Trapped in the Ashes: In the Ashes of Nuclear Devastation, a Small Army of Super-Warriors Keeps the Bold Dream of Freedom Alive!

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Pinnacle Books, Jul 4, 1998 - Fiction - 317 pages
"History might show us to be the only force standing between total collapse and anarchy. . .Whatever comes our way, we'll handle it. We always have, we always will."
--Ben Raines
Stand And Deliver
Trapped in the smoking rubble of what was once New York City, Ben Raines and his ragged band of followers are up against their biggest challenge. The terrorist Khasmin is marching north to join the cannibalistic Night People, with the final annihilation of Ben's hold-out army as their goal. Defeat seems a certainty. But Ben Raines has made some hard decisions in the face of overwhelming odds before.
Now, he must gather what forces he has to strike one hard, crushing blow. . .or American will die--and with it the nation's last hope of freedom.
 

Contents

Section 1
10
Section 2
19
Section 3
27
Section 4
35
Section 5
78
Section 6
104
Section 7
111
Section 8
119
Section 15
220
Section 16
244
Section 17
252
Section 18
260
Section 19
268
Section 20
275
Section 21
282
Section 22
289

Section 9
128
Section 10
136
Section 11
147
Section 12
156
Section 13
163
Section 14
171
Section 23
296
Section 24
304
Section 25
311
Section 26
316
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About the author (1998)

William W. Johnstone was born in Southern Missouri on October 28, 1938. He quit school when he was fifteen to join a carnival, but went back and finished high school in 1957. He worked as a deputy sheriff, spent time in the army, and then went into radio broadcasting, where he worked for sixteen years. He started writing in 1970, but was his first book, The Devil's Kiss, was not published until late 1979. He wrote over 200 books during his lifetime including the Ashes series, Code Name series, Mountain Man series, The First Mountain Man series, and Eagles series. Two of his books, Eagle Down and Dagger, were written under the pen name of William Mason. He died on February 8, 2004 at the age of 65.

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