Stony Man · #106

High Assault

by Nathan Meyer · April 2010

8.5 / 10 average from 2 rated reviews

The determined enemies of peace and democracy command the response of Stony Man. Off the books and off the record, the commandos of America's crack defense unit willingly put their lives on the line in the name of freedom. Radical engagement A break in intelligence puts Stony Man on a rapid-fire mission to halt a massive terrorist attack in American's heartland. Able Team hits the streets of Caracas, Venezuela, hunted by political death squads while working to crush Iran's powerful narco-pipeline to the States. Across the globe in Basra, Phoenix Force gets betrayed and burned in the hellgrounds- targeted, outnumbered, and outgunned. But Stony Man has been to hell and back many times before. They don't intend to fail now.

Reviews (2)

Digger 7/10 September 14, 2014

I agree with the previous review in that there is lots of intense action and both teams take their fare share of punishment. But I do have a few issues over and above the one mentioned which I agree is very annoying and happening far too much. First the author seems to either be confused or didn't do his research on PF. While in Basra he has T.J. as the sniper and Manning as the electronics whiz, which is backwards. Second when AT is escaping the tower and the elevator crashes causing serious injuries, well this was hard to imagine since the building was fairly new and all new construction since like the fifties have elevator safety brakes to avoid this type of thing. Overall though a very good read.

ice_cracked 10/10 September 14, 2011

Brilliant from start to finish you will be gripped and taken along for the ride, this is just so good you can't put the bloody thing down when reading it. Action Action Action Action non stop this is a very special title in this series. Without giving anything away there is a section in the title featuring Phoenix Force set in Basra Iraq which with a couple of scenes featuring Able Team goes around 100 pages. I am amazed the author could keep up the excitement level and pulse racing I experienced when reading this title for this amount of time and features a very tragic event to one of the Team which is a life and death situation. Able Team feature nicely as well but take a bit of a backseat in this one whilst Phoenix is doing their thing in Iraq. One thing I have to mention as it annoys me so much when I come across it in these titles and it seems to me to happen way too much. Gadgets is in hospital so Carl and Pol are together taking down the terrorists by themselves. Imagine this just the two of them in a very exciting passage of the title as Carl is diving to escape an RPG fired in his direction. He lifts his head after the explosion and sees James standing above him <huh>? then in the next paragraph James has morphed back into Pol. Umm what is the proof reader/editor etc. doing? how can this be missed if someone is doing their job properly not just going through the motions? Not enough to deduct a star for though this title is brilliant and very much recommended reading in these series. This is so good that I would read it again some time in the distant future but maybe won't have to wait that long when reading this series in order ;-) Do yourself a favour and read this one.