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Phoenix Force #11
Return to Armageddon
Return To Armageddon by Gar Wilson released on Mar 23, 1984 is available now for purchase.
- GenresAction
184 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1984
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Gar Wilson
70 books4 followersPhoenix Force is a series of action-adventure novels first published in 1982 by American Gold Eagle publishers. It is a spin-off of the Executioner series created by Don Pendleton.
Phoenix Force is one of two neutralization teams working for Stony Man, a top-secret anti-terrorist organization. As with The Executioner, the Phoenix Force novels have been written by a succession of authors under the pseudonym Gar Wilson. In 1991, Gold Eagle combined Phoenix Force with another Executioner spin-off series, Able Team, and launched the Stony Man book series, which is still being published as of 2005.
Phoenix Force is one of two neutralization teams working for Stony Man, a top-secret anti-terrorist organization. As with The Executioner, the Phoenix Force novels have been written by a succession of authors under the pseudonym Gar Wilson. In 1991, Gold Eagle combined Phoenix Force with another Executioner spin-off series, Able Team, and launched the Stony Man book series, which is still being published as of 2005.
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May 22, 2020
Closer to a 3.5 star rating but it is an above average volume in the series. Also does a good job explaining who everyone is, which some of the volumes don't do, for anyone who may of picked this one up first. Very fast read, has the widest margins I've ever seen while keeping the 180 page count the same. Though again a cool plot and story with all the action you would ever want and expect in this series and genre.
Recommended for anyone who is interested in Men's Adventure but probably more for people already familiar with the genre and appreciates it. This is a solid novel but it's not War Against the Mafia which is the book to start with in Men's Adventure of the 70s and 80s.
Recommended for anyone who is interested in Men's Adventure but probably more for people already familiar with the genre and appreciates it. This is a solid novel but it's not War Against the Mafia which is the book to start with in Men's Adventure of the 70s and 80s.
January 7, 2017
This is the way men's action adventure books should be. This one was written by William Fieldhouse, one of the best in the business. In this outing the leader of the force, Yakov "Katz" Katzenelenbogen is called back to his homeland, Israel to stop the assassination of the prime minister. He has to call in the full force after a wave of terrorists put their evil plot in to action.
The action is fast and furious. From the streets of Israel to the mountains of Jordan. The bad guy are really bad in this one. A group called "The Assassins" are hired to kill the prime minister. What we get is a talking decapitated head. Heavily drugged up madmen. Commie middle easterners that renounce Islam. Every trick in the book is pulled out by the author. This was one hell of a book!
The action is fast and furious. From the streets of Israel to the mountains of Jordan. The bad guy are really bad in this one. A group called "The Assassins" are hired to kill the prime minister. What we get is a talking decapitated head. Heavily drugged up madmen. Commie middle easterners that renounce Islam. Every trick in the book is pulled out by the author. This was one hell of a book!
July 5, 2024
After an assassination attempt on the prime minister of Israel just barely missing fails, Phoenix Force heads to the mid-east. Their two-fold mission is to protect the prime minister from further attempts on his life AND track down & destroy the terrorist cell responsible. Unfortunately, the terrorists have an agent within Israel's intelligence agencies, so the bad guys know Phoenix Force is coming.
This makes for a fairly strong entry in the series. To get its Carnage and Corpses Quota up to series standard, the plot does depend a bit too much on Phoenix Force being ambushed on the streets of Tel Aviv over and over again. But, to be fair, each of these action scenes is individually well-written. And the climax, in which Phoenix Force and some Israeli commandoes assault the terrorist base, it intense and brutal.
This makes for a fairly strong entry in the series. To get its Carnage and Corpses Quota up to series standard, the plot does depend a bit too much on Phoenix Force being ambushed on the streets of Tel Aviv over and over again. But, to be fair, each of these action scenes is individually well-written. And the climax, in which Phoenix Force and some Israeli commandoes assault the terrorist base, it intense and brutal.
August 19, 2025
This time the 5 man Force takes on a personal mission to Katz as he calls them to come to Israel to help protect the President's life and find and root out a nasty bunch of extremists that Katz knows is the Hashashin or Assassins even if the Deputy Director of Israeli operations does not believe him. The boys come through for Katz and they are attacked at every turn it seems like can they come out of this mission in one piece and alive or will some of them pay the ultimate price this time???
January 26, 2020
High octane tour through the Holy Land as the Force faces wave after wave of crazed fanatics - assassins intent on starting a war between Israel and Egypt.
March 29, 2016
What's nice is this book - and perhaps the one right before which I haven't read yet - sets off a long string of William Fieldhouse books. The writing in this one, and the two that follow which I've read, is consistently good.
What I'm noticing now that I've gone through 9 of these books to date [not counting the same number, later in the series that I'd read as a kid] is for the most part the stories are engaging while you read them, but not something that has any lasting power. To use a comparison from an earlier review, it's much the same for most action/adventure fare, so that's more observation than criticism. In any case, it's only been a week since I read this one and I'm already forgetting what much of the plot is about. Is it the Russians, the Muslims or??
What I'm noticing now that I've gone through 9 of these books to date [not counting the same number, later in the series that I'd read as a kid] is for the most part the stories are engaging while you read them, but not something that has any lasting power. To use a comparison from an earlier review, it's much the same for most action/adventure fare, so that's more observation than criticism. In any case, it's only been a week since I read this one and I'm already forgetting what much of the plot is about. Is it the Russians, the Muslims or??
July 14, 2009
It has its moments of possible goodness. Not many, but some. The action is somewhat repetitive as they get ambushed, attacked, etc at every turn and while that's not unusual some of the battles could be considered hard to believe.
It is the first of the team's 'unauthorized' missions when Katz calls on his friends to help him out in Isreal. Not a good time considering this was right after Bolan had gone rogue again and the whole operation was being considered to be chopped. It did show the loyalty of the men to one another but it also showed some stupidity if one looked at how and why Encizo got hurt.
It is the first of the team's 'unauthorized' missions when Katz calls on his friends to help him out in Isreal. Not a good time considering this was right after Bolan had gone rogue again and the whole operation was being considered to be chopped. It did show the loyalty of the men to one another but it also showed some stupidity if one looked at how and why Encizo got hurt.
February 24, 2016
A spin off series from his Executioner books. This series follows several secondary characters that band together. Recommended
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