Adventure and suspense in a treacherous new world. Welcome to the nightmare. Generations after a near nuclear annihilation, America is a radiation-ravaged wasteland swarming with a thousand horrifically mutated life-forms. Ryan Cawdor and his band of post-holocaust survivors barely escape a self-destrucitn redoubt in a new Southwest and embark on a journey wverland to find the nearestgateway. But without and adequate supply of food and water, their quest is doomed. Ryan strikes a deal with the leader of a wagon train heading west: protection against all attackers in exchange for food and water. It is a deal that pits the one-eyed warrior against his olderst enemy--a sadistic, ruthless man who would stop at nothein to get his hands on Ryan Cawdor.In the Deathlands, everyone and everything is fair game, but only the strongest survive.