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 …

John Stone didn't expect too much from the Texas range—just the chance he'd be reunited with the only woman he ever loved. But that was before he laid eyes on Cassandra Whiteside, the beautiful mistress of the Triangle Spur ranch ... and a dead ringer for his long-lost Marie.It doesn't take long for Stone to get on the bad side of the old colonel who calls the Triangle Spur and Cassandra his private property. And after a wild night of salooning, Stone adds a pair of scheming cowhand...

The platoon passed through the lines and the GI's looked at them in awe. The word had spread like wildfire across the island that one platoon had met the spearhead of the Japanese attack and beaten them back, got surrounded, and fought free. The soldiers looked at them and could see that they'd been through hell. They were ragged and bloody … and they looked ready to do it all again."Boy," said one young marine, gazing in admiration, "they look like one bunch of butchers, don't they...

It's John Stone's first cattle drive, and it won't be an easy ride—especially since he's travelling with a band of vagabonds and desperadoes. But he'd brave anything to get one step closer to the women he loved and lost ...The journey over the Chisholm Trail is even more dangerous than he expected. Menaced by rustlers, a Comanche war party and one man with an insatiable thirst for vengeance, Stone fears his first cattle drive could also be his last ...

THE FINAL BOOK IN THE SERIESThe burning quest that drives John Stone leads him to San Francisco—a crime-ridden city where he'll need more than his famed quick draw to keep himself alive. The trail of his long-lost Marie is hotter than ever—in more ways than one. What Stone learns about his woman sears through his soul like hot lead—and in the moment of Stone's weakness, a cold-hearted assassin pops up in his shadow. Stone's quest may end forever … in the silence of the grave …

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.

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 count...

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 fi...

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 j...

In the early stages of the encounter, Sunny Bear avoided fighting with blue coated soldiers. Who are my people, he wondered, pistol in hand, as his horse skittered nervously. What should I do with myself?He knew that he looked like an Apache, and it wouldn't be surprising if somebody tried to kill him. As predicted, a blue coated corporal appeared out of the gun smoke and dust, riding a chestnut gelding. The corporal spotted Sunny Bear, steered toward him, and lowered his pistol for...

It happened fast.One moment Nathanial Barrington was riding beside his old West Point friend Johnny Davidson, listening to Johnny's tale of romantic woe. The next, he saw an arrow sticking out of Johnny's chest.A second later, Johnny was forgotten. Bedlam had descended upon the detachment of dragoons. Gunshots volleyed around them, arrows zipped through the air, there were screams of pain and the whinnies of horses. Nathanial saw men hit all around him, and then it felt as if...

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.