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Stony Man #34
Reprisal
Relying on its two major arms- a cybernetics unit at home base in Virginia and teams of superior in-field tactical commandos - Stony Man is America's best defense. But when a hidden enemy infiltrates and compromises the Farm's computer nerve center, both arms of Stony Man face their deadliest challenge ever.
In a brilliant conspiracy to restore the glory days of the CIA, a rogue agent has masterminded a plot to take out Company competition. His stolen clipper chip has effectively shut down the Farm's communications network and made sitting ducks of the field teams. With Phoenix Force ambushed and trapped in the Colombian jungle, and a Cartel wet team moving in on Able Team stateside, it's up to Mack Bolan and the Stony experts to bring off the impossible.
In a brilliant conspiracy to restore the glory days of the CIA, a rogue agent has masterminded a plot to take out Company competition. His stolen clipper chip has effectively shut down the Farm's communications network and made sitting ducks of the field teams. With Phoenix Force ambushed and trapped in the Colombian jungle, and a Cartel wet team moving in on Able Team stateside, it's up to Mack Bolan and the Stony experts to bring off the impossible.
352 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published April 1, 1998
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About the author
Don Pendleton
1,517 books188 followersDon Pendleton was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, December 12, 1927 and died October 23, 1995 in Arizona.
He wrote mystery, action/adventure, science-fiction, crime fiction, suspense, short stories, nonfiction, and was a comic scriptwriter, poet, screenwriter, essayist, and metaphysical scholar. He published more than 125 books in his long career, and his books have been published in more than 25 foreign languages with close to two hundred million copies in print throughout the world.
After producing a number of science-fiction and mystery novels, Don launched in 1969 the phenomenal Mack Bolan: The Executioner, which quickly emerged as the original, definitive Action/Adventure series. His successful paperback books inspired a new particularly American literary genre during the early 1970's, and Don became known as "the father of action/adventure."
"Although The Executioner Series is far and away my most significant contribution to world literature, I still do not perceive myself as 'belonging' to any particular literary niche. I am simply a storyteller, an entertainer who hopes to enthrall with visions of the reader's own incipient greatness."
Don Pendleton's original Executioner Series are now in ebooks, published by Open Road Media. 37 of the original novels.
Wikipedia: Don Pendleton
He wrote mystery, action/adventure, science-fiction, crime fiction, suspense, short stories, nonfiction, and was a comic scriptwriter, poet, screenwriter, essayist, and metaphysical scholar. He published more than 125 books in his long career, and his books have been published in more than 25 foreign languages with close to two hundred million copies in print throughout the world.
After producing a number of science-fiction and mystery novels, Don launched in 1969 the phenomenal Mack Bolan: The Executioner, which quickly emerged as the original, definitive Action/Adventure series. His successful paperback books inspired a new particularly American literary genre during the early 1970's, and Don became known as "the father of action/adventure."
"Although The Executioner Series is far and away my most significant contribution to world literature, I still do not perceive myself as 'belonging' to any particular literary niche. I am simply a storyteller, an entertainer who hopes to enthrall with visions of the reader's own incipient greatness."
Don Pendleton's original Executioner Series are now in ebooks, published by Open Road Media. 37 of the original novels.
Wikipedia: Don Pendleton
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October 23, 2022
This book is somewhat a repeat of a tale from 15 years prior, when the Stony Man operation was targetted for destruction by a traitor inside the US intelligence system. This time the story is contained within a single super-novel, rather then the three-book-series before. The villain is also revealed earlier in the story instead of holding off until the conclusion.
But even given the recycled theme, the story is tight and exciting, and the risk level remains high, although not as personally catastrophic as the previous attack. Technology has been updated and by the two-thirds mark of the tale, Mack and his Able Team and Phoenix Force are turning the tables on their attackers. So the overall tone is a little more upbeat. Phoenix Force spends the novel in a running jungle battle, hampered by a wounded team member, while Able Team goes back to their War-on-the-Mafia roots, using detective skills of surveillance, disguise, and infiltration. Best of all, former Mob pilot Grimaldi goes beyond his usual air-taxi role to take an active part (via helicopter) in several major battles. And Bolan himself comes to the rescue in his larger-than-life fashion, but only after spending at least half the book trying to find his endangered team.
But even given the recycled theme, the story is tight and exciting, and the risk level remains high, although not as personally catastrophic as the previous attack. Technology has been updated and by the two-thirds mark of the tale, Mack and his Able Team and Phoenix Force are turning the tables on their attackers. So the overall tone is a little more upbeat. Phoenix Force spends the novel in a running jungle battle, hampered by a wounded team member, while Able Team goes back to their War-on-the-Mafia roots, using detective skills of surveillance, disguise, and infiltration. Best of all, former Mob pilot Grimaldi goes beyond his usual air-taxi role to take an active part (via helicopter) in several major battles. And Bolan himself comes to the rescue in his larger-than-life fashion, but only after spending at least half the book trying to find his endangered team.
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