, unaware of the firce and bloody struggle in the outside world between the forces of freedom and communist tyrany. And as the Russian strike force readies to assault the tranquil enclave, Rourke must quickly teach these people of peace the harsh realities of war, the techniques of killing to survive for freedom's sake, the hard-earned skills of The Survivalist.