Cold Dead

Phoenix Force

by Gar Wilson

The Cold War drops to a deadly chill when the murder of two scientists contaminated with radiation points to illegal nuclear testing in Antarctica. With the superpowers on crisis alert, the President calls on Phoenix Force, the finest paramilitary commando unit in the world.

Once in the field, the Force discovers a much more sinister operation. There's a third party, neither Russian nor American, selling his growing arsenal of nuclear weapons to anyone with the cash.

As the situation spirals toward international tragedy, the Force descends on Erik Hellson's New Zealand operation and goes up against a private army of cutthroat mercs - and the icy trail explodes into a blazing firefight.

349 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1990

About the author

Phoenix 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.

Reviews

[Josh Hitch · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great one by William Fieldhouse, the best writer in the series. This time Katz and the rest of PF are sent to Antarctica to investigate who is responsible for two murdered Americans with corpses showing radiation. The Soviets and Americans are accusing each other of nuclear testing on the continent and all the other countries are picking sides. Come to find out it's a renegade group mining for Uranium sources. The group is well funded and is making nuclear shells for canons that they are selling to any group that has the money. PF ends up going to New Zealand, Australia and beyond taking out groups trying to find the leaders.

Highly recommended, Fieldhouse is always good and this is a fast (even being a Super) read that never bores you.

[Nicki · Rating 3 out of 5]

I picked this up from the only used bookstore I knew. Wouldn’t have found it otherwise and I wanted to get a taste of a new genre. I say it aged pretty well and it gives in to the promise of the action, along with likable characters, brief politics(mostly war/terrorist, Cold War, a bit of social) and various settings. The action scenes here are one of the few I’ve read in books that didn’t bother me; heck, I enjoyed them. Overall, a good experimental read.

[Donald · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this story and villains were worthy of a Super Phoenix Force

[Wayne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Super Phoenix Force. 349 pages of wall to wall action. We go to the frozen Arctic, to the steamy jungles of the Philippines. There's nuclear weapons involved too. These "super" Gold Eagle books always seem to be much better than the regular books in the series. More action. More plot. More everything.

[Little Timmy · Rating 3 out of 5]

A spin off series from his Executioner books. This series follows several secondary characters that band together. Recommended