Book Preview With a snap as loud as a gunshot, the rope broke “Rona!” Dean Cawdor yelled, as the rushing water of the nameless river yanked him off the drowning horse to send him tumbling downstream. Sharona screamed his name somewhere distant, but the crashing waves of the white-water river overwhelmed the sound until there … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html /* /*]] */ d14 “Mutie ants!” Ryan yelled. “Our only hope is the tree.” The horrifying creatures were more than a foot long, and their mandibles were huge, disproportionate even to their grotesquely mutated size. Longer than a man’s finger, they clicked together in a deafening … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html /* /*]] */ Axler,_James_-_DeathLands_9_Red_Equinox The door to the hut burst open, sending Ryan tumbling across the floor A shaft of light pierced the gloom as the door flew off its hinges, but the pale rectangle was swiftly blotted out. The man who filled the doorway stood … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html /* /*]] */ d13 Ryan’s eye took in a scene from a heart-stopping nightmare. The huge mutie rattlesnake was well over twenty feet long, its body as thick as the thigh of a grown man. The setting sun glinted off a metal strip that circled the … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html /* /*]] */ /* /*]] */ /* /*]] */ d12 The wind had become a full-blown gale, howling like a cemetery banshee Ryan paused, blinking the ocean spray out of his eye, and stared upward. He could see only a few feet ahead, but he made … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html /* /*]] */ Dland6a A lone mutie rushed toward them, lashing out with the jagged blade of his knife. Jak spun like a dervish, trying to dodge the attack, but the creature had the advantage of surprise. The crude knife slashed upward, and Ryan, a little … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html Ryan noticed an unnatural flurry of movement among the rancid weeds that crowded down to the brink of the water, now only fifty paces from the raft. “Push it away,” he called urgently, taking one of the branches himself and poling off. “What d’you see?” Krysty … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html /* /*]] */ /* /*]] */ /* /*]] */ d11 It was unlike anyplace they had ever known. Krysty lay on her back, staring around her, relaxing on a soft couch of deep green moss. “What you said, Doc, about how it used to be was … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html /* /*]] */ d10 Ryan Cawdor never heard the swampies One moment he was up and walking; the next he was rolling over on hands and knees, the G-12 pulled from his grip, someone’s arm around his throat, another attacker hanging on his waist, kicking at … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html In the world of Deathlands There were, of course, survivors… The world was not destroyed—just a way of life. The global population was cut down to perhaps one-fifth of what it had been. The ecosystems were utterly disrupted. The climate was transformed. In what had once … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html There were, of course, survivors. The world was not destroyed—just a way of life. The global population was cut down to perhaps one-fifth of what it had been. The ecosystems were utterly disrupted. The climate was transformed. In what had once beenNorth America , the survivors … Read more