Len Levinson
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Cutthroat Comancheros, wandering banditos, the Mexican Army, the Fourth Cavalry-and Miss Vanessa Fontaine-all want Duane Braddock, who has the fastest gun in the West and much more than a price on his head. But it is the Apaches who leave him for dead in the Coahuilian Desert. Found by a ragtag outlaw band led by an ex-Confederate soldier, Braddock is brought back to the land of the living. By the time he is well enough to run, a greedy plan to seize...
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The Japs are staging a surprise attack.
But a bigger, bloodier surprise is waiting for them! Whoever controls New Guinea can turn the tide of the war. That's why the Japs are mounting a bold sneak attack designed to wipe out the Americans. But the Rat Bastards know when and where the enemy plans to strike. Can they quit thrill-hunting and fighting each other long enough to become the killer combat the Yanks need to survive?
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They're on the rampage!
They're bad news wherever they go. Slogging their way through steaming jungles choked with blood. Digging out from the stone-cold tunnels of an underground tomb. To them, death is just a sick joke-a joke played on anyone dumb enough to stand in their way. The Rat Bastards. Nothing is more important to them than winning.
Originally published under the pen name John Mackie
4) Desert Hawks
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The year was 1846, and the great American Southwest was the prize in an epic conflict. The US Army and the army of Mexico met in a battle that would shape the course of history, while the legendary Apache warrior chief Mangas Coloradas looked on, determined to defend his ancestral lands and age-old tribal traditions against either of the invaders or both.
On this bloody battlefield young Lieutenant Nathanial Barrington faced his first great test of...
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The Rat Bastards face the deadliest battle of all as the war draws to an explosive end. The Japanese launch a final, desperate attack-a blood-hungry suicide mission. And the Rat Bastards finally meet their match. Kicking, clawing, shooting, stabbing-whatever it takes to kill the battle-crazed enemy-the Rat Bastards will do it. The tougher the opposition, the harder the Rat Bastards fight back. And the deadliest group of killers in the world-with one...
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He killed before he could shoot, kissed before he could love, won before he could lose. He was too green to live, too lucky to die. He was a natural, born to be a legend. Beginner's Luck. Bastard son of an outlaw and a whore, handsome Duane Braddock, seventeen, stumbles off the stage into lawless Titusville and gets his first look at the real world just before he's robbed. Two weeks out of the monastery that raised him, Duane can't ride a horse, shoot...
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Hell's Choir of Killers!
The quiet of the jungle is shattered by a single command. The air fills with voices of death. A Texas cattle call. An Apache war whoop. A piercing scream of bloody blue murder. And a killing chorus of zinging hot lead. A mighty green wave surges up the hill. The Rat Bastards are on the rampage, and what the enemy began, they are about to finish.
Originally published under the pen name John Mackie
"Never pick a fight with a...
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Kamikaze Kill Sweep! The Rat Bastards face the deadliest battle of all as the war draws to an explosive end. The Japanese launch a final, desperate attack a blood-hungry suicide mission. And the Rat Bastards finally meet their match. Kicking, clawing, shooting, stabbing-whatever it takes to kill the battle-crazed enemy-the Rat Bastards will do it. The tougher the opposition, the harder the Rat Bastards fight back.
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9) Apache Moon
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Everyone in town says Braddock is innocent. Two men are dead at the Bar T Ranch: a clear case of self-defense. But an angry Army officer has personal reasons for pressing charges and Braddock is on the run, headed for Mexico with marriage on his mind and high-spirited Phyllis at his side. Between Mexico and freedom lays treacherous Apache land. It could spell cruel death. For Braddock, it becomes a haven-a place to discover a priceless piece of his...
10) Bad to the Bone
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On the dodge south of the border, Duane Braddock lands in a luxurious Mexican hacienda, where he befriends a powerful nobleman's lonely wife. It's only a matter of time before hot lead starts flying, especially when American bounty hunters are closing in on the Pecos Kid, Apache have been seen in the vicinity, and his former great love, Miss Vanessa Fontaine, is hot on his trail. But Duane Braddock is eighteen years old, and thinks he can handle anything....
11) Too Mean to Die
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Fighting is the easiest part of war!
No one-friend or foe-wants to take on this band of marauders. After all, they don't call them the Rat Bastards for nothing. But now this bunch of mavericks, once welded together into a crack fighting unit, is coming unstuck between battles. It'll take the music of gunfire to bring the grimy gang back to life. And blood is the only life they know.
Originally published under the pen name John Mackie
12) The Reckoning
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Running from an angry town, Duane Braddock takes a job as a cowhand at the Bar T Ranch hoping to settle down. But two things stand in the way: the son of a neighboring rancher who wants him dead and a ruthless Army officer who wants his fiancé. Duane could have handled these two men if they hadn't found out why he'd left Titusville. And if he hadn't fallen in love with another woman, things would have worked out okay. But now Braddock's reputation...
13) Green Hell
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Hell's First Team!
They crawl through jungle. Claw through caves. Slog through swamps. Nothing can stop them. And every moment their minds are dominated by a single thought: kill, or die. They take the impossible jobs no ordinary outfit will touch. Because these aren't ordinary men. They're the toughest team in the Pacific War, the one the enemy fears most.
14) Death Squad
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Friend or foe, stay out of their way!
Malaria can't slow them down. A stockade can't keep them penned up. Tanks can't stop them. They're the most blood-hungry platoon of killers in the jungle. The enemy fears them. Their own army hates them. But friend or foe, when they're on their red-meat rampage of terror, you'd better steer clear of the Rat Bastards.
Originally published under the pen name John Mackie
15) River of Blood
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If war is hell, these guys would hate heaven!
When you want to win a battle, you get real men. When you want to win a war, you get the Rat Bastards. When they're not fighting among themselves, they're tearing raw, living chunks out of the enemy. Nothing-not death lurking in the jungle, not the wrath of a raging river-can stop the killer squad they call ... the Rat Bastards.
16) Nightmare Alley
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War brings them to life!
Send them out on leave and they're a ragged band of losers who will tear any town apart. Bring them back and they're the most effective bloodletting machine the Japanese have ever had to face. The Rat Bastards. The Mps can't bust them because the Army needs them to win the war. This time they're faced with their bloodiest challenge ever, as the brass sends them on a trip to the closest thing to hell on earth-the Pacific war...
17) Go for Broke
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The twisted trail of blood!
Slicing and stabbing hand-to-hand for the bloody booty of war. Ramming a hijacked truck through the hell of enemy lines. Escaping over water made choppy by hot Japanese bullets. Defending a cave full of frightened American nurses from a brutal onslaught of killers. The Rat Bastards fight on, turning New Guinea into an island of savage slaughter. They'll take on their own top brass, ten roll flat the whole Jap army. For...
18) War Eagles
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In the North, a lanky lawyer named Abraham Lincoln was recovering from a brutal political setback. In the South, eloquent US Senator Jefferson Davis was risking all in a race for governor of his native Mississippi. And far to the Southwest, the future of the frontier was being decided as the US Army, under Colonel Bull Moose Sumner, faced the growing alliance of Native Americans led by the great Mangas Coloradas and determined to defend their ancestral...
19) Down and Dirty
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Death is what life is all about!
It's hot in the jungle. And with the Rat Bastards, what's hot becomes sheer hell. Prison can slow them down. Women can make them happy. But it's killing that keeps them going. In the jungle, every shadow, every noise can mean friend-or foe. They shoot first and ask questions never. For them, the war is always just beginning ...
Originally published under the pen name John Mackie
20) Kill Crazy
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The joy of killing.
The enemy's plotting against them-while they're tearing at each other's throats! Malaria could lay them on their backs. Jungle fever threatens to strip their sanity. An army of death marches through bloody war zones looking to tear their guts out. But over the roar of grenades and the swish of Samurai swords you can always hear the spine-curdling battle cry of the guys who kill their way to victory ... the Rat Bastards.
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