The Phoenix Series: Books 7-9

The Phoenix #7-9

by Ted Tayler

The Phoenix believes criminals should pay for their crimes.
The system often fails to deliver the correct punishment.
He can redress the balance.


Something Wicked Draws Near

Newly-weds Phoenix and Athena battle The Grid and its leader Hugo Hanigan.
Olympus seeks fresh faces to join the Gods and provide finance for its missions.
Grid gang leader, Tommy O’Riordan, is convicted of murder. Hugo Hanigan immediately takes bloody revenge.


Evil Always Finds A Way

The drama unfolds over forty days and forty nights across the UK.
The Grid’s story continues as death becomes a constant companion to Phoenix and his colleagues.
Can Olympus halt the reign of terror perpetrated by The Grid?


Revenge Comes In Many Colours

Justice and revenge are to the fore.
A senior Grid members meeting has a dramatic conclusion.
Colleen O’Riordan strengthens her grip in the capital.
Who is her secret assassin? What does the future hold for Hugo Hanigan?


The excitement never lets up as the vigilante organisation battles organised crime. Step by step, the Olympus story moves closer to its final instalments.

Genres: Thriller

516 pages, ebook

Published October 4, 2019

About the author

Ted Tayler is the international best-selling indie author of the Freeman Files and Phoenix series. Ted lives in the English West country, where his stories are based. He was born in 1945 and has been married to Lynne since 1971. They have three children and four grandchildren.

His thought-provoking mysteries appeal to readers of Sally Rigby, Joy Ellis, Pauline Rowson, and Faith Martin. His action-packed thrillers are a must for fans of Mark Dawson and J C Ryan.

Gus Freeman’s cold case investigations are carried out with reasoned deduction rather than bursts of frantic action. In each of the 24 books, unsolved murders are accompanied by romance, humour, and country life. The core message in the 12 Phoenix novels is that criminals should pay for their crimes. Unfortunately, the current system fails to deliver the correct punishment, so Phoenix helps redress the balance.

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Edge of the Seat Thriller

Another excellent series of books that are full of action and suspense. The sexual encounter between Annie and Phoenix was totally unnecessary gratuitous sex and irrelevant to the story thread...disappointng for an author like Ted Taylor.

[Rachel Cacek · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another intriguing Phoenix accomplishment.

Beginning with a bang, the story moves rapidly towards teaching crime doesn't pay. Always a new situation, plus wonderful inserts of local history and surrounding area. Who says you can't have it ask?

[Daniel Deitch · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great Collection

The third trilogy is even better than the first two. I’m looking forward to reading more about the Olympian adventures and can’t wait for the next installment

[Charles Wilson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Holy Good Guys Batman!

Ted Taylor has the right idea for a gritty set of ch. His plot runs smoothly and covers several levels of action at a time. I wish there were truly Olympian organizations in the real world, especially in America.

[Peni · Rating 4 out of 5]

Please see individual stories for review.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

Crimes against humanity who decides?
Reader gets to choose during the three books
what side you're on. Was anything improved except to exchange
one devil with another?

[Jacqueline · Rating 5 out of 5]

I started reading this series of 13 books at the beginning with Phoenix, Conception, which is a book on it's own about loner Colin Bailey, who was, in life in general, invisible. His parents never gave him any sign they'd ever wanted him and continually either ignored him or told him he was useless. Colin was actually very intelligent. He ignored the estate bully boys who taunted him and read and studied so that he got top marks in his A levels, but, being so invisible, the teachers couldn't figure out who this boy was, so marked his results down to what they thought he'd get, thereby denying him his dream of going to university. However, Colin gets a job that allows him to secretly find out details of all of his enemies and work out how to eliminate them. He starts with his parents, who, although separated, he kills ruthlessly, leaving no clues at all for the police. Having eliminated his bosses, married with no real enthusiasm, a girl he gets pregnant and starts an affair with his sex mad ex boss's wife. His mission in life is to eliminate criminals. After unwittingly leaving his beloved daughter with a paedophile who rapes and kills her, he divorces his wife and marries his lover, changing his name to hers, and when she dies, inherits her large fortune. After a fight in a river with the policeman who, although he secretly applauds Colins's eliminating of criminals the police and judiciary are too soft on, still opposes him, Colin in lost assumed drowned in the river. However, he is rescued by an organisation who have been following his career. They rename him Phoenix, for obvious reasons. The 3 sets of 3 books after this follow the career, not only of Phoenix, but that of the Organisation he now becomes an important part of. The entire story is addictive, unputdownable and follows real events that have occured up to the end of 2015. The 12th book in the series came to a huge climax and bought me to tears. I actually feel at a loss now that I've finished the series. I have to say, the amount of research required to write a series like this with accuracy astounds me. I have started on The Freeman Files by the same author, which is good enough to move on to.