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Able Team #3
Texas Showdown
A power-hungry Texas billionaire was planning to stage a revolution in Mexico. But the FBI and CIA knew only that their agents, sent to infiltrate his mysterious strike force of elite mercs, had suffered horrible deaths.
The president's decision - send in Able Team!
Breaking through the high security of the crazen Texan s base, Bolan s reborn Death Squad begins a blitzing series of combat events that bring them into the very hellheart of the drug wars of Bolivia and the Caribbean - and the sex war of the billionaire s Mexican debutante wife.
Surrounded by assassination, betrayal, and revenge, Gadgets Schwarz, Pol Blancanales and Carl Lyons must not fail - only they can stop open war between the United States and Mexico.
The president's decision - send in Able Team!
Breaking through the high security of the crazen Texan s base, Bolan s reborn Death Squad begins a blitzing series of combat events that bring them into the very hellheart of the drug wars of Bolivia and the Caribbean - and the sex war of the billionaire s Mexican debutante wife.
Surrounded by assassination, betrayal, and revenge, Gadgets Schwarz, Pol Blancanales and Carl Lyons must not fail - only they can stop open war between the United States and Mexico.
190 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1982
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About the author
Don Pendleton
1,520 books189 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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August 22, 2022
Colt Pythons, M-16s en Uzi's. Vervult de belofte van de kaft: ik moet vaker dit soort pulp kopen
June 22, 2022
Part of The Executioner line of action novels from the eighties. The Able Team are a crack squad of government agents who excel in covert operations. Of course, one guy is a tech expert, the other a weapons guy, etc... The book is exactly what you'd expect; lots of action, plot and violence - an '80's action movie come to life.
A super quick read at under 200 pages. Well worth your time and it was a great way to relax on a sunny summer Sunday afternoon.
A super quick read at under 200 pages. Well worth your time and it was a great way to relax on a sunny summer Sunday afternoon.
May 14, 2025
He wondered what kind of life he would have had if he'd stuck to trade school after the army. Most likely a job in a factory. Maybe a promotion to design or quality control. Maybe even a college degree on the company plan. All that driving to work in the morning. Driving home at night. Staring at a television. Wow, it made his Able Team work look like a spell in paradise! Even if he did get shot at sometimes.
This is one of those "throw shit at the wall and see what happens" kind of adventures that could only take place in books like this. Books for guys who like books! Able Team, AKA Gadgets Schwartz, Pol Blancanales and Carl Lyons, are sent by Phoenix Force to Texas, by way of Bolivia, then Jamaica, disguised as drug runners, to take on a billionaire Texas lunatic bent on invading Mexico. The billionaire is Tate Monroe, a crazy 80-year-old coot torqued up on a revenge plot against Mexico for the loss of land he once owned, or thought he owned or something. He's married to a hot and sexy young chiquita named Availa who's addicted to snorting coke and banging mercenaries in equal doses. There are a couple of drug lords named El Rojo and El Negro who got their own ideas about running crooked empires. El Rojo also just so happens to be Availa's brother, and he's made some deal with Tate Monroe (remember him?) by letting Monroe marry his sister so that he could get a toehold onto Monroe's billions. There are a bunch of ex-military outlaw mercenaries chomping at the bit to go south of the border and blow shit up and get drunk on tequila. Our Able Team spends a lot of time trying to blend into Monroe's army, known as the Texas Irregulars. There's a psycho named Pardee who gets off gutting people with his bayonet. There is another psycho named Furst who was once an actor-turned-bank robber and now mercenary militia commander. There is a ton of gun porn and exploding bodies and hi-karate kicks and chops and spraying blood throughout. Just your standard men's adventure from 1982. My grandmother turned me on to stuff like this. She also liked beer and cigarettes. Some kind of dame in her day! I've got more of these old Able Team capers on the shelf, and you can sleep secure tonight knowing that I'll be reading them eventually. Just to see if any of our heroes get the girl.
This is one of those "throw shit at the wall and see what happens" kind of adventures that could only take place in books like this. Books for guys who like books! Able Team, AKA Gadgets Schwartz, Pol Blancanales and Carl Lyons, are sent by Phoenix Force to Texas, by way of Bolivia, then Jamaica, disguised as drug runners, to take on a billionaire Texas lunatic bent on invading Mexico. The billionaire is Tate Monroe, a crazy 80-year-old coot torqued up on a revenge plot against Mexico for the loss of land he once owned, or thought he owned or something. He's married to a hot and sexy young chiquita named Availa who's addicted to snorting coke and banging mercenaries in equal doses. There are a couple of drug lords named El Rojo and El Negro who got their own ideas about running crooked empires. El Rojo also just so happens to be Availa's brother, and he's made some deal with Tate Monroe (remember him?) by letting Monroe marry his sister so that he could get a toehold onto Monroe's billions. There are a bunch of ex-military outlaw mercenaries chomping at the bit to go south of the border and blow shit up and get drunk on tequila. Our Able Team spends a lot of time trying to blend into Monroe's army, known as the Texas Irregulars. There's a psycho named Pardee who gets off gutting people with his bayonet. There is another psycho named Furst who was once an actor-turned-bank robber and now mercenary militia commander. There is a ton of gun porn and exploding bodies and hi-karate kicks and chops and spraying blood throughout. Just your standard men's adventure from 1982. My grandmother turned me on to stuff like this. She also liked beer and cigarettes. Some kind of dame in her day! I've got more of these old Able Team capers on the shelf, and you can sleep secure tonight knowing that I'll be reading them eventually. Just to see if any of our heroes get the girl.
March 25, 2018
This wasn't one of the better books I have read. I really liked the idea of the story only I thought it could've been handled a little different but none the less I will continue to read this series.
December 27, 2019
A solid men's adventure novel. The first of the series for me and really enjoyed the characters I first read of in Executioner book 2. Very few slow points and was a quick read.
February 5, 2024
Rating 3
Easy to read non stop action, exactly what you expect from an early 1980’s mens action adventure novel.
Lots of guns, violence, more guns, drugs gangs and explosive action.
Easy to read non stop action, exactly what you expect from an early 1980’s mens action adventure novel.
Lots of guns, violence, more guns, drugs gangs and explosive action.
August 21, 2015
Able Team is up against a Texas Millionaire who want's a piece, or all of Mexico. The team also has to fight a mercenary army from the inside. I recently got all 51 books and the 2 Super Able Team books. I'll be up to my back teeth in guns, subterfuge and dirty dealings for sometime.
January 25, 2016
The entire plot of this book was a waste of time since at the end they just decide to shoot everyone. So all the build up, the sneaking around, the establishment is wasted with a few pages of bloody carnage.
December 17, 2007
read 05.19.90
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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