In order to write novels from the Russian point of view, K.N. Kostov was created. The series covered a group of the roughest, wildest band of fighting men ever to draw blood: The Gulag Rats. Fiction Novels as K.N. Kostov Punishment Battalion 333 Series Baptism of Blood – Arrow Books 1981 Blood on the Baltic – Arrow Books 1981 Cossack Attack – Arrow Books 1982 The Gulag Rats – Arrow Books 1981 The Steppe Wolves – Arrow Books 1981