James Robert Smith

When the dead rose to destroy the living, Ron Cutter learned to survive. While so many others died, he thrived. His life is a constant battle against the living dead. As he casts his own bullets and packs his shotgun shells, his humanity slowly melts away. Then he encounters a lost boy and a woman searching for a place of refuge. Can they help him recover the emotions he set aside to live? And if he does recover them, will those feelings be an asset in his struggles, or a danger to him? For the first time, all of the trilogy of novels are collected in one volume. As recounted by author James Robert Smith, author of The Flock.

From the author of The Flock, comes his new novel, The Emissary. In the North Carolina mountains the town of Jasperton has lost a fading enchantment that has protected it for almost one hundred years from an ancient curse. Martin and Amy Braun, separated, and their marriage almost at an end over the death of their young son, suddenly find themselves reunited to care for a lost child who bears a striking resemblance to their deceased boy. As the town begins to fall victim to the rising influence of an aged evil, they must decide if the child is an emissary for salvation, or for the malignant forces gathering within the town.

In the wake of the zombie apocalypse people gather in scattered communities to try to preserve civilization. Roland Thompson and his fellow citizens assemble in the town of Sparta, high in the Appalachian mountains. Below, in the Piedmont, others are coming together, not all of them as friendly as they might seem. But Thompson and his fellow citizens of Sparta have become implacable defenders of human life, and of liberty. They have the will to survive, and the means to defend themselves.(This novel is a re-written, re-edited version of a book previously released by another publisher as THE LIVING END.)

Once, there was a land like no other. It was a city-state, a nation. The reach of its rulers sometimes spanned continents, and at other times reached no farther than the walls of a war-torn palace. Giants lived in Mangrove-powerful kings and generals who ruled all within their sight; and lands far beyond. And it gave birth to the least of us--powerless serfs and homeless orphans who begged for the smallest coins. In times of greatness its armies plundered far and wide, trampling everything and everyone before them. And in days of despair its soldiers died in vain defending the gates. Its art and its technology and the skill of its wizards were unsurpassed. The books in its libraries and the men who put spells to parchment all burned together. Mangrove lived and thrived and its people strode across the planet. Mangrove died and was forgotten and no one remembered much about it, unless it was in legends and tales told to frighten unruly children or to satisfy curious sages. Mangrove lives, in dreams. Here, then, are four...four from Mangrove.

A remote Florida swamp has been targeted for theme-park development, and the swamp's inhabitants are none too happy. It doesn't help that the residents are a colony of intelligent, prehistoric, dinosaur-like birds. This flock of beasts, relying on stealth, cunning, and killer instinct survived the mass extinction that killed off the dinosaurs, and have been living in secret, just outside our civilized world. The developers hire mercenaries to exterminate the flock, and a billionaire rogue environmentalist has his own plans for these rare, predatory creatures. A naive young Fish and Wildlife officer caught between these two incredibly powerful forces may find out the hard way that man is the most dangerous predator of them all..." The Flock" is a contemporary eco-thriller about what can happen when man violates nature, and nature fights back.