Hard-core war action series set during World War II in the South Pacific. Filled with brilliantly written battle scenes. The American platoon is made up of characters that you come to know very well throughout the series as ....

by LEN LEVINSON

#12: GO FOR BROKE

THEY'RE THE DEADLIEST KILLING MACHINE EVER TO BLAST THEIR WAY ACROSS THE SOUTH PACIFIC!

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, then roll flat the whole Jap army. For them, war isn't everything. It's the only thing.



Published June 01, 2025
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#11: NIGHTMARE ALLEY

Send them out on leave and they're a ragged bunch of losers who will tear any town apart.

Bring them back and they're the most efficient bloodletting machine the Japanese have ever faced.

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 to the Pacific war zone known as Nightmare Alley—the closest thing to Hell on Earth.

Eleventh in the explosive 16-book series!

Published April 01, 2025
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#10: KILL CRAZY

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.

A Japanese 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 hear the spine-curdling battle cry of the guys who kill their way to victory!

Tenth in the explosive 16-book series!

Published February 01, 2025
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#9: DO OR DIE

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 Japs and their plan to retake the bloody Pacific island of Bougainville.



Published December 01, 2024
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#8: HOT LEAD AND COLD STEEL

They're bad news wherever they go.

It was the first of August, 1943, and the Twenty-third Infantry Regiment moved west through the jungle of New Georgia. Slogging their way through steaming jungles choked with blood, heading for the main military objective on the island, the Japanese airfield on Munda Point.

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.

Nothing is more important to The Rat Bastards as winning.



Published October 01, 2024
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#7: TOO MEAN TO DIE

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 ...



Published August 01, 2024
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#6: GREEN HELL

Hell's First Team …

They crawl through the 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!



Published June 01, 2024
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#5: DOWN AND DIRTY

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 …



Published May 01, 2024
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#4: MEAT GRINDER HILL

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. 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 …



Published March 01, 2024
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"... Levinson knows how to keep a reader turning pages ..." Hank Brown, Two-Fisted Blogger

#3: RIVER OF BLOOD

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.



Published January 01, 2024
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#2: DEATH SQUAD

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.

When they're on their red meat rampage of terror, you'd better steer clear of The Rat Bastards!



Published November 01, 2023
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#1: HIT THE BEACH

They love to fight and live to kill!

Start with a genius sergeant with a lust for blood. Add a bank robber. A racketeer. A minister who goes berserk on the battlefield. A gun-happy Texan. A silent Apache. A movie stuntman who swings from the trees. Put them together to create the deadliest killing machine to blast their way across the South Pacific.

First in the gung-ho action series by Len Levinson (writing as John Mackie).

Published September 01, 2023
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