Fire Burst

A decent start to this trilogy, where Phoenix Force and Bolan are called on to eradicate neo-nazi factions. Bolan takes on one group in California, while PF goes to Germany to take down another group there. The action is consistent and well done. The main villains take shape during the course of the book, as secondary badguys come and go. Newton does a goo0d job here in describing what kind of beliefs these guy have and what motivates them. Having these guys get blown away is a better satisfaction than the average terrorist! Newton's familiar plot device of a woman ally getting captured and Bolan turning up the heat on them, letting a badguy survive to send a message and later contacting the boss by phone, demanding the woman's release or the heat continues, is again used here, but overall a fairly solid, well told action book. The battles at the end of the book, both in L.A. and in Germany, are excellent action scenes to close out the first volume. Pratt, the main villain in Bolan's side of the mission will star in the next book as well, and the other main villains that were only briefly touched on in book one will hopefully take more of the center stage. A solid beginning to the terror trilogy.

This was going okay until... Mr. Mike Newton HOW many times are you going to have the kidnapped ally of Bolan held hostage whilst the big guy rattles cages to get him/her/them back ? You have included this plot in perhaps four/five of your previous books to date. A man of your writing talent doesn't have to resort to this. Apart from my gripe the book reads okay and a good start to the trilogy. my two bobs worth........

WAY TO START A TRILOGY! EXPLOSIVE ACTION AND GREAT BEGINNING TO ONE OF THE BETTER TRILOGIES.

This was just one confrontation after another, but it was one of the better books that I had read for a long time.