Jerry Ahern’s Top Ten Survival Tips

1. Be Informed of What’s Happening. Monitoring news and world events and always have an emergency radio nearby.
2. Don’t Get Caught Unprepared. Have emergency supplies of food, water and other necessities always on-hand.
3. The Police Won’t Protect You. Protect yourself and those for whom you are responsible.
4. Be Prepared to Handle Medical Emergencies. You may have to go beyond antiseptic spray and band-aids.
5. You’ll Need Light When the Power Grid Fails. Keep a flashlight, matches, kerosene lamp and candles ready to go.
6. Carry a compass. Your GPS Won’t Always Work in the Wilderness. Learn how to actually use it and learn how to read a map.
7. Invest in A Good Strong Lockblade Folding Knife. The knife is one of mankind’s most versatile tools.
8. Keep your cell phone charged. Explore alternate ways of charging phones like battery packs and DC outlets.
9. Be Wary of Strangers. Disasters make people panic. Protect what’s yours.
10. Whenever legally possible, carry a handgun you know how to use.

From the book, Survive! by Jerry Ahern

Krause Publications

Available at bookstores everywhere!

Survive! The Disaster, Crisis, and Emergency Handbook

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE ASKED

LIST OF WORKS PUBLISHED by

JERRY AND SHARON AHERN

U.S. Only with first publication date

THE SURVIVALIST   Series from ZEBRA BOOKS (including two Super Survivalists).  Also published in U.K., Japan, France, Canada and Poland.  Also available as E-books via the Internet. Available as dramatized soundscaped audio.

1. TOTAL WAR (1981)

2. THE NIGHTMARE BEGINS (1981)

3. THE QUEST (1981)

4. THE DOOMSAYER (1981)

5. THE WEB (1983)

6. THE SAVAGE HORDE (1983)

7. THE PROPHET (1984)

8. THE END IS COMING (1984)

9. EARTHFIRE (1984)

10. THE AWAKENNING (1984)

11. THE REPRISAL (1985)

12. THE REBELLION (1985)

13. PURSUIT (1986)

14. THE TERROR (1987)

15. OVERLORD (1987)

---- MID-WAKE  (1988)

16. THE ARSENAL (1988)

17. THE ORDEAL (1988)

18. THE STRUGGLE (1989)

19. FINAL RAIN !989)

20. FIRESTORM  (1990)

21. …TO END ALL WAR (1990)

---- THE LEGEND  (1991)

22. BRUTAL CONQUEST (1991)

23. CALL TO BATTLE (1992)

24. BLOOD ASSASSINS (1992)

25. WAR MOUNTAIN (1993)

26. COUNTDOWN (1993)

27. DEATH WATCH (1993)

THE DEFENDER Series from Dell (including Super Defender).  Also published as audio books.  Also available as E-books.

1. THE BATTLE BEGINS (1988)

2. THE KILLING WEDGE (1988)

3. OUT OF CONTROL (1988)

4. DECISION TIME (1989)

5. ENTRAPMENT (1989)

6. ESCAPE (1989)

7. VENGEANCE (1989)

8. JUSTICE DENIED (1989)

9. DEATHGRIP (1990)

10. THE GOOD FIGHT (1990)

11. THE CHALLENGE (1990)

12. NO SURVIVORS  (1990)

SURGICAL STRIKE   Limited Series From Berkeley.

1. SURGICAL STRIKE (1988)

2. ASSAULT ON THE EMPRESS (1989)

3. INFILTRATOR (1990)

TRACK Series from Gold Eagle.  Also published in Brazil.

1. THE NINETY-NINE (1984)

2. ATROCITY (1984)

3. THE ARMAGEDDON CONSPIRACY (1984)

4. THE HARD WAY (1984)

5. ORIGIN OF A VENDETTA (1985)

6. CERTAIN BLOOD (1985)

7. MASTER OF D.E.A.T.H. (1985)

8. REVENGE OF THE MASTER (1985)

9. THE D.E.A.T.H. HUNTERS (1985)

10. COCAINE RUN (1985)

THEY CALL ME THE MERCENARY  Series from ZEBRA BOOKS.  By “Axel Kilgore.”  Also published in Russia (in hard cover).  Also available as E-books via the Internet.  Was also published as audio.

1. THE KILLER GENESIS (1980)

2. THE SLAUGHTER RUN (1980)

3. FOURTH REICH DEATH SQUAD (1980)

4. THE OPIUM HUNTER (1981)

5. CANADIAN KILLING GROUND (1981)

6. VENGEANCE ARMY (1981)

7. SLAVE OF THE WARMONGER (1981)

8. ASSASSIN’S EXPRESS (1982)

9. THE TERROR CONTRACT (1982)

10. BUSH WARFARE (1982)

11. DEATH LUST (1982)

12. HEAD SHOT! (1982)

13. NAKED BLADE, NAKED GUN (1983)

14. THE SIBERIAN ALTERNATIVE (1983)

15. THE AFGHANISTAN PENETRATION (1983)

16. CHINA BLOODHUNT (1983)

17. BUCKINGHAM BLOWOUT (1984)

RODEO Series from Pinnacle Books (prior to Zebra ownership).  By “Red Mitchell.”  Also published in Serbo-Croatian editions.

1. RODEO (1981)

2. SLAYRIDE (1982)

NICK CARTER Series from Ace Books By “Nick Carter.”

THE TURKISH BLOODBATH (1980)

DEATHLIGHT (1982)

INDIVIDUAL NOVELS

werewolveSS Zebra/Pinnacle (1990)

THE FREEMAN Bantam (1986)  Also E-books

MIAMIGRAD Pocket Books (1987) Also published in Spain

THE YAKUSA TATTOO Pocket Books (1988)  Also published in Germany

THE KAMIKAZE LEGACY (Sequel to above title) (1990)

THE TAKERS Gold Eagle Books (1984) Also published in U.K., Brazil and published as E-book and as audio book

THE TAKERS/RIVER OF GOLD (Sequel to above title) (1985) Also published in Brazil and published as E-book.

THE GOLDEN SHIELD OF IBF Baen Books (1999)

NON-FICTION

CCW: CARRYING CONCEALED WEAPONS  Blacksmith Press (1996).

SHORT STORIES PUBLISHED

“Siege Perilous” in GRAILS: QUESTS, VISITATIONS AND OTHER OCCURRENCES Unnameable Press (1992)

“Roll Call” in CONFEDERACY OF THE DEAD ROC Books (1993)

“Silent Pace” in PHOBIAS Pocket Books (1994)

“The Vampire Killer” in WEIRD MENACE American Independent Press (1994)

“Siege Perilous” reprinted in DARKER GRAILS ROC Books (1994)

“…For I Have Sinned” in MORE PHOBIAS Pocket Books (1995)

WORKS IN PROGRESS:

WRITTEN IN TIME                

COMING SOON

SURVIVE!  THE DISASTER, CRISIS AND EMERGENCY HANDBOOK - COMING IN MARCH 2010

GUN DIGEST BUYER’S GUIDE TO CONCEALED CARRY HANDGUNS

ARMED FOR PERSONAL DEFENSE

THE SURVIVALIST’S SECRETS (SOME OF THEM) REVEALED!

If you are or were into the adventures of “John Rourke” and his family as told in our series THE SURVIVALIST, then you might want to visit www.survivalweekly.com/?p=292 and read an interview I did in which I reveal a number of details most people don’t know about John Rourke.  For example, I talk quite candidly about why a script could not be written that would enable one of Hollywood’s most revered producers to exercise his option and make “THE SURVIVALIST – THE MOTION PICTURE,” or whatever it would have been called.  There’s also a contest to win a copy ofTOTAL WAR, the first book in the series, autographed by Sharon and me.  We’ll try to write neatly.  You’ll find lots of good information on the site, as well…

If you are into Facebook, and you like THE SURVIVALIST, you’ll find that there is now a Facebook Group page devoted to the series.  Thanks to James Baird for this, and introducing me to Facebook, which our daughter and our son kindly explained to me and I still don’t fully understand.  If you are a member or whatever you call it, go into Facebook and then into “Groups” and there are pictures, U.K. book covers, photographs, etc.  Sharon and I hope you check it out…    

If you are interested in the latest facts and opinions on law enforcement/military equipment, you may want to check out still another website, the web version of the popular slick magazine TACTICAL GEAR.  The website is www.tacticalgearmag.com and I’m sure sometimes you’ll be seeing something with my byline there, since I write quite frequently for the print version.  It’s a “sister” publication to GUN DIGEST THE MAGAZINE…

If you like westerns that are really westerns, two of TV’s best are once again airing regularly.  And, you can see them – or record them – if you’ve got a package that includes the Encore channels.  Encore’s western channel runs lots of great films and series – they are running “Gunsmoke,” for example.  But, two of Sharon’s and my favorites from the late 1950s and early 1960s were/are “Cheyenne” and “Have Gun – Will Travel.”  I’ve had the pleasure of talking extensively by telephone with “Cheyenne’s” Clint Walker and, as soon as Sharon and I get the tape transcribed, pieces of an interview I did with Clint Walker will be appearing in some of my columns and probably here, as well.  Clint Walker in real life is just as much the kind of guy you can like and respect as “Cheyenne Bodie” was/is on screen.  I never got to talk with the late Richard Boone, but his iconic black clad gunfighter, “Paladin,” should certainly be award posthumously the title for projecting the most believable menace of any good guy character ever created.  Both westerns hold up perfectly and are not something you’ll wish you hadn’t watched again.  They are as fresh and well done as anything made today, and quite a bit better than most of today’s fare.  Get your kids to watch these early “adult westerns” and help them to develop an appreciation for the values of the old west, not to mention meticulously written scripts, terrific direction and peerless acting…

Sharon and I are busily trying to get one book finished, as far as writing is concerned, and two books photographed.

LET’S JUST TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER, SHALL WE?

The snow is melting away as I write this. It began melting yesterday. On Friday, Northeast Georgia got hit with the odd snowstorm. I use the word “odd” because, in most years, we never see snow. This year we’ve seen a dusting or two and that couple of inches that is just melting off. It’s been an unusually wet winter. Actually, fall and summer were pretty wet, too. Georgia has gone from water shortages and drought to floods and ground so saturated even relatively minor rainfalls are causes for flash flood warnings and rivers and streams rising to or above flood stage. This is all in less than a year. Sharon was just checking the forecast and we may wind up with another inch or two of snowfall starting tonight and into tomorrow. I’m no meteorologist, but I’ve always been interested in weather, read books and articles about meteorology, done some serious research in association with our writing. And, the climate is changing.

But, that is normal. Earth’s climate is not static. Go driving in Wisconsin sometime and check out the terrain. You’ll see things called “terminal moraines,” little ridges and hills that were formed where the advancing glaciers of the last true Ice Age stopped. We used to live in Chicago, in the suburb of Oak Park. We checked a map showing the southernmost boundary of the Ice Age “Lake Chicago,” a sort of Lake Michigan on steroids. If we’d lived in Oak Park in those days, we could have walked to the beach which was only about a mile away, according to that map.

When the Earth warmed up after that last great Ice Age, it wasn’t because there were too many cars emitting too much pollution, nor were those great factories that didn’t exist belching too much smoke into the atmosphere. No, it was just because the climate of our planet is cyclical. Why? I have no idea. Maybe God just wanted it that way, or maybe the very cycles of our planet’s climate keep it from ever getting so hot or so cold that it would be uninhabitable. Solar cycles have to do with Earth’s climate, of course, and I’d really love for one of the “mankind is destroying the planet” fanatics to explain exactly how we are affecting the Sun.

What man does on the surface of the Earth certainly has some effect. If we are in a cycle of global warming, our greenhouse gas emissions may well be hastening it along – but, cycles are still natural and I’m becoming more and more convinced that a suspicion I’ve harbored for quite some time is proving out.

As I say in our forthcoming book, SURVIVE! THE DISASTER, CRISIS AND EMERGENCY HANDBOOK, “With the melt-off of cubic mile after cubic mile of fresh-water Arctic Sea ice and Greenland glacier comes the very real potential for radical cooling of the British Isles and much of Western Europe, due to a slowdown or shutdown of the Gulf Stream.

“The Gulf Stream is actually a two-way ‘street,’ part of which is called the North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation – NAMOC, for short. The Gulf Stream brings warm waters up from the Caribbean, which allows England, Scotland, Wales, the Irelands and Western Europe to have temperate climates. This two way-street, however, can be closed for repairs when the temperature and salinity of the interchange location in the North Atlantic are altered. For the Gulf Stream to work and the warm current to come north, a returning current of salt water must travel back. An oversimplification, perhaps, but if traffic in one direction is reduced or stopped, traffic in both directions are affected. If the circulation is seriously altered, the British Isles and Western Europe will have drastically colder winters at best. At worst, the Northern Hemisphere could experience a return to glaciation and a new Ice Age – minus the cute animated animals. The ultimate irony would be that global warming – whatever the cause and extent – causes global cooling.”

In the light of Climategate and faked or unsubstantiated research being used as the basis for much of the “fact” proving the profound effect humanity is having on global warming, perhaps those climate authorities who are warning that we are entering into a period of global cooling and a possible mini-Ice Age will be given more credence.

It is not a bad idea to study the Earth’s weather systems, certainly. But, spending money to study something called “global warming” is rather like measuring a man for a pine box before putting him on trial for a hanging offense – outcome is assumed to be assured. People like the guy who lives in The White House and his minions and the world government crowd at the United Nations want to “prove” that mankind is ruining the planet, this as justification for more regulation, more taxes, more restrictions and fewer freedoms. If the facts don’t agree with the hoped for outcome, it matters not at all. Can you say, “Ulterior motive?”