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Also by Nicholas Sansbury Smith:

Rhino: The Rise of a Warrior, April 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
Shadow Lab, November 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Hell Divers VIII, September 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Sons of War, February 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Sons of War 3: Sinners, February 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Sons of War 2: Saints, September 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Hell Divers VII, July 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Sons of War, May 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Extinction Age, August 2017
Mass Market Paperback
ORBS III: Redemption, August 2016
e-Book
ORBS II: Stranded, July 2016
Paperback / e-Book
Orbs I, June 2016
e-Book

RHINO: THE RISE OF A WARRIOR
By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Hell Divers
Blackstone Publishing
April 2025
On Sale: April 1, 2025
420 pages
ISBN: B0DKG94QZ7
EAN: 9798874816384
Kindle: B0DMR4KWWZ
Hardcover / e-Book
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Science Fiction | Dystopian

In the brutal wasteland centuries after the nuclear apocalypse, a warrior baptized in blood will defy the brutal empire that has enslaved his people.

Over two centuries have passed since the Third World War reduced civilization to ashes in a global nuclear inferno. Unforgiving geomagnetic storms rage, blocking out the sun and poisoning the radioactive Earth. Humanity clings to survival above the tempestuous skies in giant airships, sustained by Hell Divers—brave souls who risk their lives plunging to the surface for essential parts and supplies.

But this is not the story of the Hell Divers. This is the saga of the survivors on the ground, centered on Nick Baker, a frail orphan born in the perpetual darkness of an ITC bunker. He spent his early years toiling in a machine shop dreaming of what might be beyond the dark skies and poisoned wastes. That dream became a nightmare when Cazador raiders descended, massacring and enslaving his people.

From the savage cradle of life underground to the campaign of war across the brutalized surface, witness Nick’s rise from boy slave to a towering, fearsome warrior hell-bent on freeing his people from bondage to the great Cazador empire.

Embark on this riveting postapocalyptic adventure and discover the legend of a man his enemies will come to fear as Rhino …