Kill Radius

The story continues here in book two. This is more of a Stony Man story than an Executioner. Able Team and Phoenix Force are all on the job working with Bolan on the mission now. Bolan continues to figure out if the President of Mexico is a good guy or a bad guy, and Mack himself now becomes a target of the enemy. Able Team's role is decent reading, and PF gets a spotlight, mostly in one of the tunnels under the border. More of the creepy brothers from the opening of the trilogy get involved in the story. Good action and tense scenes abound throughout the book, but be prepared for a multitude of editorial gaffs everywhere. Was this manuscript even proofread? Anyway as a middle book for the trilogy, it held up the storytelling and momentum from the first book well.

Like the previous one, this was a decent continuation of the plot. It started to turn into a Stony Man with all the teams coming together. Bolan and Able pair up to find out what the Mexican President is up to. And Phoenix tries to take out a drug pipeline. Action in the beginning was good as the terrorists try to hit the President's villa. Phoenix's arc was tense with their drug tunnel shootout. And the finale of Bolan getting kidnapped and his narrow escape was a change of pace.

Oh yeah this title continues the story of the trilogy and further details the sub plots and characters introduced. More members of Phoenix Force enter the storyline as well as Able Team and Leo Turin and the story glides along. There are many many fine sections in this title with a couple of the standouts being the drugging of Mack by the brothers, the following of the Mexican President and what he is up to in a hotel room (classic humour between Mack and Able Team here), one of Phoenix critically wounded and the way David assists a green recruit through his first taste of real action. I thoroughly enjoyed this title and am very much looking forward to reading the final instalment of the trilogy. Highly recommended reading folks.

A top-notch entry into the Bolan series and a strong middle novel to this trilogy. Usually the middle novels are the weakest in Bolan trilogies but that's not the case here. Van Cook's characterizations of both Stony Man strike teams was dead on. I felt like PF & AT were back to their old selves here. The author takes several different stories and weaves them together nicely to make one central story. I can't wait to read book#3 and see how it all concludes.

I hate needless diversions in novels. I hated the fact that the last parts of Able's trip in Alaska is described along with PF's trip to Iran. Pointless diversions. It didn't propel the storyline nor add anything to it. More time should have been spent on the border, at SM, or with Brognala instead of wasting it on Alaska or Iran. I did like the scenes at the border especially in the tunnel with three PF members on one side and two on the other. That was exciting and nearly made up for those pointless diversions. Why doesn't Bolan always wear a kevlar vest or all PF/Able members? In some novels Bolan always is wearing one in this trilogy he is not. He should have had one on under his shirt at the Blanco summer home. The scene with Able team and Bolan eavesdropping on Blanco was a riot - predictable but a riot. At least it answered the reason why Blanco loves that singer's voice. Robert and Santiago nearly outwitted Bolan. Kind of surprised me. Speaking of which does every man carry a knife hidden in their back shorts? Sheesh. By book 3 it got really annoying - yes I know this is a review of book 2. i also liked seeing the human side of McCarter and that young DEA agent. I thought it was amusing how Chris thought it was so nice getting a battle scar. I would have liked to have read more about the politics about the situation. It seemed like in this book we read snippets about what was happening but some pages could have been spent with Brognala or on phone calls to SM so that SM could give them info.

this was good book lots of action.got me on the edge of my seat for most of it. another good Bolan book.

This is the way it's suppose to be!!! Page-by-page action, this one with Phoenix Force and Able Team also involved. There are a lot of things that will be covered in book 3, and I can't wait to read it.

The middle part of the Border Fire trilogy starts literally minutes after the end of the last book, and plops us into the middle of the action right away, as well as neatly sewing up plot elements from the first book. We finally get to see Able Team in action, doing their bit in Alaska before a bullet blasting and snoop and pooping night in Mexico, and finally a classic Ironman scene to cap it off, promising one hell of a splash in part three. Phoenix Force comes in (with a hoot of a cover name), and the team in force gets involved in one of the most dangerous nights of their careers, leaving one of Phoenix down, and an entire border full of smugglers spreading their powdered death ready to loom against them. And finally, Bolan. He doesn't get as much action as the others, but the big guy's brain is always fun to watch working, and yeah, he gets two great battles, and dropped into a very hairy scenario at the end. This is one trilogy that didn't put on the brakes and squeal to a stop at the end of every book, even though they had nice, concise endings. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm on my way home now, to go get part 3 out of my shipment box and start devouring it.

A good solid middle to the trilogy. I found it did drag a little compared to the first, but I guess I could expect them from the fact that its the middle book. I thought it was a great that Able/Phoenix were brought in (gave the book a StonyMan feel). I thought it was a nice touch including the character of Chris towards the end to show that not everyone is fearless in combat. McCarter handles his fear with sensitivity - that was cool. It sounds like Part III is going to be pretty cool - there was a lot of setup going on in this one for a nice comfrontation (especially with some of Bolan's finds in his room!) I was a bit disappointment we didn't see more of Hix. I thought his character was cool but he was only mentioned like 2 or 3 times it seemed. I guess since he's captive there's not a whole lot of story going on anyway. . . . Is it just me or did anyone else notice a lot of spelling errors in #250 and #251 - not a big deal for me but I did notice more errors in these ones than in others. Can't wait for Part III!

Good middle entry for the trilogy. Lots of loose ends to be tied up in part III. I am interested to if Mack gets to confront this witch lady once and for all. Able Team gets sent on its own mission, but it may not develop into very much. Phoenix Force is well represented in this book w/ one of the member's getting shot twice. Overall, a good quick read and I look forward to Part III to wrap all these storylines up.