As the Allied army's deadly fire rips the Nazis to shreds, maverick Sgt C. J. Mahoney and his kill-crazy sidekick Cranepool have drawn a sweet assignment: to spearhead the first infantry assault in the liberation of Paris. Champagne and girls to the victors! But ahead lies a suicidal road — twenty miles of enemy — where Panzer platoons stalk in murder raids; mines and snipers can blast a lifetime in a burst of flame. As time runs out, a vengeful group of Nazis race toward Paris with the ultimate human death weapon to carry out their blood-crazed Fuehrer's last command — destroy Paris! Only Mahoney can save the City of Light — its fate is up to him!

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...The Rat Bastards.

THE SEARCH BEGINSOnce, John Stone had everything a man could ever want: wealth, position, and a woman who loved him. But that was before the Civil War. Now he's lost his fortune, and his fiancee has disappeared. All he has left is his Colt, a picture of Marie, and a mission: to roam the West until he finds the woman he loves.HE IS THE SEARCHERThe settlers were on their way to a new life in Texas, while John Stone was stirring up the ashes of a life that died with the war. Still, he signed on to act as a scout for their wagon train. Maybe Marie had found her way to Texas. Maybe he'd find someone who'd seen her...John Stone wonders if he'll ever find peace. It's a good bet he won't find it on the way to Tucson ... not with a band of Mexican cut-throats after him, sworn to avenge the death of their vicious leader. And not while the desert is home to the marauding Apache ... Even if Stone can dodge the bullets and arrows, ahead lies the vast desert itself – more merciless than any...

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.

The world is their war zone! The war's never over for the battle-toughened Rat Bastards. From one jungle hell to another, they strike raw terror and drive razor-sharp bayonets into the heart of their enemies. Always in the thick of the fight, they hit hard and die harder. And when a new band of misfits joins their ranks, you can hear the panic buttons getting pushed all the way to Tokyo. The Rat Bastards. Turning losers into hell-bent heroes.

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...The Rat Bastards.

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 a gun, and is defenseless against the wiles of Wild West life, such as warm whiskey, wanton women, and screaming lead. But within forty-eight hours, Duane is feared by every gunman in the country as the notorious, quick-shooting, tough-riding, hard-loving Pecos Kid. Before the week is out, his victims include the town's best and worst: the richest man, the meanest gang, the fastest gun, the prettiest woman, and the greatest friend a lucky new cowboy ever had. How it all comes to pass is how real legends are born...

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.

On a well-deserved R & R, Sergeant C. J. Mahoney of Patton's Hammerhead Division heads straight for a hot bar in the freezing Belgian town of Clervaux. A few drinks, a knife fight over a woman, and Mahoney lands in a cell. But the worst of his tough-luck night comes when German bombs start ripping the town to shreds.Patton and Hitler have begun the biggest massacre of their wartime careers, a massive slaughter of fire and flesh that is rumbling toward its bloody finale in Bastogne. With death on his heels and a grenade in his teeth, Mahoney sprints from jail and slashes into the enemy troops with bayonets, bazookas and his eager bare hands—and the Sergeant won't rejoin his unit until he completes his one-man mission of annihilation that will be heard clear back to Berlin!

Everyone tells Duane Braddock to stay out of Escondido. But a month alone in the desert, even with his keen Apache-trained survival skills, is a month too long. He's just partial to trouble — and when he's hired to bring order to the outlaw town, there's plenty for the taking. Before the day is out, four bullies are dead and the cold-blooded killer responsible is just warming up for his real target — Braddock. Duane knows that the truth about his family and his past is at stake, sending him on a vengeance ride that will end in a hail of lightning quick lead.

Once, John Stone had everything a man could ever want: wealth, position and a woman who loved him. That was before the Civil War. Now he's lost his fortune and his fiancée has disappeared. With only his Colt, a picture of Marie and a mission – leaving him to roam the West until he finds the woman he loves. John Stone came to Dumont in search of his love. Instead, he found himself caught in the middle of a bloody war of revenge when Hank Dawon's son was found dead. Stone falls under suspicion – and he's about to find out what he will do to survive.

It is 1857. Under President James Buchanan, the battle lines for America's coming conflagration are being violently drawn. As the burning questions of slavery scorches the nation, another savage war takes shape in the West. In the far-off New Mexico territory, bluecoated soldiers hurl a challenge against the implacable Mimbreno Apaches: surrender or die. And in the Indians' ranks stands the brave called Sunny Bear-the powerful, blond-haired warrior and medicine man. Once his name was Nathanial Barrington, one of the finest officers in the United States Army. Now his visions guide him and his new tribe on daring raids against his former countrymen. Amid the smoke of battle and in desire's fiercest blaze, he must choose between the two proud peoples who fight for his loyalty and the two impassioned women who vie for his soul.

The First Battalion's final midnight barrage blows the Nazis off the banks of the Moselle, thanks to Sergeant C. J. Mahoney and his kill-crazy sidekick Cranepool. After an R&R of both pleasure and pain, the Sergeant itches for action — and action he gets when Patton launches a desperate offensive: seize the city of Metz, the key to the Siegfried Line! But enemy snipers, mortars and artillery are chewing up the advancing Third Army, and the Sergeant battles his way through the raining hell on a deadline do-or-die mission. With nothing but guts and grenades, Mahoney slips into the occupied city to destroy Hitler's inhuman weapon of mass slaughter — but first he has to survive the 'invisible' and bloodthirsty Nazi death squad! And if the Sergeant fails ... Patton fails!

FROM CIA AGENT TO MURDER SUSPECT!Butler was a top CIA man who criticized the agency too much—ultimately getting fired. The next day he was the prime suspect in a sensational murder case. Did the CIA frame him? Or did a foreign power want him to get rattled enough to give away Agency secrets? Butler wasn't going to wait to find out. Escaping to Mexico, where he kept a secret bank account, he got ready for a very pleasant temporary retirement. Unfortunately things weren't going to be that easy.

Bastard son of an outlaw and a whore, Duane Braddock was raised in a monastery and at 17, can't ride a horse, shoot a gun and is defenseless against warm whiskey, wanton women and screaming lead. But before the week is out, Duane is feared by every gunman in the county as the notorious 'Pecos Kid'. He did it with help from friends and enemies alike.