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Hit the Beach

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They love to fight and live to kill!

Start with an insane sergeant with a genius for leadership and a lust for blood. Add a bank robber. A racketeer. A guy who goes berserk on the battlefield. A gun-happy Texan. A silent Apache. A movie stuntman who swings from trees. Put them all together and you have the killing machine known as… the Rat Bastards.

©1983 Len Levinson (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

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Question: How can a soldier fighting in the Battle of Guadalcanal, the first major Allied offensive against Japan in World War Two, keep a cigarette between his lips, his gun firing, and his mouth running a stream of profanities all at the same? Answer: He’s a Rat Bastard.

The Rat Bastards are the invention of Len Levinson, a story slinger with over 60 novels to his name, and Hit the Beach is the first installment in the Bastards series. For those who prefer action to contemplation, Hit the Beach is a nonstop party of mud, blood, and over-sized soldiers. Performed in a spirited and gruff but crystal-clear voice by American Shakespearean Ray Porter, Hit the Beach is a pulpy war thriller for the ear.
Fast-paced Action • Gritty Battlefield • Exceptional Character Voices • Vivid Storytelling • Exciting Plot

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Perfect narration. Porter is unparalleled in his ability to create different voices for different characters.

Story is profane, violent, and exciting. EXCELLENT PULP!

Gritty, violent, profane…GREAT FUN.

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great storytelling makes you feel like you are in the fox hole with franky and bannon

vivid story telling

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I expected nothing less than another great performance from Ray Porter and again he delivers a jaw dropping heart pumping narration. He was a perfect voice because of all of the character vocalization he accomplishes with seemingly little effort. Porter is a master of keeping the rhythm of the story moving the way I would think the author would want. I was thoroughly entertained by some of the voices he choose to use and some sounded familiar from other book he has narrated, not a bad thing at all. Ray Porter will continue to be one of my go to narrators, trusting that he can make a story more interesting than it might really be.

Ray Porter delivers

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I went into this with low expectations. Simply because I favor Fantasy and Sci-fi. Now I am about to buy Book 2 and looking forward to it. The narrator killed it. Really great job.

Not my usual genre. I was pleasantly surprised!

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Outstanding performance. Story of gritty battlefield in the jungles of Guadalcanal. Individual snapshots of variety of warriors. Intense

Bloody Confluence of Warfighting

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