|  Jerome Morrell Ahern was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was an expert on firearms and served as president of a firearms company. He is the creator of:
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Titles and year of publication:
| 'Defender' Novels | |
| 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) Death Grip | 1990 | 
| 10) The Good Fight | 1990 | 
| 11) The Challenge | 1990 | 
| 12) No Survivors | 1990 | 
| 'Ed Mulvaney' Novels (with Sharon Ahern) | |
| 1) The Yakusa Tattoo | 1988 | 
| 2) The Kamikaze Legacy | 1990 | 
| 'Surgical Strike' Novels | |
| 1) Surgical Strike | 1988 | 
| 2) Assault on the Empress | 1989 | 
| 3) Infiltrator | 1990 | 
| 'Survivalist' Novels | |
| 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 Awakening | 1984 | 
| 11) The Reprisal | 1985 | 
| 12) The Rebellion | 1985 | 
| 13) Pursuit | 1986 | 
| 14) The Terror | 1987 | 
| 15) Overlord | 1987 | 
| 16) Mid-Wake | 1988 | 
| 17) The Arsenal | 1988 | 
| 18) The Ordeal | 1988 | 
| 19) The Struggle | 1989 | 
| 20) Final Rain | 1989 | 
| 21) Firestorm | 1990 | 
| 22) To End All War | 1990 | 
| 23) The Legend | 1991 | 
| 24) Brutal Conquest | 1991 | 
| 25) Call to Battle | 1992 | 
| 26) Blood Assassins | 1992 | 
| 27) War Mountain | 1993 | 
| 28) Countdown | 1993 | 
| 29) Death Watch | 1993 | 
| 30) The Inheritors of Earth (with Sharon Ahern and Bob Anderson) | 2013 | 
| 31) Earth Shine (with Sharon Ahern and Bob Anderson) | 2013 | 
| 32) The Quisling Covenant (with Sharon Ahern and Bob Anderson) | 2014 | 
| 33) Deep Star (with Sharon Ahern and Bob Anderson) | 2015 | 
| 34) Lodestar (with Sharon Ahern and Bob Anderson) | 2016 | 
| 35) Blood Moon (with Sharon Ahern and Bob Anderson) | 2018 | 
| 36) Operation Phoenix (with Sharon Ahern and Bob Anderson) | 2019 | 
| 'Survivalist' E-Stories | |
| 1) Shades of Love (with Sharon Ahern and Bob Anderson) | 2013 | 
| 2) Once Upon a Time (with Sharon Ahern and Bob Anderson) | 2014 | 
| 3) Light Dreams (with Sharon Ahern and Bob Anderson) | 2014 | 
| 'Takers' Novels (with Sharon Ahern) | |
| 1) The Takers | 1984 | 
| 2) River of Gold | 1985 | 
| 3) Summon the Demon | 2014 | 
| 'They Call Me the Mercenary' Novels (as Axel Kilgore) | |
| 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 | 
| 'Dan Track' Novels | |
| 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 | 
| Other Novels (with Sharon Ahern) | |
| 1) The Freeman | 1986 | 
| 2) Miamigrad | 1987 | 
| 3) WerewolveSS | 1990 | 
| 4) The Golden Shield of IBF | 1999 | 
| As 'Nick Carter' | |
| 1) Turkish Bloodbath | 1980 | 
| 2) Deathlight | 1982 |