Deep Rampage

No where near as good as #57 Sky Killers but a very good read none the less. Interesting plot with the missile torpedoes and a very talented bunch of adversaries to be faced here. Action scenes abound in this title with Able Team having by far the majority over Phoenix Force and even having McCarter joining them at the end. Must admit I have a lot of time for Able Team who generally draw the short straw in these books to Phoenix Force but not here folks. If you are an Able Team fan this is the title for you, the boys kick the shit out of everything sent their way and perform some pretty good stunt/action scenes with the dropping onto the speeding train from the bridge and subsequent taking of the train probably the standout, some fine reading. The body count in this title is right up there with a Dan Schmidt title but I thought it fitted in pretty well with the ongoing storyline and when merged with the previously mentioned action scenes this is a good read. If I had not just recently read #57 Sky Killers by this author I would have definately rated this title a nine if not a ten absolutely loved it but the author has created a rod for his own back.

I enjoyed the action in this book, and the idea of using rocket-powered torpedoes was intriguing, but it wasn't as good as other books in the Stony Man series. I also found some of the inaccuracies distracting, like "thumbing the safeties" on Glocks. I own and carry multiple Glocks and the only control on any of them is the trigger.

I looked forward to this book after Sky Killers. To say that I am disappointed with it is an understatement. It was awful. So where do I begin? Let’s start with the boredom. It was a struggle to complete it, and I did want to complete it just so that I could give it an honest review. The plot is that the villains (the fact that it is Czech terrorists for a change does merit a star, and that the villains were at least interesting) have stolen the plans to a super torpedo and are now manufacturing them and selling them to anybody with $100,000 dollars. So far so good. But is seems that these torpedoes have been sold to every Tom, Dick and Harry group in the world, and the intelligence services didn’t even have a clue. So why was this boring? Because, we, the readers, are subjected to chapter after chapter of what these torpedoes can do, as highlighted in the beginning of the book. Oh, the carnage, oh the destruction and devastation! Are we told this once? Twice? No, we are subjected to it time and time again. It seems that all these Tom, Dick and Harry groups that bought the torpedoes also have the means and technical know how to get them into position and use the things. There is the opening attack at the US Navy base in the first chapter, where we learn what these torpedoes can do, but then there are the follow up attacks in Pearl Harbour, the attack on several whales in front of a Greenpeace ship, the attack on the Golden Gate Bridge (which I am ashamed to say I skipped because I was bored with it all) the attack on the Channel Tunnel and the attack on Zandvoort in The Netherlands. But not once do we learn why these targets are being attacked, or by whom. Who on earth wants to attack a Dutch seaside town? The Belgians? This irate reader from Kaatsheuvel? We are not told, simply because it is completely irrelevant to the plot and serves only to waste space in the book. And then there are all the inacuracies. Nick Pollotta did recieve critisim in his last novel, Sky Killers, for all the technical faults, including some from this reveiwer, so I was expecting more of the same here. I was not to be disappointed. In fact I was disappointed that Nick Pollotta would make so many more mistakes. Yes there are lots of little things, especially on the nautical side (although I was suprised to see that Nick knew that a submarine is refered to as a boat and not a ship), as well as Mr Pollotta seeming to think that 4 fully grown men can sit in a two seat Apache helicopter; but there was one major error in the novel that can only be put down to laziness, as there most certainly was no research carried out. In the opening of chapter five we are treated to the scene of people driving their cars through the Channel Tunnel from Britain to France. It makes a good scene for those of you that are unaware that the Chunnel only takes specialized trains, and that is one train in one direction in one tunnel. This error was even worse than the one in the film Mission: Impossible. I was disgusted by this lack of research on behalf of the author. I could go on and on about how bad this book was, but I would like to keep this review fairly short. So, I hated it and it recieves only one star for it’s villains. Oh, and Mr Pollotta, I also got fed up with the repeated references to the Prime Minister of England. It is the Prime Minister of BRITAIN. I had best stop now before I say any more.

Right On! This gets 8 out of 10 stars ! Right from the start I love the way Nick Pollita sets up the feeling of terror and frustration the military feels about getting hit. This had great action all around, though I think Able Team had more action than Phoenix Force did. It's great the way McCarter teamed up with Able at the end. But where was Mack? I have only begun reading Gold Eagle books again, and in #57 ( Sky Killers) Mack only did a cameo? It seems to me that when Stony Farm gets these do or die missions, they'd be calling in the Big Guy himself. What I like best was the "flashback" that Lyons and AT had, when the Mafia guy recognizes the Ironman. This really establishes a continuity in the series. I look forward to more of Pollita's books. Great book, 8 stars!

This book rocks!!!! I like it brought back people we have not heard from in a long time. PF and AT Kick A**! Also I like the set up for a future book on the Mob Guy they set a deal with. I think it can come back to bite them in the a**. I hope to read more books like this one. Live Large and Stay Hard.

I have to admit it, the past few Stony Man's have been a little dull but this one I throughly enjoyed. Sure I have been a big fan of Phoenix Force but Able Team really shows their colours in this novel. It was cool to hears from Toni after all this time. I still remember the time when she first meet Carl and called him Neanderthal Man. I highly recommend this book if someone is looking for some goo old fashioned action.

I gotta admit it... screw the fact that the 10mm Peregrine from Falcon Industries was vaporware (hey, so was the Atchisson), and the Atchisson has a box mag, Lyons slams clips of 12 gauge home, not thumbs them into his shotgun. It didn't matter. Two quaffles when the real golden snitch of this game was the fact that Able Team wasn't a limping sack of second raters in a series where they're supposed to be one half of the baddest motherfuckers on the planet. When Lyons tells Price "When we get called in, the shit's already hit the fan, lady. We're here to make the blood hit the fan." my smile was earhole to earhole. Sure, Phoenix Force did some ok ass kicking, but Able Team was back in G.H. Frost land. The mob sends twenty bad guys with automatic weapons to kill them, the mob ends up with twenty corpses and flaming cars in the street, because they attacked a fucking force of nature called Ironman, Gadgets and Politician. Able Team going with 10mm Glocks too - that was cool. They needed to try out something new. Maybe I can suggest to someone about having Kissenger trick out a 10mm Glock for realy heavy action. Mike Linnaker did a great job reminding us that three men can take on a ship full of terrorists. Nick Pollotta, however, gave them back their attitude - train jumping, mob blasting, thrillkiller slaughtering unconventional motherfuckers and a half. Welcome back, Able Team. NO MORE DINGO JONESES FOR YOU!

This was another solid story written by Nick, who weaves a yarn so suspenseful and interesting. One minor nitpick: the use of computers isn't accurate: When Stony Man institutes their cyber counter measures, making cookies disappear, and having LANs crashing really isn't probable (especially if the LANs don't have a router to the Internet!). But to accurately write about this technical stuff would make it really boring. So I'm not deducting any points for it.