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"Dark night, there's a land tank over there!"

"Alone?" Ryan demanded pointedly.

"No, wait, there's two of 'em! Big as anything I've ever seen. Some smaller wags,

too. Couldn't get a good look."

"Is the war wag an APC?" Krysty asked, squinting to try to see past the

conflagration.

"Converted trucks," J.B. said, lowering the longeyes. "Machine gun blasters,

rocket pods on the roof, and what sure as shit looks like a radar dish."

"Just sitting there, or is it turning?" Ryan asked.

"Turning steadily."

"That means it's probably working," Ryan muttered, a hard smile crossing his

face. "That's gotta be Trader."

"Indeed, logic dictates it to be so," Doc rumbled, and then added, "How can we

assist him in this internecine battle?"

"Their fight is about as civil as a jihad, ya old coot," Mildred shot back. "This

unknown Trader may be somebody we can trust, or not. But we know for a fact

that Gaza is a mad dog and the sooner he's wearing grass for a hat the better."

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Bloodfire

#64 in the Deathlands series

James Axler

A GOLD EAGLE BOOK FROM WORLDWIDE

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."

First edition December 2003

ISBN 0-373-62574-X

BLOODFIRE

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

other means, now known or hereafter invented, including xerography,

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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, 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.

Power, like a desolating pestilence,

Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience,

Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,

Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame.

—Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab (1813)

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.

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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

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…

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Chapter One

On through the night they rode, seven people on six horses, the unshod hooves

of the animals pounding against the hard packed sand of the desert.

Streaks of light were starting to brighten the overcast sky as dawn slowly came

to the Deathlands. Thunder rumbled in the distance, lightning flashing bright as a

gigavolt of electricity slashed into the planet like fire trying to cauterize an open

wound.

Suddenly, a ravine yawned wide in the ground before the companions, the edges

sparkling with a residue of salt that infused the entire landscape from the

crashing ocean tidal wave caused by the nukecaust so very long ago. Digging in

their heels, the companions urged the animals to go faster and jumped the pit,

landing hard. The horse with two riders went to its knees for a moment, then,

struggling erect once more, it continued after the others.

The seven friends were red-eyed and hunched over, exhausted from the race for

survival. The bridles of the horses were sopping wet with saliva and flecked with

foam. The humans and horses were all drenched in sweat, the chill of the night

slowly passing as the fiery sun exploded over the horizon, bathing the world in

its fire.

Moving to the steady motion of the powerful stallion he rode, Ryan Cawdor

fought his exhaustion and tried to stay in control of the beast. Tiny particles of

sand and salt hit his scarred face like invisible sleet, getting underneath the

leather patch that covered the ravaged hole of his left eye. His clothes were stiff

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