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The Iron Eagle #9
Rampage
“They pushed, and they pushed, and they…pushed; now they will pay with their lives.”
From the Back:
High school is hard, but for four seniors who have been bullied all of their lives, enough has now become more than enough. For years, they endured the wrath of their classmates, schoolyard beatings, and public and private ridicule with social media attacks from every direction. But all that is about to change as they’ve been pushed to the edge and then over, setting the stage for a mass murder plot of horrific proportions. As law enforcement struggles to piece together the crimes, the students have been able to work in relative anonymity through TOR and the deep web and are now ready to take their revenge on those who tormented them as outcasts.
Inside Flap:
The hanging body of Brian Donaldson, a well-known senior at Rosedo High School in the suburbs of Los Angeles, has been found under the bleachers of the football stadium. He was brutally murdered, his disemboweled body left hanging as a message to both schoolmates and law enforcement of something much larger and more dangerous. While captain of the football team and an all-around popular guy, Donaldson had a well-known dark side and the rap sheet to prove it. Sheriff Jim O’Brian and FBI Special Agent John Swenson unite as the cryptic messages point to a sinister plot – a plot against one dead senior and several of his bully buddies ¬– and a plot for revenge against the school as a whole. This is not a case that can be solved by Swenson and O’Brian alone. It will take the work and skills of the Iron Eagle if the lives of hundreds of students are to be saved.
***Content Warning: While the Iron Eagle Series can be read out of order as a stand-alone book the reader should be advised that backgrounds and details of the characters may be confusing if readers choose to do so. The Iron Eagle Crime novel series contains mature subject matter, graphic violence, sexual content, language, torture and other scenes that may be disturbing to sensitive readers. This series is not intended for anyone under the age of eighteen, reader discretion is advised.***
From the Back:
High school is hard, but for four seniors who have been bullied all of their lives, enough has now become more than enough. For years, they endured the wrath of their classmates, schoolyard beatings, and public and private ridicule with social media attacks from every direction. But all that is about to change as they’ve been pushed to the edge and then over, setting the stage for a mass murder plot of horrific proportions. As law enforcement struggles to piece together the crimes, the students have been able to work in relative anonymity through TOR and the deep web and are now ready to take their revenge on those who tormented them as outcasts.
Inside Flap:
The hanging body of Brian Donaldson, a well-known senior at Rosedo High School in the suburbs of Los Angeles, has been found under the bleachers of the football stadium. He was brutally murdered, his disemboweled body left hanging as a message to both schoolmates and law enforcement of something much larger and more dangerous. While captain of the football team and an all-around popular guy, Donaldson had a well-known dark side and the rap sheet to prove it. Sheriff Jim O’Brian and FBI Special Agent John Swenson unite as the cryptic messages point to a sinister plot – a plot against one dead senior and several of his bully buddies ¬– and a plot for revenge against the school as a whole. This is not a case that can be solved by Swenson and O’Brian alone. It will take the work and skills of the Iron Eagle if the lives of hundreds of students are to be saved.
***Content Warning: While the Iron Eagle Series can be read out of order as a stand-alone book the reader should be advised that backgrounds and details of the characters may be confusing if readers choose to do so. The Iron Eagle Crime novel series contains mature subject matter, graphic violence, sexual content, language, torture and other scenes that may be disturbing to sensitive readers. This series is not intended for anyone under the age of eighteen, reader discretion is advised.***
197 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2016
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About the author
Roy A. Teel Jr.
41 books58 followersOn May 11, 1995, at 30, Roy's life was irrevocably changed. After walking into the hospital, he was admitted and later received a sobering and life changing diagnosis - Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. His doctors gave him two years to live, and he left the hospital in a wheelchair. Roy, not one for giving up, and having a, then, three-year-old daughter and an 11-year-old son, went immediately into human subjects research at UCLA and spent 12 years (1995-2007) as a human research subject. His experience gave him a unique look behind the scenes of medicine and the processes that are required to get drugs through the research chain, from the animal research phase to using those drugs in humans in clinical trials, and, if successful, on to the FDA for approval. Roy participated in four major experimental drug trials, and one of those ended up giving him thyroid cancer, which was diagnosed in January 2001.
Life as a Survivor
Roy is a proud cancer survivor and has refused to let MS define his life. His dedication to his work and to human subject research both inspired his writing as well as showed the real human condition when laid bare. As an author, Roy A. Teel Jr. is very diverse, and his works include both fiction and nonfiction. He earned his bachelor's degree in Ministerial Studies through Berean University of the Assemblies of God then went on to earn doctorates of Divinity and Biblical Studies through ULC Ministries.
Nonfiction
Roy's first nonfiction book, The Way, The Truth, and The Lies: How the Gospels Mislead Christians about Jesus' True Message, was published in 2005 and is taught in both religious and secular universities in the U.S. and abroad. Against The Grain: The American Mega-Church and its Culture of Control was published in 2008. This second book reveals the unflattering true faces of the "Goliaths of God" and shows religion and churches for what they really are - businesses - very, very lucrative and influential businesses involved in many facets of American society.
Short Fiction
In 2008, Roy published a collection of short stories titled, Light of Darkness: Dialogues in Death. These collected stories were inspired by both his difficult and troubled childhood as well as his years in clinical trials. He met and knew many people, many whom lost the battle due to natural causes, or in some cases, by their own hand, that he felt compelled to fictionalize and share their stories.
Novel-length Fiction
In 2013, Roy released his first novel, And God Laughed, a neoplatonic dialogue between one man and God. Although now a secular humanist, Roy believes in God but rejects all religions as man's folly and wrote a fictional narrative about a relationship with God outside of religion.
Current Project
In 2014, Roy began publishing his latest and largest project - a 40-novel geographically-centered hard boiled, mystery, suspense, thriller crime series: "The Iron Eagle Series." The main character, a former Marine Corps Black Operative turned rogue FBI agent, hunts killers in Los Angeles. Each novel addresses different subjects, and while fiction, all titles deal with real world subject matter. "The Iron Eagle Series" is not about things that can't hurt you. What happens in these novels can happen to any one of us if we let our guard down and/or are in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Life as an Author
After battling Multiple Sclerosis for nearly 16 years, Roy began devoting his energies and passions to the full-time art of storytelling. Although he is no longer able to work in a high stress executive environment, his life has taken on a new mission: to inform and entertain. His disability has brought with it an unforeseen blessing. He can finally take medications to alleviate some of the pain from his MS and focus on the pleasures of character creation and the joys of putting words to paper.
Life as a Survivor
Roy is a proud cancer survivor and has refused to let MS define his life. His dedication to his work and to human subject research both inspired his writing as well as showed the real human condition when laid bare. As an author, Roy A. Teel Jr. is very diverse, and his works include both fiction and nonfiction. He earned his bachelor's degree in Ministerial Studies through Berean University of the Assemblies of God then went on to earn doctorates of Divinity and Biblical Studies through ULC Ministries.
Nonfiction
Roy's first nonfiction book, The Way, The Truth, and The Lies: How the Gospels Mislead Christians about Jesus' True Message, was published in 2005 and is taught in both religious and secular universities in the U.S. and abroad. Against The Grain: The American Mega-Church and its Culture of Control was published in 2008. This second book reveals the unflattering true faces of the "Goliaths of God" and shows religion and churches for what they really are - businesses - very, very lucrative and influential businesses involved in many facets of American society.
Short Fiction
In 2008, Roy published a collection of short stories titled, Light of Darkness: Dialogues in Death. These collected stories were inspired by both his difficult and troubled childhood as well as his years in clinical trials. He met and knew many people, many whom lost the battle due to natural causes, or in some cases, by their own hand, that he felt compelled to fictionalize and share their stories.
Novel-length Fiction
In 2013, Roy released his first novel, And God Laughed, a neoplatonic dialogue between one man and God. Although now a secular humanist, Roy believes in God but rejects all religions as man's folly and wrote a fictional narrative about a relationship with God outside of religion.
Current Project
In 2014, Roy began publishing his latest and largest project - a 40-novel geographically-centered hard boiled, mystery, suspense, thriller crime series: "The Iron Eagle Series." The main character, a former Marine Corps Black Operative turned rogue FBI agent, hunts killers in Los Angeles. Each novel addresses different subjects, and while fiction, all titles deal with real world subject matter. "The Iron Eagle Series" is not about things that can't hurt you. What happens in these novels can happen to any one of us if we let our guard down and/or are in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Life as an Author
After battling Multiple Sclerosis for nearly 16 years, Roy began devoting his energies and passions to the full-time art of storytelling. Although he is no longer able to work in a high stress executive environment, his life has taken on a new mission: to inform and entertain. His disability has brought with it an unforeseen blessing. He can finally take medications to alleviate some of the pain from his MS and focus on the pleasures of character creation and the joys of putting words to paper.
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May 25, 2016
It's been awhile since I have been back to visit my friends in the LAPD, and truthfully, I've been missing Sherriff Jim O'Brien. When I cracked open Rampage (book 9 by Roy Teel Jr.), I was flooded with memories of the other books in the series and eagerly devoured each new twisted chapter in his latest deliciously dark novel, following the aforementioned Sherriff and our Antihero the Iron Eagle.
Where Teel has never failed to excite me in one of his gritty novels starring FBI agent John Swenson and his band of brothers in arms, this particular book struck a cord deep inside. I personally feel that Rampage was published at the perfect time, as the world dives deeper into the mysterious online world and how very real bullying (now known as Cyber Bullying) can be for those on the wrong end of it.
Rampage is nit my favorite book in the Iron Eagle series. And for one main reasons: I was forced to confront evils that are no longer imaginary or that live in another part of the world. In reality, there's a little bit of bully in all of us, just as there's a little bit of victim. As Tell carefully mixes the not so distant memories of Columbine with the tangled dark web known as TOR, I not only looked inward but at the sleeping faces of my children. As I read Rampage I often had to stop and think about the world we live in, the world our children call home and I was reminded how there is no amounts of planning and teaching we parents can do to prepare our youth for the real evils that await them. In the case of Rampage, like so many tragic stories of bullies and their victims, these monsters are not born monsters but victims themselves.
Teel's masterful story telling left me crying for the victims, both types of victims. It made me scream at the injustice of a world where we can not protect our children from what may be the worst of all evils: The evil that may just live inside themselves.
Where Teel has never failed to excite me in one of his gritty novels starring FBI agent John Swenson and his band of brothers in arms, this particular book struck a cord deep inside. I personally feel that Rampage was published at the perfect time, as the world dives deeper into the mysterious online world and how very real bullying (now known as Cyber Bullying) can be for those on the wrong end of it.
Rampage is nit my favorite book in the Iron Eagle series. And for one main reasons: I was forced to confront evils that are no longer imaginary or that live in another part of the world. In reality, there's a little bit of bully in all of us, just as there's a little bit of victim. As Tell carefully mixes the not so distant memories of Columbine with the tangled dark web known as TOR, I not only looked inward but at the sleeping faces of my children. As I read Rampage I often had to stop and think about the world we live in, the world our children call home and I was reminded how there is no amounts of planning and teaching we parents can do to prepare our youth for the real evils that await them. In the case of Rampage, like so many tragic stories of bullies and their victims, these monsters are not born monsters but victims themselves.
Teel's masterful story telling left me crying for the victims, both types of victims. It made me scream at the injustice of a world where we can not protect our children from what may be the worst of all evils: The evil that may just live inside themselves.
July 14, 2016
The author has one again ripped a topic right from the headlines and with expert research and relevant professional and life experience, written a hard-hitting and deeply relevant book - this time about the long-term effects of bullying. As usual, Teel doesn't sugarcoat the reality. This book tells the story as it really would be (and very often is) in the real world: gory, painful, and heart-wrenching. Death isn't clean and neither are Teel's books. They aren't for the faint of heart. If blood and guts, cursing, sex, and the portrayal of crime as it really is are offensive to you, Teel's books are probably not the best choice for you.
In Rampage, Teel discusses the effects of life-long bullying, both physical and cyber, on four people. These people begin to plan revenge on those who have harmed them, but as so often happens today, that revenge spreads to encompass far more than those who originally participated in the bullying. It will take more than law enforcement to stop the angry teenagers from harming innocent people. It will take the Iron Eagle.
Once again, Teel has created a book that is filled with action that is true to life. His characters are vivid, his bad guys (and women) are often heartbreakingly wronged by society, sometimes pure evil, but always bad in one way or another. And the Iron Eagle is the best superhero (who is completely human) ever.
The scary thing about this book is that the Eagle is beginning to tire of his never-ending fight against crime. When will he get to rest and enjoy his life with his wife? Will he ever get to relax?
While each book in the Iron Eagle series is a standalone, I believe it's best to read the books in order so that you can fully understand the characters, the history of the Iron Eagle, and the lives of all those involved with him.
I received this book in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. All opinions stated within this review are my own.
In Rampage, Teel discusses the effects of life-long bullying, both physical and cyber, on four people. These people begin to plan revenge on those who have harmed them, but as so often happens today, that revenge spreads to encompass far more than those who originally participated in the bullying. It will take more than law enforcement to stop the angry teenagers from harming innocent people. It will take the Iron Eagle.
Once again, Teel has created a book that is filled with action that is true to life. His characters are vivid, his bad guys (and women) are often heartbreakingly wronged by society, sometimes pure evil, but always bad in one way or another. And the Iron Eagle is the best superhero (who is completely human) ever.
The scary thing about this book is that the Eagle is beginning to tire of his never-ending fight against crime. When will he get to rest and enjoy his life with his wife? Will he ever get to relax?
While each book in the Iron Eagle series is a standalone, I believe it's best to read the books in order so that you can fully understand the characters, the history of the Iron Eagle, and the lives of all those involved with him.
I received this book in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. All opinions stated within this review are my own.
September 28, 2016
I won this book from Goodreads,and liked it. Usually not the type of book I read, I'm exposed to a lot of different types of books from Goodreads. I had never heard of The Iron Eagle, and I think he's someone that most people would argue if he's a hero or not. He saves those he thinks are deserving and metes out his own type of justice to those he doesn't. If you're not ready for lots of sex and violence this is not for you.
The Iron Eagle helps in a battle between high school kids, the popular one against the nerds that have been picked on all their lives and have finally had enough. The nerds have had enough and decide to fight back, but have they gone to far, as they plot against the popular crowd, but also the innocent people. The Iron Eagle decides.
The Iron Eagle helps in a battle between high school kids, the popular one against the nerds that have been picked on all their lives and have finally had enough. The nerds have had enough and decide to fight back, but have they gone to far, as they plot against the popular crowd, but also the innocent people. The Iron Eagle decides.
June 8, 2016
Yeah Iron Eagle!
Just a bit too convenient at times but I am still enjoying the series and crave the next installment.
Rampage addresses issues with school and bullying and how it affects the victims. If anyone bullies my niece and nephews, I will have a hard time not going Iron Eagle on the bullying little shits. Isn't there a better way? How do children learn to hate? This day and age, we are still tolerating hate and it is just wildly incomprehensible.
Just a bit too convenient at times but I am still enjoying the series and crave the next installment.
Rampage addresses issues with school and bullying and how it affects the victims. If anyone bullies my niece and nephews, I will have a hard time not going Iron Eagle on the bullying little shits. Isn't there a better way? How do children learn to hate? This day and age, we are still tolerating hate and it is just wildly incomprehensible.
August 11, 2015
I was given this book as an ARC; for an honest review.
The Iron Eagle must act fast to stop a hideous plot. Where fiction reflects on true events, you will be on the edge of your seat till the end.
The Iron Eagle must act fast to stop a hideous plot. Where fiction reflects on true events, you will be on the edge of your seat till the end.
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