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Rat Patrol Book 2: The Rat Patrol #2 in Desert Danger by David King
Book two of the series. Books two through six have a different author from book one.
Chapter 1
Hitch and Moffitt are in one jeep, Troy and Tully are in the other.
They’re being sent to rescue their commanding officer and they’re not happy about it; Troy calls him a “fathead”.
They detect mines by shooting at them.
Troy calls their missions “capers”.
Dietrich is describes as having “a pointed and stern but rather handsome face.”
Chapter 2
Tully drives backwards through the minefield when they’re making a path.
Chapter 3
Hitch dropped out of school, apparently.
Hitch kills a guy with a noose he keeps on him.
Moffitt can imitate a Cockney accent.
Page 34 and Troy get’s a kiss.
Poor Tully, stuck in the hall, not getting kissed.
He shows up in the room and knows what’s going on instantly.
And he immediately lies down on the bed to sleep.
They have to move to another room and Tully says “Sorry if I got in the way of things, Sarge.”
Chapter 4
There are a lot of sentences in this book where I would put commas, but there aren’t any.
Hitch called Moffitt “Doc”.
“lizzard“? Really? Nice typo.
Dietrich is twenty seven.
Dietrich has a mahogany table.
Dietrich contemplates getting the Iron Cross. “Although, Dietrich admitted privately, he would prefer the honor were bestowed by one of the old-line generals.” (Instead of Hitler)
The girl Troy kissed is a German officer’s girlfriend. Good job.
Chapter 5 (or 15, in the book. this really could be edited better)
They grab the girl, Colette, and she bites them and Troy hits her hard enough to knock her out. The Rat Patrol does not fuck around.
Troy can mostly tell what Dietrich sounds like in the dark, on the other side of a wall. And he imagines what Dietrich is saying in German.
Troy lets Tully hit his head on a wall in revenge for cockblocking him.
The dialogue is pretty snappy, at least.
Hitch was apparently a “renegade, don’t-give-a-damn, school bad-boy”
Dietrich’s been hollering so much he’s losing his voice.
(I apparently missed chapter 6, IDK)
Chapter 7
“Wilson was sleeping with his head on Tully’s shoulder” That’s kind of cute.
“If they’d found us, I was going to slit Wilson’s throat so he couldn’t tell them nothing.” And that’s not cute at all. Tully is cold sometimes.
Troy’s got gold coins. I assume from the military.
Chapter 8
Moffitt and his father are blood brothers with a sheik and his son. Moffitt has the name “Hamam Gameel.”
Moffitt and his father were tortured once.
Moffitt has a birthmark on his shoulder that is a “sign of good fortune”.
“Must I shoot all my guards to establish security within my own headquarters?” WTF, Dietrich, you’re usually more even-keeled than this. Get some sleep.
Dietrich bandages Troy’s wound when he captures him.
“I’m far too soft” Dietrich says, about roughing up Troy to get him to talk.
Dietrich knows Troy’s name, but not Tully’s.
Chapter 9
“The explosive, high speed action in dozens of capers all over the desert had provided him with a stimulation he had never experienced before.” Troy likes the “stimulation,” huh?
“If Wilson were taken alive, Troy would have to strange him with his bare hands.” Understandable, but still. This book is kind of grittier than the show.
Wilson wasn’t aware that they would kill him before they'd let him be captured. Odd.
“wigwagged“? what does that mean?
Dietrich doesn’t approve of torture and tries to talk to Troy as equals.
Hitch and Moffitt must have disguised their voiced when they were rescuing Troy, Tully, and Wilson, since Troy and Tully don’t recognize them.
Chapter 10
Dietrich gets woken up by a massive explosion.
He has to run back to his room to put on clothes. Was he sleeping in the nude and just ran out to check things out naked? Or in his underwear? (Here I am, asking the important questions)
“screached”
Dietrich doesn’t seem to know Moffitt and Hitch’s names, either.
“An Arab bent over Dietrich’s body and lifted him by the collar.
‘No!’ Troy yelled, pushing the Arab off, shaking his head and repeating, ‘No!’ He pointed to Dietrich and then himself. ‘Mine. Mine.’” Sometimes the fic writes itself.
Now they have Dietrich bound and captured. Why didn’t that ever happen in the show?
Chapter 11
“After all this was over, with the future holding no more than a possible chair in anthropology, returning to Cambridge was going to be a bit stuffy.”
The Rats give Dietrich some food and he gives them cigarettes.
Moffitt spent all night crawling through the minefield.
Chapter 12
“this crazy American in steel-rimmed glasses who thought he was a pilot”
“Ach, this Rat Patrol was a bother, a plague!”
They tie Dietrich to a tree.
“He started to say something but decided against it. Tully was already sulking.”
Chapter 13
A dozen German soldiers actually survive an encounter with the Rat Patrol! Five of them are wounded, but still.
Now Troy’s hauling Dietrich around on a rope.
This really is the Hans Dietrich bondage hour.
“Let go quick or you’ll blow your wad.” Troy’s talking about shooting a gun, but…
“‘Forgive me, big baby,’ he murmured. It had been a brief love affair with the MG42, a damn punk kid who had given him the eye.” He’s talking to the Browning. About the German gun he stole.
Chapter 14
“‘You say a word,’ Troy told him and grinned, ‘and I’ll lock up your britches too.’ He’s talking to Dietrich. Sometimes their flirtation gets obvious.
“this is Rommel’s Africa and apparently our friend Hauptmann Dietrich is his fair-haired boy”.
Now it’s raining and they’re all getting wet.
Chapter 15
“‘Shall I pinch the Jerry’s butt?’ Tully called.” This is about Dietrich.
Troy’s response to the above: “Only if you’re feeling amorous.”
“The German officer’s lips had been pressed tight in anger but gradually a smile tugged them apart.”
Chapter 16
“handling it [the machine gun] without a mount would have been like wrestling a boa constrictor with bare hands”
Dietrich finally freed himself.
And he ends up stuck without gas not much later.
Chapter 17
“The pilot was leaning over the side and stuffing Dietrich into the plane, literally stuffing him into the space behind the single place.”
Chapter 18
Dietrich “felt like a porpoise stuffed in a goldfish bowl under the glass canopy of the Stuka.”
“It was just that, well, there was this Rat Patrol.”
The non-regulation headgear actually comes up as a plot point.
And the Rat Patrol ends their adventure by going out dancing and drinking.
Moffitt’s a Doctor of Anthropology
They’re all happy Dietrich escaped!
Chapter 1
Hitch and Moffitt are in one jeep, Troy and Tully are in the other.
They’re being sent to rescue their commanding officer and they’re not happy about it; Troy calls him a “fathead”.
They detect mines by shooting at them.
Troy calls their missions “capers”.
Dietrich is describes as having “a pointed and stern but rather handsome face.”
Chapter 2
Tully drives backwards through the minefield when they’re making a path.
Chapter 3
Hitch dropped out of school, apparently.
Hitch kills a guy with a noose he keeps on him.
Moffitt can imitate a Cockney accent.
Page 34 and Troy get’s a kiss.
Poor Tully, stuck in the hall, not getting kissed.
He shows up in the room and knows what’s going on instantly.
And he immediately lies down on the bed to sleep.
They have to move to another room and Tully says “Sorry if I got in the way of things, Sarge.”
Chapter 4
There are a lot of sentences in this book where I would put commas, but there aren’t any.
Hitch called Moffitt “Doc”.
“lizzard“? Really? Nice typo.
Dietrich is twenty seven.
Dietrich has a mahogany table.
Dietrich contemplates getting the Iron Cross. “Although, Dietrich admitted privately, he would prefer the honor were bestowed by one of the old-line generals.” (Instead of Hitler)
The girl Troy kissed is a German officer’s girlfriend. Good job.
Chapter 5 (or 15, in the book. this really could be edited better)
They grab the girl, Colette, and she bites them and Troy hits her hard enough to knock her out. The Rat Patrol does not fuck around.
Troy can mostly tell what Dietrich sounds like in the dark, on the other side of a wall. And he imagines what Dietrich is saying in German.
Troy lets Tully hit his head on a wall in revenge for cockblocking him.
The dialogue is pretty snappy, at least.
Hitch was apparently a “renegade, don’t-give-a-damn, school bad-boy”
Dietrich’s been hollering so much he’s losing his voice.
(I apparently missed chapter 6, IDK)
Chapter 7
“Wilson was sleeping with his head on Tully’s shoulder” That’s kind of cute.
“If they’d found us, I was going to slit Wilson’s throat so he couldn’t tell them nothing.” And that’s not cute at all. Tully is cold sometimes.
Troy’s got gold coins. I assume from the military.
Chapter 8
Moffitt and his father are blood brothers with a sheik and his son. Moffitt has the name “Hamam Gameel.”
Moffitt and his father were tortured once.
Moffitt has a birthmark on his shoulder that is a “sign of good fortune”.
“Must I shoot all my guards to establish security within my own headquarters?” WTF, Dietrich, you’re usually more even-keeled than this. Get some sleep.
Dietrich bandages Troy’s wound when he captures him.
“I’m far too soft” Dietrich says, about roughing up Troy to get him to talk.
Dietrich knows Troy’s name, but not Tully’s.
Chapter 9
“The explosive, high speed action in dozens of capers all over the desert had provided him with a stimulation he had never experienced before.” Troy likes the “stimulation,” huh?
“If Wilson were taken alive, Troy would have to strange him with his bare hands.” Understandable, but still. This book is kind of grittier than the show.
Wilson wasn’t aware that they would kill him before they'd let him be captured. Odd.
“wigwagged“? what does that mean?
Dietrich doesn’t approve of torture and tries to talk to Troy as equals.
Hitch and Moffitt must have disguised their voiced when they were rescuing Troy, Tully, and Wilson, since Troy and Tully don’t recognize them.
Chapter 10
Dietrich gets woken up by a massive explosion.
He has to run back to his room to put on clothes. Was he sleeping in the nude and just ran out to check things out naked? Or in his underwear? (Here I am, asking the important questions)
“screached”
Dietrich doesn’t seem to know Moffitt and Hitch’s names, either.
“An Arab bent over Dietrich’s body and lifted him by the collar.
‘No!’ Troy yelled, pushing the Arab off, shaking his head and repeating, ‘No!’ He pointed to Dietrich and then himself. ‘Mine. Mine.’” Sometimes the fic writes itself.
Now they have Dietrich bound and captured. Why didn’t that ever happen in the show?
Chapter 11
“After all this was over, with the future holding no more than a possible chair in anthropology, returning to Cambridge was going to be a bit stuffy.”
The Rats give Dietrich some food and he gives them cigarettes.
Moffitt spent all night crawling through the minefield.
Chapter 12
“this crazy American in steel-rimmed glasses who thought he was a pilot”
“Ach, this Rat Patrol was a bother, a plague!”
They tie Dietrich to a tree.
“He started to say something but decided against it. Tully was already sulking.”
Chapter 13
A dozen German soldiers actually survive an encounter with the Rat Patrol! Five of them are wounded, but still.
Now Troy’s hauling Dietrich around on a rope.
This really is the Hans Dietrich bondage hour.
“Let go quick or you’ll blow your wad.” Troy’s talking about shooting a gun, but…
“‘Forgive me, big baby,’ he murmured. It had been a brief love affair with the MG42, a damn punk kid who had given him the eye.” He’s talking to the Browning. About the German gun he stole.
Chapter 14
“‘You say a word,’ Troy told him and grinned, ‘and I’ll lock up your britches too.’ He’s talking to Dietrich. Sometimes their flirtation gets obvious.
“this is Rommel’s Africa and apparently our friend Hauptmann Dietrich is his fair-haired boy”.
Now it’s raining and they’re all getting wet.
Chapter 15
“‘Shall I pinch the Jerry’s butt?’ Tully called.” This is about Dietrich.
Troy’s response to the above: “Only if you’re feeling amorous.”
“The German officer’s lips had been pressed tight in anger but gradually a smile tugged them apart.”
Chapter 16
“handling it [the machine gun] without a mount would have been like wrestling a boa constrictor with bare hands”
Dietrich finally freed himself.
And he ends up stuck without gas not much later.
Chapter 17
“The pilot was leaning over the side and stuffing Dietrich into the plane, literally stuffing him into the space behind the single place.”
Chapter 18
Dietrich “felt like a porpoise stuffed in a goldfish bowl under the glass canopy of the Stuka.”
“It was just that, well, there was this Rat Patrol.”
The non-regulation headgear actually comes up as a plot point.
And the Rat Patrol ends their adventure by going out dancing and drinking.
Moffitt’s a Doctor of Anthropology
They’re all happy Dietrich escaped!