Firecross

This an excellent read and worth the wait struggling through some ordinary stuff in the last few titles of this series. The first 2/3 of the title is based in England and you will love some of the stuff that the team gets up to and local coppers are pulling their hair out, loved it. The final section with an assault on the terrorists location is very well done and even though Lyons is probably the star as he takes out the leader the rest of the team have very full co-starring roles in some writing which the readers of this series are/were hanging out for. Can't fault this title and highly recommend it for your perusal.

I agree with gulf vets review on this book. This one seemed like the author was throwing something together to meet a contract deadline. It was like reading a rough draft insome places. I often was confused about what was going on, the writing in some of the action scenes was sloppy and/or unbelievable. The villain in this story was too micky mouse for my taste. Arnett wrote some of the best Able Teams, like Iron God, WW III Game, and Death Ride. Firecross was too tedious to enjoy much, however, considering the action overload combined with sloppy writing just turned it to a mess. I hope Ron Renaulds' books are good, because I'm about to start on those.

This was top-notch until around halfway through, when it started to feel like more of a rough draft than a finished product. Arnett did a good job of writing strong female characters (Toni and Lao Ti) as well as the guys, but I wished the whole read would have been as satisfying as the front end.

This was okay. Tom Arnett really doesn't have the characters down completely. In the beginning, Kurtzman and Lyons are talking on the phone. Reference is made to Kurtzman's stilted language for fear of someone listening in. Well, if there's worry about that, then there shouldn't be any talk at all. An exchange between Kurtzman and Lyons as depicted above would never happen.

An awesome sequel to #12. We finally find out what happened to Lyons' load of buckshot that he fired at Jishin at the close of the first book. A lot of action, and Lyons battle with Jishin in the climax is great.

I like this one simply because it has McCarter in it plus Toni Blancanales (Pol's little sister) and Lao Ti. McCarter gets involved because Able Team hires him to be their guide in London. Also, this is one of the few times that Able Team's mission starts out as being unauthorized and on non-American (i.e. North/Central/South America) soil. I'm a big McCarter fan, so I loved how Toni's told "McCarter makes Lyons look like a gentleman by comparison". This is a character-packed novel; the action, while relatively sparse for the length of the novel, is vicious and deadly.

This was one of the first of the 220 page books which really put Able Team back in their element of being the bunch of ad-bass fothermuckers who tore their way through Unomundo's forces, death squads on the streets of LA, Sri Lanka, and other assorted massive waves of mayhem. Having Lao Ti back on the team, and working with McCarter was a great ride too. Is it me, or is Able at its best when it's running with almost no legal support. It's FUN to see Lyons putting the fear of God in his fellow lawmen.