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Strike Force X #1
Pablo's Ghost
IN THE PREMIERE EPISODE OF STRIKE FORCE X THE TEAM IS ON THE HUNT FOR THE GHOST OF PABLO ESCOBAR AND UNVEILS A DARK CORRUPTION ALONG THE WAY.
The five-member SFX Corporation is a private military contractor working at various times for government agencies, individual clients, or on personal projects, rejecting any job offers that might place them on the "wrong side" ethically.
The team accepts a DEA contract to investigate a resurgent drug cartel in Colombia, allegedly led by the revenant of deceased narcotrafficker Pablo Escobar, reputedly killed in 1993 but now reappearing "in the flesh." The assignment places all SFX team members in mortal danger, ultimately placing them at odds with a "dirty" member of the agency employing them…
The five-member SFX Corporation is a private military contractor working at various times for government agencies, individual clients, or on personal projects, rejecting any job offers that might place them on the "wrong side" ethically.
The team accepts a DEA contract to investigate a resurgent drug cartel in Colombia, allegedly led by the revenant of deceased narcotrafficker Pablo Escobar, reputedly killed in 1993 but now reappearing "in the flesh." The assignment places all SFX team members in mortal danger, ultimately placing them at odds with a "dirty" member of the agency employing them…
196 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 15, 2020
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Michael Newton
469 books104 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
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"Michael Newton (born 1951) is an American author best known for his work on Don Pendleton's Mack Bolan series. Newton first began work on the Executioner series by co-writing "The Executioner's War Book" with Don Pendleton in 1977. Since then he has been a steady writer for the series with almost 90 entries to his credit, which triples the amount written by creator Don Pendleton. His skills and knowledge of the series have allowed him to be picked by the publishers to write the milestone novels such as #100, #200, and #300.
Writing under the pseudonym Lyle Brandt, Michael Newton has also become a popular writer of Western novels. He has written a number of successful non-fiction titles as well, including a book on genre writing (How to Write Action Adventure Novels). His book Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida won the Florida Historical Society's 2002 Rembert Patrick Award for Best Book in Florida History. Newton's "Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology" won the American Library Association's award for Outstanding Reference Work in 2006."
Pen names: Lyle Brandt, Don Pendleton, Jack Buchanan
Bibiliography available here.
From Wikipedia:
"Michael Newton (born 1951) is an American author best known for his work on Don Pendleton's Mack Bolan series. Newton first began work on the Executioner series by co-writing "The Executioner's War Book" with Don Pendleton in 1977. Since then he has been a steady writer for the series with almost 90 entries to his credit, which triples the amount written by creator Don Pendleton. His skills and knowledge of the series have allowed him to be picked by the publishers to write the milestone novels such as #100, #200, and #300.
Writing under the pseudonym Lyle Brandt, Michael Newton has also become a popular writer of Western novels. He has written a number of successful non-fiction titles as well, including a book on genre writing (How to Write Action Adventure Novels). His book Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida won the Florida Historical Society's 2002 Rembert Patrick Award for Best Book in Florida History. Newton's "Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology" won the American Library Association's award for Outstanding Reference Work in 2006."
Pen names: Lyle Brandt, Don Pendleton, Jack Buchanan
Bibiliography available here.
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July 19, 2020
Full-on action adventure by a master of the genre.
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