Search And Destroy

Phoenix Force

by Gar Wilson

American mercenaries turned hired killers, Remsberg's Raiders will do any dirty work for a price. The Philippines are a powder keg - easy pickings for the renegade soldiers hired by Soviet-backed rebels to assassinate President Corazon Aquino. Running interference for the locals, a KGB terror squad prepares to deal with opposition to the coup.

Phoenix Force becomes the choice of action in the ongoing U.S. effort to preserve democracy and avert political disaster in the Philippines. The hard-hitting combat specialists cut through the maze of deception and sellout to expose the real conspiracy of control and infiltration.

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Phoenix Force is a series of action-adventure novels first published in 1982 by American Gold Eagle publishers. It is a spin-off of the Executioner series created by Don Pendleton.

Phoenix Force is one of two neutralization teams working for Stony Man, a top-secret anti-terrorist organization. As with The Executioner, the Phoenix Force novels have been written by a succession of authors under the pseudonym Gar Wilson. In 1991, Gold Eagle combined Phoenix Force with another Executioner spin-off series, Able Team, and launched the Stony Man book series, which is still being published as of 2005.

Reviews

[Wayne · Rating 3 out of 5]

One of those "double long" books in the series. This comes in at 347 pages. Yes, it has the action that you would expect from The Phoenix Force books. It just drags on from time to time with useless padding. The author would of been better suited to write a 180 or so novel in this genre.

The Force is in The Philippines. The are trying to head off a plot against the president by communist insurgents. The KGB hires a group of rouge American mercenaries to start the ball rolling. Old friends and enemies are back from past books to add to the plot. It would of been a lot better if the outlaw mercs had more to do in this. They were relegated mostly to the end.

[Jason Mussett · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad. The extra pages was obviously an idea coined from the "SuperBolan" series. In this our heroes go up against KGB backed mercenaries, plenty of action but a little bit more talkative than the other books in the series. Worth a read though.

[Little Timmy · Rating 3 out of 5]

A spin off series from his Executioner books. This series follows several secondary characters that band together. Recommended

[Josh Hitch · Rating 4 out of 5]

Closer to a 3.5 but Michael Linaker does a solid job with this one. The story is fine but I think the extra length hurts it. Would be a better read if it was the standard length instead of one the supers. This time the team is in the Philippines trying to stop an elaborate assassination attempt on their president and a coup, all being pushed along by Russian assistance. Lots of moving parts but a lot of it is just noise and added just to meet a page count.

Recommend definitely wouldn't skip it. I did enjoy it overall, was well written and had plenty of action. Also the overall story was an interesting one.

[ShanDizzy · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a little long but the story was good - foiling an assassin of the Philippine president.