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Dear Friends,

This series of books is technically under someone's copyright. But since the last volume of the series was published in July, 1985 (more than 25 years ago) and to my knowledge has never been reprinted, I can't believe anyone would put up much of a fuss.

However if the copyright holder of these works does object to them seeing the light of day again, please contact me via the phone number, snail mail or e-mail addresses found at the bottom of this web page. After you've contacted me and proven your copyright ownership, just give the word and all traces of The Outrider series will be deleted from this web site within 24 hours.

My ultimate goal in republishing these books to the web would be to stir up enough interest in them to warrant the author's return to the series. I was most putout when the paperback house "Golden Eagle" bought out the original "Pinnacle/Crossfire Books" (Outrider's first publishers) in the mid 1980's and failed to pick up the Outrider series. In fact Pinnacle/Crossfire Books were publishing three men's adventure serials besides The Outrider that I was buying on a regular basis at the time they were sold that failed "to make the cut" after they were bought out.

But that's another story and a whole new web page. Suffice to say that mid to late 80s saw the crest of that monetary monster known as "Merger/Takeover Mania", and only the most "lucrative" of the literary serial franchises would survive that storm.

Before I go any further I'd better warn you that if you're looking for any "highbrow" literary entertainment in these books, go someplace else. "War And Peace" they ain't! (Yes I know mother, there's no such word!) These books are what they are and nothing else. And that's an above average post apocalypse "Formula Men's Adventure Serial".

There is one really nice thing about this series though. Although it lasted only five volumes, and each of these books have a story of their own to tell, the series as a whole has a very distinct beginning, middle and end. The vengeful saga between this series' protagonist "Bonner" and it's first primary antagonist "Leather" has a very satisfying conclusion within these five books. God alone only knows how many more volumes The Outrider series would have lasted if it had been picked up with some of rest of the original "Pinnacle/Crossfire Books" inventory. But I think it's safe to say that you'll be happy with only five that are available.

I have to apologize to all the fine folk who may have downloaded this set of books while I had them posted to another web site. While I was reformatting the first two volumes of this set to this new web, I wound up reading them from beginning to end once again. Much to my chagrin I discovered that when I originally scanned and OCR'ed the first volume of this series, I completely missed/skipped pages 184 and 185 of that book! And those two pages came right out of the beginning of the climax of that book! So towards the end of the first volume of this series when you run across a block of bright yellow highlighted text (like this), you'll be able to see exactly what I omitted from this book the first time around!

Now I don't claim to be a bonafide literary critic, but I am a avid rabid fan of the post apocalypse genre. I have every volume of Johnstone's "Ashes" series, all of Ahern's "Survivors", along with all of What's Hizname's "Deathlands" books. These along with The Outrider series are just four of the about 7 or 8 post apocalypse serials that I have in my library. My serialized "End Of Civilization" books number right around 150 volumes. With my "stand alone" post apocalypse novels numbering between three and four dozen. So I am not unfamiliar with the subject. In fact if you'd like to see a list of two dozen of my favorite "end of civilization/mankind" novels, please click here. 

Clicking on any of the cover images below will take you to that book's cover page where you can see a full scale view of the cover along with a synopsis of that volume. You'll find each book's individual chapter links below their cover image and synopsis.

I hope that anyone reading this series has half as much fun reading them as I had in posting them to this web site.

All The Best To You




 

 

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