Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

City of Dark [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Colleen Delany, Ter...

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Having narrowly escaped with their lives from the redoubt near Cornerstone, the Deathlands survivors known as the Companions arrive via mat-trans at a destination they presume to be North Dakota, if the mysterious codes given them while in Cornerstone are accurate. That assumption is soon put in doubt as they discover a devastated city covered... Read more

Siren Song [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, D...

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Crawling from the wreckage of Armageddon, humanity endures, mutated and forever altered. Gone are the comforts of civilization, replaced by a bloodlust to survive. Deathlands is a tortured landscape where peace and hope struggle to take root. Still, Ryan Cawdor and his band push onward, seeking a place to call home.
If any kind of utopia exists... Read more

Desolation Angels [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, D...

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A hundred years after the nukecaust, the tortured landscape of post-apocalyptic America offers a brutal fight for survival. Yet tech secrets lie hidden, useful to those brave and strong enough to believe that hope can carry them toward ever-elusive peace.
Violent gangs, a corrupt mayor and a heavily armed police force are the hallmarks of former... Read more

Blood Red Tide [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In a nuclear wasteland where death and destruction are the norm, Ryan Cawdor and his fellow survivors seek out refuge while looking to one another for protection. Civilization no longer exists in the barren Deathlands. There is only the will to survive and the dim hope of a promised land.
Taken captive on a ship in the former Caribbean, Ryan... Read more

Red Holocaust [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

But the future in a world shrouded in the radioactive red dust clouds of a generation-old global nuclear war depends on finding hidden caches of food, weapons and technology—the legacy of a preholocaust society—stashed in lonely outposts known as redoubts.
When Ryan Cawdor discovers a redoubt in the bitter freakish wasteland that now passes for... Read more

Eden's Twilight [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Crawling out of the ruins of a nuke-shattered America, a new reality shapes an unpredictable terrain of human resilience and unabated savagery. Born and bred in Deathlands, Ryan Cawdor has seen the pulsing of its dark heart. And he understands more than most that tomorrow is certain to arrive. But to see it means surviving today—any way he... Read more

Countdown [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Jerry Ahern

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Eric Messner, Na...

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The final countdown has begun for John Rourke, and the fate of the entire world hangs in the balance. As the all the pieces for the endgame are put into place, Rourke and his hated enemy, Dietrich Zimmer, will do battle on an epic scale. But just as John Rourke finally manages to back his rival into a corner, an attack from an unforeseen enemy... Read more

Firestorm [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Jerry Ahern

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Mort Shelby, Dyl...

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In a world where evil will not die, Nazis dream of world domination. Soviet land forces count on their reborn particle beam weapons to gain the advantage, while their undersea brethren weigh the nuclear option; an option that will leave the planet a desolate rock in space. Albert Einstein once observed, "Only two things are infinite, the... Read more

War Mountain [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Jerry Ahern

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Eric Messner, Na...

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

John Thomas Rourke has learned that his wife is alive, and now he must risk everything to save her. But the Diabolical Dietrich Zimmer remains one step ahead of him as always. This time, however, Rourke will throw aside his ideals of fair fight and launch an attack that will make his worshipers question his role as God among men. With his family... Read more

Alpha Wave [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the post-apocalyptic world of Deathlands, the past and its way of life are as obsolete as myth. Now the days are filled with death, violence and little promise. Still, the human spirit endures and a group of intrepid warrior survivalists dare to believe that out there, something better is on offer. If they live long enough to find it.
Across... Read more

Hell Road Warriors [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The human will to survive has sharpened to a knife edge after a century of post-nuclear madness. In a lawless land where firepower and savagery rule, power lies with the barons and coldhearts who wield control through terror. Against all odds, a courageous few still fight for something better to live by -- honor, decency and hope.
Emerging... Read more

Palaces of Light [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Remnants of America's past are littered across the postapocalyptic landscape, but little remains of the preDark ideals of law and order. Survival is a blood quest and lethal force the means to power. Still, a handful retains their humanity among the cold hearts and in a world where nothing lasts forever, hope is a commodity as precious as... Read more

Haven's Blight [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The future rose from the ashes of nuke-scorched America with a vengeance. The unchecked wrath of Deathlands pits Ryan Cawdor and his companions against long odds. But their skill as survivors, strategists and warriors is unmatched and they've held on to something more precious than life: their humanity. They nurture the hope that somewhere,... Read more

Call To Battle [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Jerry Ahern

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Eric Messner, Na...

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In a postnuclear America, John Rourke learns of a secret attack by neo-fascist commandos that could cripple the new free world. With the fate of Hawaii in the balance, he marshals his SEAL and TAC teams for a counterattack. But when the evil of Nazism fights its way back from the brink of destruction, John Rourke will find himself pushed to the... Read more

Brutal Conquest [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Jerry Ahern

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Mort Shelby, Nan...

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Civil Icon John Rourke must come to terms with his new status as a god among men. He is the ever reluctant hero of legend, and now must battle a completely new retinue of villains in the futuristic new world. Along with the rest of the Rourke family, he will fight to gain supremacy over the one man who has the ability to save Sarah Rourke's life. Read more

Way of the Wolf [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, D...

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bleak nightmare of the nuclear winter has abated, but the Earth is scarred, its ecosystems poisoned, many of its life forms mutated and struggling for existence. Here, in the torn remnants of America, Ryan Cawdor and his warrior survivalists stake their claim as the inheritors of Deathlands, their unforgiving world.

Looking for respite after... Read more

The Arsenal [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Jerry Ahern

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Mort Shelby, Nan...

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Marshal Vladmir Karamatsov is dead, the victim of the fierce undersea battle for Mid-Wake. But with his arch enemy gone, John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer and survival authority, discovers a terrifying new threat looming on the eastern horizon.
On an expedition to secure peaceful relations with the Far East, Rourke's son... Read more

The Ordeal [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Jerry Ahern

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Mort Shelby, Mic...

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Humanity nearly killed itself once. Can John Rourke stop it from succeeding in a second try? If the Chinese worshipers of the Sun God have their way, the world will be cleansed in the fire of a second nuclear holocaust. For every being on the planet, there is no escape. Read more

Trade War [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, C...

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ryan Cawdor awakens from a mat-trans jump to inexplicably find himself in a version of his past (just after the events of Deathlands 45: Starfall). Ryan's son Dean is back, Krysty isn't pregnant yet and Ryan, who is the only one who feels the pull of the timeline split, is trying to keep it together.
The companions are in immediate need of... Read more

Final Rain [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Jerry Ahern

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Mort Shelby, M.B...

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

John Thomas Rourke's remarkable survival skills enabled him to emerge unscathed from the nuclear devastation of W.W. III. But terrifying new storm clouds loom over the eastern horizon—as the ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer and weapons expert takes command of his battered nation's broadening air and land war against the brutal Soviet foe.
Russian... Read more

Mid-Wake (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Jerry Ahern

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Mort Shelby, Tho...

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On a planet where all is not what it seems, Earth's largest space station is home to America's Navy; a society born of science strives to find it's place in war; and 500 year old history comes to blazing life. John, Michael and Annie Rourke, Paul Rubenstein and Natalia Anastasia Tiemerovna battle ancient foes even as they long for a world... Read more

Nightmare Passage [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, James Lewis, Collee...

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Life is precarious in post-apocalyptic America, threatened by the toxic environment and the return to savagery. Born into this bleak reality, Ryan Cawdor roams the hell trails of Deathlands with his band of warrior survivalists. All they know is to endure and seize whatever chance they get for a better tomorrow.

In the sands of California's... Read more

The Struggle [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Jerry Ahern

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Mort Shelby, Dyl...

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In an effort to rule 21st Century Earth, Vladmir Karamatsov and his followers used the nuclear option, nearly destroying Earth. Five centuries later, Karamatov's successors battle to use the same weapons and newer "ultimate" weapons in pursuit of 25th Century world "peace." From Pacific islands to the frozen foothills of the Himalaya's, John... Read more

Skydark [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, N...

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It's now generations after the firestorm that nearly consumed the earth, but the survivors haven't yet finished paying for the sins of the fathers. All of life suffered and of those that survived, not all survived well. This cradle of life is now home to forms fallen far from their human inheritance.

Fear spreads like wildfire through the... Read more