The Barrabas Fix

Soldiers of Barrabas #27

by Jack Hild, William Baetz

The murder of an agent of the U.S Drug Enforcement Administration im Burma marks the beginning of a deadly trail that leads back to the United States. The police and the FBI are outnumbered at every turn as the drug dealers flood the country with the most addictive illegal substance. In a crackdown against drugs, the President wants the flow of heroin stopped at its source. The man assigned to spearhead the mission is Nile Barrabas, ex-Special Forces colonel and mercenary extraordinaire. But he's up against more than just crime lords in their jungle Chinese revolutionaries are muscling in on the drug trade, and he's haunted by a specter from Vietnam.

221 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

"Jack Hild" is a pseudonym shared by multiple authors ghostwriting the Soldiers of Barrabas (SOBs) series of action-adventure novels. The most prolific of these authors were Robin Hardy and Alan Philipson.

Despite Hild's output being the work of several authors, the novelist Warren Murphy provided a cover endorsement saying "Jack Hild is simply the best and gutsiest action writer around today."

In backmatter to some of the SOBs books, the publishers Gold Eagle jokingly stated Hild's "whereabouts are unknown. No one associated with Gold Eagle Books has ever seen Jack, in person or in a photograph... If you should ever meet Jack Hild... let us know."

Reviews

[Josh Hitch · Rating 4 out of 5]

William Baetz wrote a solid chapter in this series. Seems like a drug warlord has gotten all the smaller warlords in Indio China to form up in one force. This has upped the level of production and smuggling to dangerous levels putting more and more drugs into the US. The DEA has gone through Jessup to get the SOBs to find this warlord at his headquarters in the jungle and to take out all of it.

Highly recommended, nice squad based tale. Has a lot of action and a fast pace that never leaves you bored.

[Wayne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Once this series got to book #23, I thought I might just have to give it a pass. It was a mixed bag. Mostly bad. One of the reasons was that Robin Hardy stopped writing for the series. John Preston took over for a few books. Awful. Just Awful. There was no link to the old books at all except for the names of the characters. It got a little better. Then William Baetz wrote this one. He dragged the series back from the brink. It's just sad that it looks like he only wrote this volume and the last.

The SOB's enter into the Golden Triangle with a DEA agent to cripple production and flow of the devastating drugs to the States. He rounds the troops up and finds that he's up against one of his own. A former soldier in Vietnam.