The Sergeant Series

“If the Sergeant doesn’t stop those trains, D-Day goes down the drain!” The speaker was Colonel Fairbairn, special OSS advisor to General Omar Bradley, at a tense meeting of SHAEF only days before the planned Normandy invasion. Thus began yet another do-or-die mission of the man called The Sergeant – C. J. Mahoney (Code Name: Parrot), a big, brawling career G.I. Mahoney was an almost perfect killing machine with an incredible knack for languages ... and the Army’s heavyweight champion foul-up. His assignment was to stop the personnel and supply trains crafty General Erwin Rommel had lined up to checkmate the assault he knew would come on Omaha Beach. His first try failed when a key bridge wouldn’t blow. Now, with Gestapo Colonel Richter on his trail, it’s last-chance time as Mahoney and a handful of maquis steal an explosives-laden train and head for a fateful rendezvous in a tunnel of death!

Cherbourg Harbor was the key to the success of the D-Day offensive. If the Allied Forces were denied it as a port of entry for vital armaments and supplies, their campaign would be strangled to death by starvation or Wehrmacht counter-attack. They dragged the man they called The Sergeant -- C. J. Mahoney, code-name: Parrot -- a rough, tough son-of-a-gun, fresh from the hospital and a wild affair with a virginal young nurse, back to the battlefront to save the harbor. His assignment was simple: with five men, break into an impregnable Nazi fortress guarded by a regiment. Then disarm the detonators that would blow Cherbourg Harbor -- and the Sergeant -- to hell and gone ...

July 1944, Normandy, France. Maverick 'troublemaker' Sgt C. J. Mahoney and his kill-crazy sidekick, Cranepool, seem to draw all the assignments nobody else can handle. This time, they're sent to bail out Charlie Company of the First Battalion, Fifteenth Infantry Regiment, which is about to be torn to pieces by the deadly Panzer units in Normandy's savage Battle of the Hedgerows. It's Mahoney's deadliest test, as he must struggle against his own yen for girls, brawls and good times, not to mention an implacable German military genius--and a vengeful Yank commander who wants to see the Sergeant's hide hung up on the 'bloody bush' of the Hedgerows. Third in the all-action War series written by Len Levinson writing as Gordon Davis.

As the Allied army's deadly fire rips the Nazis to shreds, maverick Sgt C. J. Mahoney and his kill-crazy sidekick Cranepool have drawn a sweet assignment: to spearhead the first infantry assault in the liberation of Paris. Champagne and girls to the victors! But ahead lies a suicidal road -- twenty miles of enemy -- where Panzer platoons stalk in murder raids; mines and snipers can blast a lifetime in a burst of flame. As time runs out, a vengeful group of Nazis race toward Paris with the ultimate human death weapon to carry out their blood-crazed Fuehrer's last command -- destroy Paris! Only Mahoney can save the City of Light -- its fate is up to him!

The First Battalion’s final midnight barrage blows the Nazis off the banks of the Moselle, thanks to Sergeant C. J. Mahoney and his kill-crazy sidekick Cranepool. After an R&R of both pleasure and pain, the Sergeant itches for action -- and action he gets when Patton launches a desperate offensive: seize the city of Metz, the key to the Siegfried Line! But enemy snipers, mortars and artillery are chewing up the advancing Third Army, and the Sergeant battles his way through the raining hell on a deadline do-or-die mission. With nothing but guts and grenades, Mahoney slips into the occupied city to destroy Hitler's inhuman weapon of mass slaughter -- but first he has to survive the 'invisible' and bloodthirsty Nazi death squad! And if the Sergeant fails ... Patton fails!

Bloody Metz is behind them, and Hammerhead Division of Patton's Third Army is dug in. At midnight, Sgt C. J. Mahoney hears enemy tanks -- surprise attack! An entire German Panzer division blasts through the fog and begins butchering the American troops. Mahoney rips into the Nazis with bayonet and bazooka, until silence sweeps over the slaughter. Soon, Hammerhead is ordered to take the bridge leading into Saarlautern, gateway to the Siegfried Line -- but the Sergeant knows the Germans are prepared to tear them to shreds. Kissing off orders, Mahoney and his kill-crazy sidekick Cranepool head straight down the Nazis' throats on a two-man suicide mission that will either capture the bridge, or wipe out Hammerhead!

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 counterattacking and no support from his buddies. With the enemy coming right down his throat and the river of doom at his back, the Sergeant knows that the choices are fight or run. Both mean death and with death that close, if Mahoney goes down, it’ll be in a pile of dead Nazis!

On a well-deserved R & R, Sergeant C. J. Mahoney of Patton’s Hammerhead Division heads straight for a hot bar in the freezing Belgian town of Clervaux. A few drinks, a knife fight over a woman, and Mahoney lands in a cell. But the worst of his tough-luck night comes when German bombs start ripping the town to shreds. Patton and Hitler have begun the biggest massacre of their wartime careers, a massive slaughter of fire and flesh that is rumbling toward its bloody finale in Bastogne. With death on his heels and a grenade in his teeth, Mahoney sprints from jail and slashes into the enemy troops with bayonets, bazookas and his eager bare hands—and the Sergeant won’t rejoin his unit until he completes his one-man mission of annihilation that will be heard clear back to Berlin!

Fresh from the slaughter at Bastogne, Sgt. C.J. Mahoney rejoins Charlie Company of Patton’s Hammerhead Division. His new commander is glory-seeking Lt. Woodward, a stiff-spined West Pointer who wields his rank like a bullwhip—all of it stinging Mahoney’s hide. Just as the Sergeant is about to rearrange his new superior officer’s baby face, German bullets and grenades burst through the heavy snowfall. Slicing his way through the blood and guts of no-man’s-land with his kill-crazy sidekick Cranepool, Mahoney is singled out by Woodward for a volley of arrogant abuse. Burning at both ends, the Sergeant blasts hell at Hitler’s advancing troops, saving the entire company from oblivion. Mahoney is up for the Silver Star—but first he vows to settle the score with a particular backstabbing lieutenant!