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Able Team #10
Royal Flush
Able Team's mission: a cocaine bust in Manhattan. But a crooked trail soon takes the three aces of death to Windsor Castle in England. Able Team discovers that the fanatical Irish National Army of Liberation will attack the Royal Family in two days. . . .
U.S. agent Leo Turrin, already in London to find an infiltrator in the British counterterror network, gets some wild help as the American hotshots make meat stew out of ruthless attackers.
No quarter is spared. Justice by fire, worldwide!
U.S. agent Leo Turrin, already in London to find an infiltrator in the British counterterror network, gets some wild help as the American hotshots make meat stew out of ruthless attackers.
No quarter is spared. Justice by fire, worldwide!
- GenresAction
182 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1984
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August 11, 2024
The main event in this book has Able Team going to London to foil an Irish Republican terrorist plot to attack the Queen. It’s very silly, fairly reactionary and riddled with inaccuracies. It was still decently enjoyable though. The book also contains a Mack Bolan in Vietnam short story which is pretty great. Still pretty conservative politically (a leftie female journalist gets kidnapped by the Viet Cong and Bolan has to rescue her), but it’s tight and tense and the action is spot on.
January 30, 2024
This is actually two tales, the main at around 140 pages is Able Team in England. There is a terrorist plot against the Queen and they are there to stop it. Written by Stephen Mertz, overall it's fine. Also has a Vietnam days short story of about 40 pages of Mack Bolan. He has to rescue a silly female journalist who wandered off on her own and got caught by the VC. It's ok but it's pretty flawed and bout as silly as the journalist.
Can't really recommend unless you are just reading the series. It's fine, nothing wrong with it, just sort of middle of the road.
Can't really recommend unless you are just reading the series. It's fine, nothing wrong with it, just sort of middle of the road.
April 21, 2026
This bizarre fish-out-of-water tale sees Able Team tracking a cocaine shipment from New York to… England ???
According to mackbolan.com, ‘Flavell Ballam’ penned this tale, thought credit is given to long time Gold Eagle writer Stephen Mertz on the inside page of the book. I’m not sure who wrote it, but whoever did had probably never read an Able Team book up to that point.
The boys act totally out of character, in fact Gadgets has only about three or four sentences in the whole book, and none of them are the wise ass remarks he usually makes. Lyons isn’t really his normal unhinged self, and Politician doesn’t do much either.
It’s like the Team isn’t sure what their doing in England either, when I think Able Team, I think the gritty streets of LA or Miami, the jungles and mountains of South and Central America, or the sweltering hotspots of Southeast Asia or Africa. I don’t think England, and the boys don’t seem to have much motivation for going there except to help out long time
stony Man ally Leo Turrin.
At least include Unomundo or something as the coke supplier, but instead we are treated to a bush league Irish terrorist group who somehow manages to capture the entire royal family including the queen.
Average action, and a shortened novel at only 135 pages, and not even the Mack Bolan in Vietnam short story at the end of the book makes up for this mediocre Able Team.
According to mackbolan.com, ‘Flavell Ballam’ penned this tale, thought credit is given to long time Gold Eagle writer Stephen Mertz on the inside page of the book. I’m not sure who wrote it, but whoever did had probably never read an Able Team book up to that point.
The boys act totally out of character, in fact Gadgets has only about three or four sentences in the whole book, and none of them are the wise ass remarks he usually makes. Lyons isn’t really his normal unhinged self, and Politician doesn’t do much either.
It’s like the Team isn’t sure what their doing in England either, when I think Able Team, I think the gritty streets of LA or Miami, the jungles and mountains of South and Central America, or the sweltering hotspots of Southeast Asia or Africa. I don’t think England, and the boys don’t seem to have much motivation for going there except to help out long time
stony Man ally Leo Turrin.
At least include Unomundo or something as the coke supplier, but instead we are treated to a bush league Irish terrorist group who somehow manages to capture the entire royal family including the queen.
Average action, and a shortened novel at only 135 pages, and not even the Mack Bolan in Vietnam short story at the end of the book makes up for this mediocre Able Team.
December 28, 2016
A non-stop action ride, all be it short, 138 pages. This book starts off quick and never lets up. The team under cover a plot by a off shoot of the IRA running drugs for guns. It turns out much larger than that. The Queen is under threat at Windsor Castle.
This book was one of the better offerings from this series. It's not bogged down with to much flag waiving. The English setting is also a nice change of scenery. The only problem is that even at 138 pages, the author still pads the ending. Still an excellent outing.
This book was one of the better offerings from this series. It's not bogged down with to much flag waiving. The English setting is also a nice change of scenery. The only problem is that even at 138 pages, the author still pads the ending. Still an excellent outing.
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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