Jerry Ahern

Jerome Morrell "Jerry" Ahern (1946-2012) was an American novelist and firearms writer, born in Chicago and later based in Georgia. He is best known for The Survivalist, a post-apocalyptic action series following ex-CIA agent John Rourke, and also wrote the Defender, Track and Surgical Strike series and, as Axel Kilgore, the Mercenary series. He wrote more than eighty books with his wife Sharon, contributed to firearms magazines, and served as president of the pistol maker Detonics from 2004 to 2007.