'AFTER CLEANSING' Alternate History Novels Series

Ever Onward Sergeant 'Deadly Dave' Henderson is one very unstable soldier. Has been for years now. Ever since he got back from 'over there'. When finally served his divorce papers, good old 'Deadly Dave' seeks revenge on his wife by shooting her. He does this, not as might be expected, in their home or in the bed of his wife's lover, but at her place of work --- a top secret chemical warfare lab in the California desert. As the bullets from Dave's M-16 spill blood and shatter bone, they shatter too the vials of a highly toxic secret nerve gas --- a gas cunningly designed to kill only humans, chimpanzees and the greater apes. So deadly is this 'man-made plague', that once released into the atmosphere and carried by the winds, eighty percent of the world's population is dead within a week. 'Ever Onward' is the story of the twenty percent of humans who somehow survive the global plague--- at least for a while. High school teacher Josh Williams is one of them. On a camping trip in New York's Adirondacks with his teenage son Jessie and brother-in-law, Josh awakes to find that 'Uncle Bob' has somehow turned into a pile of dirty grey ashes. Private Jocco Wellington is another survivor. Like Josh Williams, Jocco awakes to find that everyone at China Lake Weapons Center has died during the night; turned into a greyish substance that reminds him of a wasp nest he once crushed as a lad. Unlike Josh, however, Jocco is not overly disturbed about the loss of life --- after all, why should he be. He was still alive, and, for Jocco, that's all that really mattered. These two natural leaders, the teacher and the soldier, go about rebuilding society each in their own way. Josh's vision is one based on family, friends and community, with equality, fair play and justice for all. Jocco's vision is somewhat darker and far more self-centered. One man builds a group of frightened, suspicious survivors into a thriving, vibrant community on the green shores of Upstate New York's Lake Champlain. The other man forges his own personal army of misfits, killers and psychopaths, lining the desert highway to his kingdom with the crucified remains of all that dare defy him. When these two men finally meet, who will be the one to go 'ever onward'? Please note: This is not a children's book. Mature language and actions are depicted.

Fallen Angels: 2 A.C. In 'Ever Onward', the first book in W. Wm. Mee's epic Ragnok Series, an accident in a U.S. chemical warfare plant unleashed a world wide plague that killed off most of the human race. Civilization died soon after. The few that survived, did so by much 'older rules'.'Fallen Angels' tells how other survivors from various parts of the country lived through 'The Change' and the first two hellish years that followed. You'll meet an ex convenience store manager that builds himself a small kingdom in up-state New York and ride shotgun westward with a once timid Chicago teacher and her new boyfriend, a Blackfoot Amerindian named Billy Two Trees.You'll have an up-close and very personal view from the back seat of a Harley as the remnants of a biker gang rape and pillage their way towards the setting sun --- and you'll stand in the blood-spattered pulpit of an ex con-man turned prophet out to lead his fallen and often headstrong flock to freedom --- whether they want it or not! And you'll meet strong, silent Sam; the 'great American cowboy', who 'saves the day, wins the girl and beats the bad guy' --- or dies trying.In 'Fallen Angels', as in all of the books in the 'Ragnok Series', you'll laugh, cry, drink and fight beside some of the most interesting, complex and frightening characters ever to strut, run or slither across a page! There are no vampires, no zombies, no nasty things that go 'bump' in the night. The only 'monsters' are those that some carry deep within themselves --- and most of those were there long before the coming of 'The Change'.In Fallen Angels', a few frightened, determined people gather together to try to hold back the dark, build something good --- and fight off the evil that lies in some men's hearts.Note to the reader:Each book in the Ragnok Series stands alone and need NOT be read in order.

Welcome, Gentle Reader to life in the ‘Old South’. Ten years have come and gone since the man-made ‘Death Clouds’ swept the globe clean of most of the human race. For the small number of humans that survived ‘The Change’, (or ‘God’s Cleansing’ as some are now calling it), it has been a decade of great turmoil, strife and sadly, almost constant warfare. During the first few years A.C. people killed for food, weapons and a semi-safe place to lay their head. Later they killed out of fear, greed, ignorance or self-preservation. Finally, when most people were no longer always hungry or always cold or always frightened, they killed, (as they always have and always will do) in the name of religion. In 10 A.C., the crack of the whip, the clink of the chains and the cries of the enslaved drift over the dusty roads like a dark cloud staining the countryside. And not just this road, but all the highways and byways that criss-crossed the once great and glorious ‘Old South’. They used to say that ‘All roads lead to Rome’. Now , ten years after ‘God’s Holy Cleansing’, it seemed, all roads led to Black Oaks, the ‘presidential plantation’ occupied by His Holiness, the somewhat less than ‘honourable Reverend Langhorne Calhoun. A one-time preacher, part-time potentate and most recently, potential pedophile, the ‘Good Reverend’, now seems much more interested in selling slaves than saving souls. To be fair, however, in the beginning the man ‘seemed’ to be ‘Heaven sent’ --- or at least the right man for a rather dirty job --- killing the crazies that claimed to follow some ‘fanatic’ that went by the laughable name of the ‘Dark Stranger’. After three long years of terrible hardship and war, the Reverend and his ‘Army of God’s Warriors’ finally defeated this ‘Dark Stranger’, exterminated most of his Crazies’ and brought, if not ‘peace’, at least a time of respite to a people still recovering from a world-wide plague. For a brief, shining moment there was a time when having a child in a bed and a crop in the field was more important than a gun in a hand or killing a stranger. To achieve this ‘divine utopia’ however, the Good Reverend and his followers (the so called ‘Purists’ or ‘Pures’) were more than willing to beat the living shit out of anyone who even ‘looked’ like they might oppose the Reverend’s ‘divine will’. This new, holy society rose up on the bent backs and sweating brows of the ‘lesser folk’, condescendingly called the ‘Normals’ or ‘Norms’ ‘All roads lead to Rome’, they say. They also say that ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely.’ In the year 10 A.C., the Good Reverend proved that quaint old saying to be absolutely true. God wills it! --- Alaha akbar! --- His Will be done!

Over three decades have passed since The Cleansing, when the 'Death Clouds' swept the globe, killing 80% of the human population. Bullets now replace cash, lost government stockpiles of weapons are worth fighting wars over and Sierra Seven or ‘The Stash’ is the biggest find of them all! Surviving humans and ‘muties’ alike both want it, and are willing to do anything to get it! But some treasures are best left buried.