But in the eighties there arose a new generation of postholocaust heroes, what I call "Radioactive Rambos." The archetype is Jerry Ahern's John Thomas Rourke, a former CIA agent who fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan and now roams the ruined earth battling the vicious Communists who are trying to dominate the few survivors left in the rubble. The success of Ahern's Survivalist series, eventually running to some nineteen volumes and claimed sales at one point of over five million copies, spawned a vast number of imitations   Back   Home   Next