Axler, James - Deathlands 41 - Freedom Lost

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"I've got a mental picture of the roof, lover, and it's red."

"What's she talking about, Cawdor?" the sec leader demanded angrily.

"Krysty can 'see' things, Rollins. I'd say it's about to hit the fan."

"Shut her up. We don't have time for crazy mutie talk."

The small radio on Rollins's gun belt squawked, the shrill tone adding to the

mounting tension between the two men. He snatched up the comm unit and

thumbed the send button. "What?"

"This is Jameson, sir, from the west wing."

"I've got problems of my own, Jameson. Make it quick."

"The stickies, sir. The bastards are coming at us from all sides. One dropped a

load of napalm onto the roof. We're boxed in. What are we going to do?"

All eyes turned toward the red flames, shooting into the sky.

Freedom Lost

#41 in the Deathland series

James Axler

A GOLD EAGLE BOOK FROM WORLDWIDE

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TORONTO • NEW YORK • LONDON AMSTERDAM • PARIS • SYDNEY •

HAMBURG • STOCKHOLM • ATHENS • TOKYO • MILAN • MADRID •

WARSAW • BUDAPEST • AUCKLAND

If you purchased this book without a cover you should be aware that this book is

stolen property. It was reported as "unsold and destroyed" to the publisher, and

neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this "stripped

book."

Back before predark, during the even darker days of my stint at North Surry High

School, Lowanda Shaw Badgett taught me a few things about writing and about

being a professional. This one's for her, and for her father, James Irving Shaw, a

man I recently was delighted to discover has been a fan of the Deathlands series

since the beginning. I hope these novels keep entertaining him for a long time to

come.

First edition April 1998

ISBN 0-373-62541-3

FREEDOM LOST

this work in whole or in part in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other

means, now known or hereafter invented, including xerography, photocopying and

recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, is forbidden without

the written permission of the publisher, Worldwide Library, 225 Duncan Mill

Road, Don Mills, Ontario, Canada M3B 3K9.

All characters in this book have no existence outside the imagination of the author

and have no relation whatsoever to anyone bearing the same name or names. They

are not even distantly inspired by any individual known or unknown to the author,

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and all incidents are pure invention.

® and TM are trademarks of the publisher. Trademarks indicated with ® are

registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the Canadian Trade

Marks Office and in other countries.

Printed in U.S.A.

Now that the Atomic Age has apparently passed, future historians may well coin

this the Shopping Center Age, the United States of the Mall, the New Mall-en-

nium. Love them or loathe them, malls are a major economic force and a modern

fact of life, a powerfully pervasive—and privately controlled—cultural

phenomenon. These placeless, misplaced Main Streets are no longer part of the

community, someone once said, they are the community.

—Excerpt from The Mall-aise of America

by Jeff Huebner,

THE DEATHLANDS SAGA

This world is their legacy, a world born in the violent nuclear spasm of 2001 that

was the bitter outcome of a struggle for global dominance.

There is no real escape from this shockscape where life always hangs in the

balance, vulnerable to newly demonic nature, barbarism, lawlessness.

But they are the warrior survivalists, and they endure—in the way of the lion, the

hawk and the tiger, true to nature's heart despite its ruination.

Ryan Cawdor: The privileged son of an East Coast baron. Acquainted with

betrayal from a tender age, he is a master of the hard realities.

Krysty Wroth: Harmony ville's own Titian-haired beauty, a woman with the

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strength of tempered steel. Her premonitions and Gaia powers have been fostered

by her Mother Sonja.

J. B. Dix, the Armorer: Weapons master and Ryan's close ally, he, too, honed his

skills traversing the Deathlands with the legendary Trader.

Doctor Theophilus Tanner: Torn from his family and a gentler life in 1896, Doc

has been thrown into a future he couldn't have imagined.

Dr. Mildred Wyeth: Her father was killed by the Ku Klux Klan, but her fate is

not much lighter. Restored from predark cryogenic suspension, she brings

twentieth-century healing skills to a nightmare.

Jak Lauren: A true child of the wastelands, reared on adversity, loss and danger,

the albino teenager is a fierce fighter and loyal friend.

Dean Cawdor: Ryan's young son by Sharona accepts the only world he knows,

and yet he is the seedling bearing the promise of tomorrow.

In a world where all was lost, they are humanity's last hope…

Prologue

The Past

The figures were locked in a two-step, supporting each other as they weaved

across the arid landscape. Their feet stumbled, uncertain of the next step as they

walked clumsily over the uneven terrain. Above their heads, the wild sky was a

deep, striking blue, without a single cloud hanging in place to battle back the hot

sunlight.

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There was an absence of any kind of hill, or mountain or cover—just flat, broken

highway—six lanes of highway—as far ahead as the eye could see.

Pieces of broken pavement and scraps of long-dead automobiles littering the

roadway kept tripping up the two men—that, and the state of near exhaustion they

barely endured as they picked their way northward along the abandoned stretch of

road.

Once, the highway had been known as Interstate 77. Now it was just another road,

one of thousands that still crisscrossed the former United States of America,

unmaintained and forgotten.

Far behind them, long hot miles back down the interstate and directly off an exit

ramp near the remains of a single ruined overpass, were the burned and crumbling

remains of the play palace and amusement park that had been known to many as

Wille ville. But it had an earlier incarnation meaningful to good Christian soldiers,

as Freedom City, U.S.A.

Before the darkness fell across the world, the site had been a queer mix of Bible-

thumping religion and overblown Vegas-style entertainment. The crown jewel of

the attraction was a sparkling, modern, twenty-four-story hotel with all of the

amenities, including a private, hidden casino in the basement for those "very

special" guests of the Lord.

Freedom City U.S.A. was also equipped with an amusement park for children, a

fully functioning television studio with satellite hookup and live feed, a radio

station broadcasting on both AM and FM wavebands, private quarters for the staff

and employees, and an eighteen hole golf course with special tee off spots for

senior citizens.

All of these diversions were offered for free to select members of the church

group who sponsored the dream of the compound's owner and president. The

master of Freedom City was a "born-again" showman, promoting his land of fun

through publishing and radio, but primarily via cable TV with regular appeals for

money to help do the Lord's work.

He had taken the title of televangelist, one of those new words that sprung into

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