Death Ride

Been reading MB, PF, AT and SM for some time now and this books reminded me why I should be reading them in order. I was surprised to see a fourth member of AT, Lao Ti. Another major flaw was the author mixed up the physical descriptions of Pol and Gadgets, Gadets is the older one with the grey hair. And their were way too many outsiders invited into the secret lair of Stony Man, why doesn`t the whole world know about that place now is beyond me. Also using an unknown pilot instead of Grimaldi makes no sense to me.

Nah sorry whilst I agree with the previous reviews of this title that the action scenes were good the rest was rubbish. Briefly some kids are rescued from the clutches of Libyan terrorists and their escape was quite well done down the river on rafts. BUT......... Where are they taken where in the whole of the US? Why to the ultra secret Stony Man base of course. OK they are safe of course no one could find them there could they? Well as a matter of fact one of the women looking after them (who is tied up with the terrorists) catches a ride with one of the Stony Man night shift staff to go and do a bit of shopping and will be picked up at 6.00pm to be returned by someone else? So ensues the location of the base is conveyed to the terrorists and a half arsed attack is launched where a few of the guards are killed but when Able Team arrive on the scene the terrorists nick off. So? Okay Stony Man farm is not safe so we will transfer the kids to an unused airfield where they will be okay. But no this location is also known to the terrorists and goodness me the terrorists are actually on their way there now. Why? well to kill the kids of course as it will make worldwide headlines? So Able Team take off in the captured 747 of the terrorists with the previous flight crew on board but flown by Jack and a ringin mate of his to land where it can't be done at the disused airfield. Needless to say it is done and it is on as the terrorists are just arriving. A fair action scene ensues where the leader is taken out by guess who. BUT the terrorists all toss in the towel as their water supply has been found by one of the original flight crew and he has thrown their empty water bottles to them showing them that Oh No when the sun comes up you will be thirsty so give up or take off now. HUH? Very disappointing, pretty ordinary terrorists lacking dedication to the cause I'm thinking. Sorry not one I would recommend to read in this series.

Like The Iron God, the author packs more action than you can shake a stick at in this book. One of the better books in this series.

And what a ride it was. Good action from Arnett, and one of the memorable times when Lyons goes ballistic.