Bloody Metz is behind them, and Hammerhead Division of Patton's Third Army is dug in. At midnight, Sgt C. J. Mahoney hears enemy tanks — surprise attack! An entire German Panzer division blasts through the fog and begins butchering the American troops. Mahoney rips into the Nazis with bayonet and bazooka, until silence sweeps over the slaughter. Soon, Hammerhead is ordered to take the bridge leading into Saarlautern, gateway to the Siegfried Line — but the Sergeant knows the Germans are prepared to tear them to shreds. Kissing off orders, Mahoney and his kill-crazy sidekick Cranepool head straight down the Nazis' throats on a two-man suicide mission that will either capture the bridge, or wipe out Hammerhead!

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...The Rat Bastards.

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 zone known as Nightmare Alley.

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 them, war isn't everything. It's the only thing. The Rat Bastards.

Fresh from the liberation of Paris, Sgt C. J. Mahoney hits the ground running in Patton's bloody assault on the Moselle River. With German guns selling death wholesale, it's Mahoney and his kill-crazy sidekick, Cranepool, swimming right into the teeth of the flying bullets. Destroying Nazis is easy meat when the brass let you go your own route. But this time Patton has played the wrong hand and the Sergeant is stuck on the wrong side of the river with the shells whistling, the Krauts counterattacking and no support from his buddies. With the enemy coming right down his throat and the river of doom at his back, the Sergeant knows that the choices are fight or run. Both mean death and with death that close, if Mahoney goes down, it'll be in a pile of dead Nazis!

Once, 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 fiancée 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. After a near-fatal attack by a band of outlaws led by an old friend of his, John Stone is brought back to the outlaws' hideout, where Sally Drake nurses him back to health, while her jealous boyfriend decides Stone doesn't deserve the chance to recover.

Lodestone prides itself on being the fastest-growing town in Colorado, but John Stone knows a con game when he sees one. And this is a con the size of the Rockies. The low-down varmints running the scam don't want to see him meddling—they'd rather see him dead. Stone's dodging bullets...and getting ready to fight back. Once, 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 fiancée 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.

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 heritage. But a relentless sense of duty and a fat bounty to bring Phyllis home spur on Marshall Dan Stowe to smoke the Pecos Kid out. And before he knows it, Braddock is alone, riding for the border and a shootout that will brand him an outlaw forever or leave him stone-cold dead.

PULP HEAVEN is proud to present THE COLLECTED PULP FICTION OF LEN LEVINSON, beginning with a taut, no-holds-barred hunt for a vicious serial killer originally published in 1981: WITHOUT MERCY Cynthia Doyle worked in the flesh trade in New York’s Times Square, the sex capital of the world. Bodies were her business, massages were her medium … and death was her destiny.Cynthia met all types in her trade. There were married men, dying for the novelty of another woman’s body. Lonely men, dying for a woman’s company. And there were just a few weirdoes dying to get their hands around a woman’s throat.Usually Cynthia could weed out the weirdoes from her serious customers. But one night when she left the Crown Club, she didn’t realize she had made one deadly mistake, one that left her in a dead end alley, without defense, facing a dangerous man … without mercy. THE AUTHOR Hailed as a ‘trash genius’, Len Levinson was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, served on active duty in the U.S. Army from 1954-1957, and graduated from Michigan State University with a BA in Social Science. He relocated to NYC that year and worked as an advertising copywriter and public relations executive before becoming a full-time novelist. Len created and wrote a number of series, including The Apache Wars Saga, The Pecos Kid and The Rat Bastards. He has had over eighty titles published, and PP is delighted to have the opportunity to issue his exceptional WWII series, The Sergeant in digital form. After many years in NYC, Len moved to a small town (pop. 3100) in rural Illinois, where he is now surrounded by corn and soybean fields ... a peaceful, ideal location for a writer.

Death is in their blood! The enemy wants them dead. Their own side wants them to shape up. They're the Rat Bastards. They steal. Lie. Kill. And they never respect the rules. The stuntman. The Indian. The gangster. The bum. The most awesomely effective fighting team in the history of man-to-man mayhem. And now they're all that stands between the Japanese and their plan to retake the bloody Pacific island of Bougainville. The Rat Bastards!

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. And the deadliest group of killers in the world-with one exception...The Rat Bastards.

July 1944, Normandy, France. Maverick 'troublemaker' Sgt C. J. Mahoney and his kill-crazy sidekick, Cranepool, seem to draw all the assignments nobody else can handle. This time, they're sent to bail out Charlie Company of the First Battalion, Fifteenth Infantry Regiment, which is about to be torn to pieces by the deadly Panzer units in Normandy's savage Battle of the Hedgerows.It's Mahoney's deadliest test, as he must struggle against his own yen for girls, brawls and good times, not to mention an implacable German military genius—and a vengeful Yank commander who wants to see the Sergeant's hide hung up on the 'bloody bush' of the Hedgerows.Third in the all-action War series written by Len Levinson writing as Gordon Davis.

Driving three thousand head of Cassandra Whiteside's cattle into a town called Sundust, John Stone expected the usual gunplay with rustlers and bandits. But this time Stone collects double rations of deep trouble—and he'll need more than a fast draw to get out of Sundust alive.Two long-riding gunslingers, driven by a burning hatred of John Stone, share a single ambition; to bury Stone beneath the dry sod of Sundust ... or die trying.

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...The Rat Bastards.

The Japanese 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 Japanese 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 until the Yanks need to survive? The Rat Bastards.