His most accomplished work the Survivalist series set the tone for survivalist fiction in the 1980s.

The novels are full of futuristic and new age technologies, including underwater cities, doomsday weapons, and cryonics. Later books, including the two spin-offs such as Camp Zero, the young adult series that he co-wrote with Sean Ellis and Everyman, which he co-wrote with Bob Anderson, adopted a more science fiction feel. The most intriguing aspects of his survival endeavors are the typical post-apocalyptic villains found in such novels that include cannibals, mutants, and biker gangs, all of whom engage him in long drawn out battles full of graphic violence. They cover his struggles and triumphs, including his battles with the Soviets that have invaded the United States. The first few novels in the series are about the chief protagonist Rourke’s quest to find his family that has gone missing. The first novel in the series was “Total War” that was first published in 1981. The Survivalist series of novels are usually considered a science fiction, men’s adventure, and soap opera, that comes with an uncompromising in your face social commentary. They have since written several more titles under the Survivalist series that have gone on to become just as successful as those written by the master himself. Jerry Ahern died of cancer on 24 July 2012, but his legacy lives on through his wife Sharon and his longtime friend and author Bob Anderson that picked up the series.

Jerry was married to Sharon his high school sweetheart with whom he had two children.

He was recognized as an expert on leather gear and holsters for firearms, and wrote a monthly column for “Filed Issue”. Other than his survivalist novels, Ahern was an expert in firearms and was a regular contributor to magazines such as Gun World, Handguns, and Guns and Ammo. In addition to his novels, Jerry was a contributor on over a thousand interviews, features, columns, and magazine articles. Together they would publish over eighty international bestselling novels under the pseudonyms Red Mitchell, Alec Kilgore, and his real name Jerry Ahern.

Jerry Ahern was an American writer that made a name for himself with the Survivalist series of novels, which he wrote together with his wife Sharon Ahern. The Quisling Covenant (With: Sharon Ahern) The Inheritors of Earth (With: Sharon Ahern)

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