RESURRECTION EXPRESS by Stephen Romano

Finished Fr 5/3/13

'Resurrection' was a scheme in which women would be stockpiled after a nuclear war. Neutron bombs would be employed so that the radiation would last weeks instead of centuries.
David Hartman had the computer software that disguised 'Resurrection' which had been operating beneath the grid for decades.
Jayne Jennison head a Black Ops outfit that wanted to get Hartman out, and secure the plan.
Her daugher was Elroy Coffin's wife, and she was always on the 'Resurrection' team. Of course, Elroy was unaware.
Heather Stone was on the US force against 'Resurrection' and looked like Toni, Elroy's wife. She leaves with Elroy after the apocalypse is averted, and in the final scene, after they have been on the run, Jayne's team invades their house, but there is only an Ipad, and Elroy and Heather blow up the house, killing Jennison.
Texas Data Concepts- software outfit that wrote the computer programs and provides the cover.
Axl Gange-Elroy's mentor, and he meets a young woman fighting to defeat 'Resurrection' by the name of Bennet. She was raised by Axl as his daughter after her parents were killed. Axl is tortured and killed by Hartman, and Elroy was present. Elroy probably loved Bennet, and she is killed in a gunfight.
Kim Hammer is a transexual gang leader in Houston that Elroy uses to sell a government helicopter that he stole while escaping. Kim also arranges a doctor to take care of Bennet's wounds.
Bennet is part of a group assembled by Jennison to break into a vault to get the computer discs that run 'Resurrection'. When Elroy breaks in, the group, headed by Sarge, turn on them. They are killed and Elroy and Bennet escape in the helicopter. Elroy's father, Ringo, gives up his life on this operation.
Washington and Franklin are two federal agents working with Jennison. Washington is a black man who is killed. And, Franklin is a huge surfer type who nearly kills Elroy in the end. He crushes Elroy, and they convince him that he has lost the use of his legs. But, this is not true.
Elroy was nearly killed in a gunfight and has plates in his head. This clouded his real memories of Toni and when he thinks of her he smells roses and steel.

My post on Good Reads-

The book is extremely fast-paced with little realistic character development, yet the plot rockets along like greased lightning with a maximum of exploding ordnance  You can really tell that the author has a background in Fantasy and Horror as RESURRECTION EXPRESS is riddled with dead bodies and nearly impossible gun fights, and the 'bad guys' could just as easily been cast as 'zombies' rather than human beings. The plot line that drives the novel is nearly identical to the theme of DR. STRANGELOVE : OR HOW I STOPPED WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB. It definitely makes the grade if you don't mind rudimentary writing with a killer story, or to put it another way, a work of glorious 'sizzle', but without much 'steak'.