Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #702648 in Books
• Published on: 2001-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 448 pages

Review
". . . thoroughly enlivened with tweaked and twisted cliches, explosive military action, and plenty of interspecies banter to keep things fun". -- Locus

Synopsis
Trapped behind enemy lines with a group of cyber-enhanced rats and bats, Chip Connolly must rescue a damsel in distress, confront the unpleasant personalities of his rodent companions, and fend off an alien attack. Reprint.

Customer Reviews

Future world struggle against alien corporate interests!
'Rats, Bats and Vats' blasts off in a future world forgotten by the rest of the known human universe, the heros, a mixed species cyber-adjusted strikeforce, find themselves inextricably trapped behind enemy lines between a corrupt 'colonial' regime and the forces of great evil. In this case, a hive of multi-morphed arthropod-like aliens. There's a lot of double dealing and the usual sort of 'corporate' shenanigans, combat action, with the obligatory sex, recipes, and romance, but with a real twist in the tail as it turns out regarding the latter!

It's a classic story of 'human colonist struggle against aliens' but with a difference. There are a number of sub-plots twisted into the general story as the main plot gallops along. The turns in the story are unexpected, the characters real, and the action fast. It's a good read, I thoroughly enjoyed it (and the authors sense of humour!).

Didn't think much of the recipes though!

once more into the breech
I was not quite sure what to expect of this but having read and enjoyed the two Pyramid books I gave it a go. Although one has to suspend belief in places and the characters do seem to have some quite large blind spots it rushes along carrying the reader with it. I am looking forward to reading the sequal.