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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1983
  • Latest Book:
    March 2011
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Full Series List in Order

Rat Bastards

1 - Hit the Beach (Nov-1983)
2 - Death Squad (Nov-1983)
3 - River of Blood (Nov-1983)
4 - Meat Grinder Hill (Jan-1984)
5 - Down and Dirty (Mar-1984)
6 - Green Hell (May-1984)
7 - Too Mean To Die (Jul-1984)
8 - Hot Lead and Cold Steel (Sep-1984)
9 - Do or Die (Nov-1984)
10 - Kill Crazy (Jan-1985)
11 - Nightmare Alley (Mar-1985)
12 - Go for Broke (May-1985)
13 - Tough Guys Die Hard (Jul-1985)
14 - Suicide River (Sep-1985)
15 - Satan's Cage (Nov-1985)
16 - Go Down Fighting (Jan-1986)

Thorn Savage NYPD

1 - Manhattan South (Jul-2002)
2 - Manhattan North (Jul-2003)
3 - East Side (Jul-2004)
4 - West Side (Oct-2005)

Book List in Order: 23 titles



  • Friend or foe, stay out of their way!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. B...



  • 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...



  • 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. ...



  • 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 mi...



  • 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 ...



  • 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....



  • 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,...



  • 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 e...



  • 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...






  • The joy of killing.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. An army of death marches through bloody war zones looking to tear...



  • 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 b...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • The Japs 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 Japs are mounting a bold sneak attack designed to wipe out the Americans. But the Rat...



  • Only the winners survive! To the victor go no spoils in the bloody battle for New Guinea. This is the Rat Bastards’ kind of war. They don’t fight for glory, but for survival. Reluctant heroes and outlaw soldiers, they hate the steaming, Jap-fille...



  • 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-...



  • NYPD homicide detective sergeant Thornton Savage becomes the target of an Internal Affairs witch hunt and the target of an unknown and deadly enemy as he investigates a bizarre case involving the Russian mafia, a triple murder, adultery, a collector ...



  • While investigating the murder of a drug supplier, Detective Sergeant Thornton Savage, delving into a violent drug-world war, arrests Derek Ogden, a seemingly upstanding patron of the arts, who, in turn, unleashes a deadly campaign of vengeance again...



  • As New York City prepares for a much-heralded papal visit, a serial killer targets priests, and Detective Sergeant Thornton Savage, while trying to stop the killer before he strikes again, makes a shocking discovery that could topple the church. Orig...






  • The Rising of the Red Man is A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion. The 16th of March, 1885, was a charming day, and Louis David Riel, fanatic and rebellion-maker, was addressing a great general meeting of the half-breeds and Indians near Batoche on ...



  • In a Manhattan bar, two strangers pick up a soon-to-be-dead look-alike for one of them. After pulling off a flawless one-and-a-half million dollar insurance fraud, the perpetrators decide that one perfect scam deserves another. As Detective Sergeant ...



  • This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...



  • Title: Sinners Twain: a Romance of the Great Lone Land.

    Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions

    The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries hol...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Mackie has published 23 books.

John Mackie does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Sinners Twain, was published in March 2011.

The first book by John Mackie, Death Squad, was published in November 1983.

Yes. John Mackie has 2 series.