World War III and its aftermath of all-consuming fire left civilization on the brink of extinction. But John Thomas Rourke-the ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist and survival expert-still lives, fighting the elements and the odds. And those odds have never been more heavily stacked against Rourke than when he finds his son mortally wounded and Natalia and all of his family kidnapped by a Russian foe, long thought dead. As Rourke's son hovers between life and death under the wat