Rats, Bats and Vats, Eric Flint
Rats, Bats and Vats, Eric Flint
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Rats, Bats and Vats

Author: Eric Flint, Dave Freer

Narrator: James Fouhey

Unabridged: 11 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/03/2020


Synopsis

Chip Connolly was a conscripted grunt in trouble. Here he was, stuck behind enemy lines with a bunch of cyber-uplifted rats and bats. Rats with human speech, but with rat values. Rats that knew what was worth fighting for: sex, food, and strong drink. True, they were holed up on a ruined wine-farm with enough brandy to swim in. Trouble was, there wasn't much food. And with shrew-metabolism the rats had to eat. He was next on the menu. The bats were no help: they were crazy revolutionaries planning to throw off the yoke of human enslavement with high explosive. As if that wasn't bad enough, there was the girl they'd rescued. Rich. Beautiful. With a passionate crush on her heroic rescuer. She came with added extras: a screwball Alien tutor, and a cyber-uplifted pet galagoa tiny little lemur-like-critter with a big mouth and delusions about being the worlds greatest lover.

So: he'd volunteered for a suicide mission. Of course things only got worse. The whole crew decided to come along. Seven rats, five bats, a galago, two humans, a sea-urchin-like alien and an elderly vineyard tractor without brakes . . . against several million inimical aliens. He was going to die. Mind you, not dying could be even more terrible. That girl might get him.

Contains mature themes.

About Eric Flint

Eric Flint is a modern master of alternate history fiction, with three million books in print. He's the author/creator of the multiple New York Times bestselling Ring of Fire series starting with the novel 1632. Flint was for many years a labor union activist. He lives near Chicago, Illinois.


Reviews

THIS BOOK WAS SO MUCH FUN!!! Huge thank you to my friend Star for recommending this title to read because it was nothing but sheer delight the whole time I listened to it. I did purchase the audiobook from Audible and narrator James Fouhey was so good with his voices, accents, and one liner deliverie......more

Goodreads review by Charles

Great, zany, military scify Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Rats, Bats and Vats ("Rats, Bats and Vats Series" Book 1) (Kindle Edition) This author knows the inept bureaucratic military corrupt political mind and all variations thereof. Also, the rich and powerful, the poor and powe......more

Grimly Hilarious The world is at war, and humanity is losing, badly. One group of fairly ordinary troops gets trapped behind enemy lines, and fight to survive. Add a kidnapped heiress and her escorts to the proletariat crew. The result is one of the finest action comedies in fiction. Recommend for ever......more