Apocalyptic & Dystopian audiobooks

Mid-Wake (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Jerry Ahern

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Thomas Penny, Er...

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Five centuries after nuclear war laid waste to the land, the future of humankind may rest with the fishes. John Rourke, Natalia Anastasia Tiemerovna and a band of Marines battle tyranny beneath the sea to defend liberty and justice under the stars. Read more

Sins of Honor [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

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

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The survivors of postnuclear America struggle against the free fall into anarchy and barbarism. Hot lead keeps people sharp, but it's the fire within that keeps them alive. Ryan Cawdor and his band roam Deathlands searching for somewhere to call home. Until then, it's survival at all cost.
New Hampshire is rich with big game, more than enough to... Read more

Plague Lords [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Thomas Penny, Teren...

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After a century of chaos following the nukes, Deathlands is forming pockets of civilization, aided by pre-dark stockpiles of weapons, fuel and pieces of 21st-century knowledge. But these troves are hard to come by and survival remains a blood quest. For Ryan Cawdor and his warrior survivalists, luck is sparse, chances slimmer, yet hope drives... Read more

Storm Breakers [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

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

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In post-apocalyptic Deathlands, America the beautiful has been ravaged by two centuries of nuclear fallout. Here, the American dream boils down to one thing: survival. Ryan Cawdor and his fellow warriors seize each day, armed and ready to hold on to the only life they've got. Despite the odds, they believe in something better, someplace they can... Read more

Apocalypse Unborn [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

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

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Reborn primeval in the fires of thermonuclear hell, America's aftermath is one of manifest evil, savage endurance and lingering hope. Traversing the lawless continent on a journey without destination, Ryan Cawdor seeks humanity in an inhuman world. In the Deathlands, life is cheap, death is free and survival demands the highest price of... Read more

The Terror [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Jerry Ahern

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

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vladmir Karamatsov is a man possessed who demands the world from God. "My hour will come, inevitably. You can't stop me, even if you exist. And he can't stop me. John Rourke cannot stop me! He cannot stop me! John Rourke cannot stop me!"
In this world growing more crowded and perilous by the day, John Rourke must use every means at his command... Read more

The Mars Arena [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

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

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The nuclear firestorms had swept away the hatreds and the power struggles that had dominated the Earth for decades. But no hoped-for better reality was born in that blighted landscape. In a lawless and maddened world, blood and violence remained a means to survival—and power.

In the harsh territory near what used to be the Western badlands, Ryan... Read more

Nemesis [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

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

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Burying the past in a nuclear cull, Deathlands spares no one from its punishing assault. In this grim new reality, there's little to live-or die-for, except the possibility of unlocking the mysteries of the past. Ryan Cawdor and his group of fellow survivors scour the perilous land for sanctuary in a world where nothing is guaranteed but death.... Read more

No Man's Land [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

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

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

There's little to remember about life before the Big Nuke, but there's plenty to scavenge in the tainted wreckage of the post-apocalyptic frontier. The barbaric code of survival of the fittest, meanest or dirtiest makes for hard living and easy death. But Ryan Cawdor and his friends have stayed alive by holding on to their humanity-playing... Read more

American Ultimatum [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Ryder Stacy

Narrated by: A Full Cast, James Konicek, David Coyne, Ken Ja...

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For nearly a century, a wasted and savaged America has struggled to rise from the radioactive ashes of a Russian thermonuclear sneak attack. And one man has led the desperate fight to free a once-great nation from the enslaving clutches of the brutal Red Army invaders. He is Ted Rockson—the Doomsday Warrior.
Killov, the insane leader of the KGB,... Read more

The End Is Coming [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Jerry Ahern

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

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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 the explode into a searching 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 authority.... Read more

America's Final Defense [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Ryder Stacy

Narrated by: A Full Cast, James Konicek, David Coyne, Terenc...

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A century after Russia's surprise thermonuclear first strike, America struggles to survive as a radioactive wasteland. Locked in a cruel yoke of oppression by its Soviet dictators, the United States has only one chance to regain her past glory: Ted Rockson, the Doomsday Warrior and his high-tech guerilla army of Freefighters—the brave shock... Read more

Thunder Road [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

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

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A century after the nukecaust, humanity adheres to the most basic laws of survival: live or die trying. For most, the concepts of law and order remain buried in the past.
Enter the Thunder Rider....
Using a rigid code of honor learned from pre-nukecaust fantasies and westerns, Thunder Rider is a self-styled superhero, serving up mass murder in a... Read more

Overlord [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Jerry Ahern

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Nanette Savard, ...

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It's a perilous world after the fiery apocalypse of World War III, and John Thomas Rourke—ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist, and survival expert—pursues his arch-enemy Vladmir Karamatsov into the strife-torn, blackened wilderness of mainland China and a rendezvous with certain death. Karamatsov, bent on the destruction of the... Read more

Dark Fathoms [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

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

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

No place on Earth escaped the nuclear Armageddon that spawned the hellscape known as Deathlands. In a ravaged world where violence and lawlessness rule, a rare breed of hero has emerged. Ryan Cawdor is a lethal fighter who lives by a code of honor and fair play, and that has made him a legend....
Miles beneath the ocean's surface, a decaying... Read more

Chrono Spasm [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

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

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Remnants of humanity have managed to regroup after a global nuclear showdown that decimated the planet. But life in Deathlands is a far cry from actual living. And the survivors must believe they'll find something better, because surrendering to the inhospitable forces of a nuked world means giving in to death. Or worse.
Fear and human depravity... Read more

Baptism of Rage [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

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

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The end of the world arrived in a nuclear rush, forging the agonized remains of past and present into a new reality known as Deathlands. Now life is a simple series of rules of survival, where having is better than not having--and anything is worth killing for. But in a world that has seemingly turned against mankind, the possibility of miracles... Read more

Death Watch [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Jerry Ahern

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

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

John Rourke has battle for over 600 hundred years, fighting the enemy of humanity in its many forms. But this, his final battle, will test the very makings of his soul. His enemy, Deitrich Zimmer, has conquered the very workings of life itself, capturing the prize of immortality. Now, he threatens to unleash his final Doomsday plot, which will... Read more

Desert Kings [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

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

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

More than a century past the fiery dawn of post-nuclear America, Ryan Cawdor and his companions journey across a land lost yet reborn. Though hope lingers under the blood and the dust, looking blindly toward the future is the surest way to get killed. Staying hard and cold for today is the only way to survive...
Traversing the terrain of Utah,... Read more

The Reprisal [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Jerry Ahern

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

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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... Read more

Downrigger Drift [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

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

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The nuclear cataclysm that maimed America altered the rules of existence. The new reality guarantees a grim battle for survival, but the higher human instinct to exist in peace and good will lives on. Legends endure and Ryan Cawdor is a warrior of his time. When the good fight needs to be won, Ryan and his band take a stand.
In the nuke-altered... Read more

Tainted Cascade [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

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

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The blighted aftermath of a global nuclear showdown, Deathlands exacts a blood price. The living pay it; the dead don't care. For one legendary band of warriors, this barbaric new world holds a chance for redemption: the secrets of the past. They roam a disfigured America, searching for pre-dark tech...seeking the path to a future worth living.... Read more

Earth Fire [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Jerry Ahern

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

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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 Reds... Read more

Watersleep [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: James Axler

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, David Coyne, Terenc...

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the altered reality of the Deathlands, America's coastal waters haven't escaped the ravages of the nukecaust, but the awesome power of the oceans still rules here. It's a power that will let Ryan Cawdor, first among post-holocaust survivors, ride the crest of victory—or consign his woman to the raging depths.

Emerging from a gateway on the... Read more