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...

Sheriff Buck Rawlins was a hero … years ago. The next-to-last-thing he needed was a man like John Stone stopping a bank robbery single-handed, reminding folks what a real hero looked like. The last thing Rawlins needed was John Stone as his deputy.Now Stone is on the right side of the law, but the wrong side of the sheriff—with Deke Casey's outlaw gang gunning for him, it's a mighty dangerous place to be …Once, John Stone had everything a man could ever want: wealth, position...

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...

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.

Everyone tells Duane Braddock to stay out of Escondido. But a month alone in the desert, even with his 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 v...

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!

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...

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 suspici...

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 …

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 ...