After an atomic blast hurled the world into an uncertain future, the past still reaches out in hope...
and damnation. In a kill-or-die world, one steadfast group of survivors possesses superior fighting skills and sense of fair play that have made them living legends. In their struggle to seek a better way of life, they are unravelling the powerful secrets of the hell on earth called Deathlands.
A pre-dark legacy of shattering promise lies beneath the ruins of nuke-ravaged Seattle. Ryan Cawdor and his warrior companions come face-to-face with the ancestors of a secret society whose members were convinced that paradise awaited at the centre of the earth. This cult is inexorably tied to a conspiracy of twentieth-century scientists devoted to fulfilling a vision of genetic manipulation. In this labyrinthine ville, carved from the subterranean passages of a doomed past, some of the descendants of the Illuminated Ones are pursuing the dream of their legacy-while others are dedicated to its nightmare. Even in the Deathlands, twisted human beliefs endure....
- ISBN10 0373625669
- ISBN13 9780373625666
- Publish Date 1 December 2001
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Worldwide Library
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 346
- Language English