Dark Resurrection (Deathlands) [Mass Market Paperback]

James Axler (Author)

Book Description

Series: Deathlands | Publication Date: March 10, 2009

Postnuclear America has changed little since the primal leveling of the twenty-first century. Warrior survivalists Ryan Cawdor and his band live by a code that honors the kind of absolute freedom only a raw frontier can provide. Until rumors of a wider, more prosperous world than the Deathlands thriving deep in Mexico, untouched by the nukecaust, lure them into uncharted waters....

Captured by the pirate foot soldiers of the mysterious Lords of Death, Ryan Cawdor and his companions sail into a surreal world where electric lights blaze but blood terror reigns. In Veracruz, Mexico, Ryan is marked for slaughter, his effigy linked to an ancient deity. Helpless, Krysty, Dix and the others await a horrifying fate at the hands of whitecoats manipulating pre-dark plague warfare. As the Lords of Death unleash their demonic vision, hope--for Ryan, the others and nascent civilization--appears irrevocably lost.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Gold Eagle; Original edition (March 10, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373625952
• ISBN-13: 978-0373625956
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #899,809 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dark Resurrection (Deathlands: Empire of Xibalba) by James Axler, April 10, 2009

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M. Mulkin "M. Mulkin" (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dark Resurrection (Deathlands) (Mass Market Paperback)

Dark Resurrection (Deathlands: Empire of Xibalba Book 2)
This book is the 2nd half and was great reading--equally as good as Shadow World. That was one on the very best!!

I thought James Axler wrote all the books, but now I understand he might not have!

Either way Great Books - Great Series KEEP WRITING. I sure would like to see more about Shadow World!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Deathlands blazes new territory, March 2, 2009

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Ron Miles "code monkey" (Orlando, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dark Resurrection (Deathlands) (Mass Market Paperback)

Occasionally in the past, Deathlands titles have strayed into other parts of the world - trips to Russia, Japan, and Mexico come to mind - but those have been the result of mat-trans jumps and tended to offer only a tiny local view of the area visited. With Dark Resurrection the series explores a large region of southern Mexico and Central America. The book picks up three weeks after the end of Plague Lords, with the companions barely surviving as slave labor rowing the Matachin galleys that destroyed Padre Island at the climax of the previous books. The book moves from Veracruz to Panama and ultimately to Xibalba itself for a final showdown with the Lords of Death.

Where previous Deathlands "duologies" have generally tended to be more along the lines of two or three loosely related stories, Plague Lords and Dark Resurrection really read as a single 700 page novel. There is plenty of a action to go around, but there is also an infusion of interesting ideas and locales into the storyline. One only hopes that those ideas will be picked up on by other authors in the series and explored more fully.

I also really enjoyed the character of Daniel Desipio, once the author of dozens of trashy pulp post-apocalyptic novels in the fictional Slaughter Realms series and now the vector for releasing a terrible plague. The metaphor was not lost on me, and even though he was thoroughly despicable as a person I still enjoyed the heck out the wonderful absurdity of the Slaughter Realms books.

There was a healthy dose of meaty subtext to this story, far beyond what one expects from a series like Deathlands, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Paybacks are a bitch, March 20, 2011

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baron iceberg - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dark Resurrection (Deathlands) (Kindle Edition)

Immediately you are on a ship with JB Dix with this sentence "Yawning of the tug caused the horizon to leap and fall wildly making other ships vanish and reapear" .Remarkable choice of words.Or "bow wave created by the front wheels revealed the cause of the rough ride"This concludes the lesson today in "DeathLands 101"Excellent book.