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THE ZONE Series


 

THE ZONE 0 • THE SERIES

THE ZONE 1 • HARD TARGET

THE ZONE 2 • BLIND FIRE

THE ZONE 3 • HUNTER-KILLER

THE ZONE 4 • SKY STRIKE

THE ZONE 5 • OVERKILL

THE ZONE 6 • PLAGUE BOMB

THE ZONE 7 • KILLING GROUND

THE ZONE 8 • CIVILIAN SLAUGHTER

THE ZONE 9 • BODY COUNT

THE ZONE 10 • DEATH MARCH

 

 

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THE ZONE Series  


by James Rouch 

 

A series of novels set in an alternate future history: World War III

 

THE ZONE Series by James Rouch.  The Zone Series is set in an alternative future where the Berlin wall did not fall, the cold war turned hot and the Soviets launched a broad-front attack on Western Europe. Due to a certain 'lack of enthusiasm' by some units of the Warsaw Pact, the Soviet assault faltered and NATO were just able to stall their advance. The fighting continues. A giant no-mans land cuts a broad swathe across the continent. Contaminated by chemical, radioactive and biological weapons, THE ZONE is literally a hell on earth. THE ZONE has been Published in the UK, USA and Spain between 1980 to 1990, with a 10th novel in the series on the way THE ZONE continues into the new millennium.

 

From the Author

The books follow a group of NATO troops, their relationships, the fighting and sometimes looks at life beyond THE ZONE. I had the idea for the series just after the publication of my third 'World War Two' novel. I wanted to bring the war novel up to date, so combining careful research with a vivid imagination and a dirty mind I came up with THE ZONE. It was great fun to write, and I got attached to some of the characters but none of them were invulnerable, and a twist of a plot would see a favourite get the chop.

- James Rouch

 

 

 

Last updated: Thursday, 23 August 2007.

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THE ZONE Series


by James Rouch 

 

 

 

THE ZONE 1 • HARD TARGET

 

For two years The Zone has been alive with death, ravaged by war beyond sanity, raped and with fire and poison.

 

In a lull between offensives, a joint NATO strike force prepares to take out a Soviet tank salvage unit sited behind a refugee column. 

Hard Target is right…

 

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THE ZONE 2 • BLIND FIRE

 

The Third Battle of Frankfurt lurches into its second week in a savage paroxysm of blood and hellish fire.

 

In the shattered towns of The Zone the armies of men and metal fight for control of streets that can be won only with a trail of mangled corpses…

 

"They drove straight through us like we weren't' there...There wasn't much time for counting... I reckon about twenty-five of the Red's latest tanks, plus an assortment of APCs, self-propelled artillery, flak and some fancy engineer wagons. Maybe forty, forty-five pieces of armour in all... No nothing, if the Red's keep up that pace, you'll have them coming in by the back door in about five hours..." 

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THE ZONE 3 • HUNTER-KILLER

 

Devastated by battle, The Zone is gripped by the vicious cold of winter. Freezing temperatures close the Baltic ports, while a Soviet fleet plans a killer punch to NATO convoy routes.

 

The balance of power in The Zone depends on stopping them. The only chance is an air-drop on to a Swedish island. A sabotage mission in Arctic weather to strike down warships of the apocalypse…

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THE ZONE 4 • SKY STRIKE

 

Whispering death from above. The NATO heli-strike sliced, scalpel-sharp, at the Soviet supplies jugular. But the vital arterial rail junction deep behind the East German front line turned out to be a strike too far.

 

Soon the Special Combat Group was battling desperately back across the wasted, death-seared warscape of The Zone, hoping only to survive.

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THE ZONE 5 • OVERKILL

 

Hamburg, surrounded and besieged by the Russians. Fighting their way up the wreckage and mine-strewn Elbe, the remnants of the relief force arrive too late and too weakened to do more than join the desperate, ill-fed, ill-armed defenders clinging to the ruined city. Living underground, the stench of the dead hanging over the smoking rubble, they fight a hideous battle for survival against an enemy grown savage with frustration.

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THE ZONE 6 • PLAGUE BOMB

 

The contaminated territory lies along the battle-scorched edge of the hellish strip of Western Europe known as The Zone. Leeched of life by Russian defoliants and experimental chemical weapons, lit­tered with the decaying corpses of soldiers and refugees, the barren wasteland exudes a poisonous toxin soup of certain death for anyone unequipped to cross its boundaries.

 

When the joint NATO task force of American Major Revell and British Sergeant Hyde is assigned to intercept a spurious civilian peace mis­sion intent on reaching Russian lines, their most direct route leads across the plague-infested terrain. But hellish death can come in unexpected forms to the new warriors of the Armageddon, and the special combat team suddenly finds themselves waging a savage battle against a more insidious enemy than they could ever have imagined on the infected, death-seared edge of The Zone.

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THE ZONE 7 • KILLING GROUND

 

Mankind's final war continues in the contaminated strip of post-nuclear European hell known as The Zone. Drowning in a savage deluge of Warsaw Pact missiles, subjected to seemingly endless, round-the-clock air strikes, the brave but exhausted remnants of NATO's Special Combat Company are forced to fall back across the gutted, radioactive wasteland of West Germany.

 

But American Major Revell and British Sergeant Hyde are sick of retreating. They want to hit back at the ruthless Russian aggressors, and hit back hard! In a huge, abandoned ammunition dump, Revell and Hyde prepare to rally their decimated forces for one explosive last stand against the overwhelming enemy. But in the face of an unstoppable Soviet advance, it will take much more than raw courage to survive in The Zone.   

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THE ZONE 8 • CIVILIAN SLAUGHTER

 

A Shaky truce has been called. Major Revell's Special Combat Company, misfits and mavericks accustomed to fierce front-line action, is assigned mundane behind-the-lines duties. But their interest - and their anger - are aroused when a series of mass graves is discovered. Civilians are being slaughtered by the KGB battalion facing the SCC position. Revell's reports are ignored. HQ threatens to disband the SCC if the matter is pressed. So Revell and his fighting band of misfits take matters into their own hands, waging merciless war on the perpetrators of the atrocities and adding new devastation to the nightmare landscape called The Zone.

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THE ZONE 9 • BODY COUNT

 

As NATO Command struggles to thwart a devastating Warsaw Pact bombing raid, a giant Russian transport barrels through The Zone, disgorging two hundred elite commandos on the outskirts of Frankfurt. Suddenly, and without warning, communication facilities are seized, industrial centers destroyed, and blood soaks the streets of what was once a NATO stronghold.

 

With no-one left to turn to, NATO Command points to Major Revell and his Special Combat Company, battle-hardened grunts hungry for action, to reclaim the city. They race from one hot spot to the next, often fighting amid masses of civilians. Mistakes are made, innocents die, and Revell's men find themselves seriously out­gunned by an insidious new breed of enemy from... The Zone.

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THE ZONE 10 • DEATH MARCH NOW Available!

 
To halt a furious Russian assault, NATO have used Special Atomic Demolition Munitions to destroy the enemy’s axis of advance.  Major Revell’s squad have been tasked with recovering a damaged Nuclear Mine from behind the Russian lines.

The squad’s route lies through a city the Russians have recently occupied and are looting.  To return they have to cross the path of an enemy flank attack that threatens the NATO defence.  As the Warsaw Pact attack advances they brutally use refugees as human shields and concealment.  To smash the attack Revell’s men have to over take the enemy column and destroy their leading units and hope to use captured supplies on the way.

It’s deadly race with a lethal outcome.

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THE ZONE 1- 10 • FULL SERIES

 

THE ZONE 1 • HARD TARGET

THE ZONE 2 • BLIND FIRE

THE ZONE 3 • HUNTER KILLER

THE ZONE 4 • SKY STRIKE

THE ZONE 5 • OVERKILL

THE ZONE 6 • PLAGUE BOMB

THE ZONE 7 • KILLING GROUND

THE ZONE 8 • CIVILIAN SLAUGHTER

THE ZONE 9 • BODY COUNT

THE ZONE 10 • DEATH MARCH

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THE ZONE 1 • HARD TARGET

THE ZONE 2 • BLIND FIRE

THE ZONE 3 • HUNTER KILLER

THE ZONE 4 • SKY STRIKE

THE ZONE 5 • OVERKILL

THE ZONE 6 • PLAGUE BOMB

THE ZONE 7 • KILLING GROUND

THE ZONE 8 • CIVILIAN SLAUGHTER

THE ZONE 9 • BODY COUNT

THE ZONE 10 • DEATH MARCH

THE ZONE 1-10 • FULL SERIES

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JAMES ROUCH

 

James Rouch has been a writer for twenty-two years. In that time he has had twelve books published. Three of them are novels of the Second World War. TIGER, set in Northern France during the breakout from the Normandy beach-head. THE WAR MACHINES, set in North Africa and GATEWAY TO HELL, dealing with the fighting for Monte Cassino in Italy. All went to reprints with several translation rights sold.

 

A series of nine novels entitled THE ZONE has comprised the rest of his output. Again on the subject of war their theme is an alternative near future where the Berlin Wall did not fall. Instead the cold war suffered meltdown. A war across Europe imploded, concentrating itself in a great contaminated swathe of territory slashed across the continent, a huge no-mans land, THE ZONE.

 

The novels were published in the UK and the USA. The series was also taken by Spain, with other translation rights sold.

 

 


 

 

THE ZONE

 

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