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Able Team #20
Shot to Hell
An American journalist is tortured and murdered in Central America, but not before he tips off a CIA operative to the presence of Russian XCT missiles in the Honduran jungle. The Pentagon looks for a small mobile team to go in and neutralize the threat and comes up with the three strike-force veterans of Able Team. But somebody deep in the American war office is out to make sure Able Team's mission is on a one-way ticket to hell.
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First published January 1, 1985
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August 3, 2019
Much better that #19, but the confusion brings it down a notch. 19 and 20 were written by two different authors, and it shows. At the end of #19, Carl Lyons, leader of Able Team is hog tied and captured by Central American Nazis. #20 starts out with Lyons and Able Team are in America training separately for their next mission. Nothing is said about any events in book 19.
Their mission is to go to Honduras and stop the Russians from using a new type of low flying, guided missile on The States. Te action is turned down a bit. There is some fun in las cuevas de la muerte. The caves of death. Two of the team escape over a rope bridge toward the end, while Lyons, captured remember in book 19 is left to fight the commies alone. Not to spoil this, but he is captured again. Not by Nazis, but by Russian KGB. Once again leaving a HUGE HOLE at the end. Will he be free in book 21? Who knows!
Their mission is to go to Honduras and stop the Russians from using a new type of low flying, guided missile on The States. Te action is turned down a bit. There is some fun in las cuevas de la muerte. The caves of death. Two of the team escape over a rope bridge toward the end, while Lyons, captured remember in book 19 is left to fight the commies alone. Not to spoil this, but he is captured again. Not by Nazis, but by Russian KGB. Once again leaving a HUGE HOLE at the end. Will he be free in book 21? Who knows!
January 27, 2021
It's not bad but the whole book is a flashback mission being thought of by team member Lyons who is in a rough patch from book 19. In it him and his team are heading to Honduras to take out a Russian nuclear threat. Has a weird supernatural vibe which I guess can be explained somewhat by it being a flashback by an injured man. Other reviewers say you dont know it was a flashback but it does spell it out in the prologue. Still a weird way to go about the series. Again the story overall wasnt bad had a solid premise and other then the ending and touches of the supernatural it was done fine.
Overall wouldnt recommend, it's ok but there are better. Though wouldnt recommend to skip either if you are going through the series, it's an ok time waster.
Overall wouldnt recommend, it's ok but there are better. Though wouldnt recommend to skip either if you are going through the series, it's an ok time waster.
June 14, 2020
A big reading pet peeve of mine is bad flashbacks (second only to hokey Native American fiction). In "Shot to Hell", I'm not sure if I if the story is a flashback or not till the end. This serves no purpose except to confuse and distract the reader. A fun encounter with a snake saved this book from a 1 star rating.
January 25, 2016
A spin off series from his Executioner books. This series follows several secondary characters that band together. Recommended
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