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Stony Man #124
Nuclear Intent
STONY MAN
When the President has nowhere else to turn, Stony Man is there to get the job done. An elite group of black ops and cyber tech professionals, the team works under the cloak of stealth to strike before innocent lives are lost. Bound by honor and duty, they are willing to pay the ultimate price to uphold freedom.
NUCLEAR INTENT
Three agents end up dead and one of Stony Man Farm’s own is injured after receiving covert information, sending up a red flag in the President’s office. Someone is planning to ignite hostilities between Israel and Iran by unleashing a nuclear weapon that would force the U.S. to help their ally and go into battle. With the lives of millions at stake, Stony Man’s Phoenix Force flies to Yemen to track the bomb before it can launch, while Able Team hunts down the masterminds behind the deadly plot…in the United States.
When the President has nowhere else to turn, Stony Man is there to get the job done. An elite group of black ops and cyber tech professionals, the team works under the cloak of stealth to strike before innocent lives are lost. Bound by honor and duty, they are willing to pay the ultimate price to uphold freedom.
NUCLEAR INTENT
Three agents end up dead and one of Stony Man Farm’s own is injured after receiving covert information, sending up a red flag in the President’s office. Someone is planning to ignite hostilities between Israel and Iran by unleashing a nuclear weapon that would force the U.S. to help their ally and go into battle. With the lives of millions at stake, Stony Man’s Phoenix Force flies to Yemen to track the bomb before it can launch, while Able Team hunts down the masterminds behind the deadly plot…in the United States.
320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2013
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About the author
Don Pendleton
1,521 books190 followersDon Pendleton was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, December 12, 1927 and died October 23, 1995 in Arizona.
He wrote mystery, action/adventure, science-fiction, crime fiction, suspense, short stories, nonfiction, and was a comic scriptwriter, poet, screenwriter, essayist, and metaphysical scholar. He published more than 125 books in his long career, and his books have been published in more than 25 foreign languages with close to two hundred million copies in print throughout the world.
After producing a number of science-fiction and mystery novels, Don launched in 1969 the phenomenal Mack Bolan: The Executioner, which quickly emerged as the original, definitive Action/Adventure series. His successful paperback books inspired a new particularly American literary genre during the early 1970's, and Don became known as "the father of action/adventure."
"Although The Executioner Series is far and away my most significant contribution to world literature, I still do not perceive myself as 'belonging' to any particular literary niche. I am simply a storyteller, an entertainer who hopes to enthrall with visions of the reader's own incipient greatness."
Don Pendleton's original Executioner Series are now in ebooks, published by Open Road Media. 37 of the original novels.
Wikipedia: Don Pendleton
He wrote mystery, action/adventure, science-fiction, crime fiction, suspense, short stories, nonfiction, and was a comic scriptwriter, poet, screenwriter, essayist, and metaphysical scholar. He published more than 125 books in his long career, and his books have been published in more than 25 foreign languages with close to two hundred million copies in print throughout the world.
After producing a number of science-fiction and mystery novels, Don launched in 1969 the phenomenal Mack Bolan: The Executioner, which quickly emerged as the original, definitive Action/Adventure series. His successful paperback books inspired a new particularly American literary genre during the early 1970's, and Don became known as "the father of action/adventure."
"Although The Executioner Series is far and away my most significant contribution to world literature, I still do not perceive myself as 'belonging' to any particular literary niche. I am simply a storyteller, an entertainer who hopes to enthrall with visions of the reader's own incipient greatness."
Don Pendleton's original Executioner Series are now in ebooks, published by Open Road Media. 37 of the original novels.
Wikipedia: Don Pendleton
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September 16, 2014
Where my last read in the Bolanverse (Devil's Bargain) was a disappointment, this one was anything but. Mind you, I would be surprised to be disappointed by a Mike Linaker entry in the universe.
An information broker finds out about a plot to smuggle a nuclear device into Israel to set them at war with Iran. He's killed, but passes it to a French spy, who is killed, but passes it to a CIA agent. The CIA agent is killed, but managed to send the information to another trustworthy CIA agent who gives it to Hal Brognola (head of the Stony Farm) before being killed in a car bomb.
And this happens all in the first couple of chapters. Needless to say, Brognola being injured by the car bomb that kills the CIA agent (who is also a friend of the President, it turns out) sets the Farm to tracking down a mercenary who is working with the rogue CIA agent and the Senator behind the plot. Able Team tracks the CIA/Senator part of the plot, while Phoenix Force goes after the mercenary who is dealing with the acquisition of the nuclear device from a crooked Russian.
Things I liked include bringing in characters who have appeared in other books. Also the fact that the ending was a little more open, leaving the possibility of a sequel.
Things I didn't like includes Phoenix rolling into a Somali town and their guide points out the suspicious guy who runs the only store, says he doesn't trust the man at all... so no one keeps an eye on him, letting him call the bad guys down on them. Acting stupid to advance the plot really annoys me.
Still, it was a very good read if you're in the mood for something along the line of an early Schwarzenegger movie.
An information broker finds out about a plot to smuggle a nuclear device into Israel to set them at war with Iran. He's killed, but passes it to a French spy, who is killed, but passes it to a CIA agent. The CIA agent is killed, but managed to send the information to another trustworthy CIA agent who gives it to Hal Brognola (head of the Stony Farm) before being killed in a car bomb.
And this happens all in the first couple of chapters. Needless to say, Brognola being injured by the car bomb that kills the CIA agent (who is also a friend of the President, it turns out) sets the Farm to tracking down a mercenary who is working with the rogue CIA agent and the Senator behind the plot. Able Team tracks the CIA/Senator part of the plot, while Phoenix Force goes after the mercenary who is dealing with the acquisition of the nuclear device from a crooked Russian.
Things I liked include bringing in characters who have appeared in other books. Also the fact that the ending was a little more open, leaving the possibility of a sequel.
Things I didn't like includes Phoenix rolling into a Somali town and their guide points out the suspicious guy who runs the only store, says he doesn't trust the man at all... so no one keeps an eye on him, letting him call the bad guys down on them. Acting stupid to advance the plot really annoys me.
Still, it was a very good read if you're in the mood for something along the line of an early Schwarzenegger movie.
January 4, 2016
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