Return to Armageddon

Wow! I really liked this book alot. Great action. Liked the villains and I liked that The Force member that was the Focus this time was Katz. Liked Rachel Stern. To bad she had to die. It seems when any memb we of the team get involved with they get killed. All in all very solid book 9 star effort.

Well what to say about this masterpiece? How about boring/tedious/repetitious. What a load of crap the only things which got it 3 stars was the action scenes which occurred over and over again BUT if the team are facing a drugged out mob of muslim fanatics with little military training are they going to be put to the test or are they going to just swat them like flies? It just goes on and on with attack after attack and they just keep on getting whacked. The spiritual leader of the group is a joke so much so that he is actually taken out by someone outside of the team during the "assault" on their headquarters at the end, why? I'll let you read it if you are interested. One thing for sure if you were a female you wouldn't want to get tied up with any of the team if you valued your time on this planet that is. Rafael's turn this time to fall for a lady and of course you can predict what will happen. As previously mentioned the weapon taken into battle by Keio was most strange and seemed just to have been written into the story for ? (Well buggered if I know). Didn't enjoy it or even like it if you want to read it well some people have enjoyed it but I'm not one of them.

“Return to Armageddon” is a pivotal book in the Phoenix Force series. If I was to introduce someone to the series, this would have been the first book to start with. The first ten entries were wildly uneven. Return to Armageddon is the first of eight in row by the same author. This mission starts as a Katz-centric mission, and ends up to be a personal mission for Encizo. He falls for someone. There is even a scene where he’s in bed, getting it on with a woman, with a Walther PPK in a shoulder holster nearby. How more James Bond can you get? But unlike Bond, he is not indestructible. Encizo gets so screwed up, he is limited in the next novel as well. This is also their first, but by far not their last, unauthorized mission. The novel is short, bloody and effective. This is where the series takes off.

This is another of that long line of Phoenix Force cartoon adventures. A not too bad plot idea with an ancient villain group brought in as the heavies. Should have been better. Some middle eastern crazies (i.e., moslems fundamentalists) have attempted to kill the Israeli prime minister. They'll try again so Katz is summoned to Mossad HQ. Katz calls the fellows. "Avengers asseble!" And that's all she wrote. There is a ton of action in this one. I don't think I'm stretching the truth to say that every scene with Phoenix Force ends with the lads ambushed by bloodthirsty moslem fanatics. Hordes of maddened mohammedans throw themselves into suicide attacks against the boys. Fortunately for our heroes, none of these martyr-seekers has taken the time to zero their weapons so that "A Team" like flurries of bullets result in narry a hit. (This is especially valuable since the Phoenix Force warriors take on the auto-fire weilding hordes with mostly .380 autos and the like - except for Manning who improvises a shoe bomb by dismantling his tape recorder in the middle of a firefight. I'm not makin' this stuff up.) Actually, the provisional martyrs try to use poison-dipped daggers a lot also which gives the good guys another big advantage. A last big battle scene during the attack on the loony stronghold is not any more exciting than the 10 or 12 earlier ones in spite of the curious use of an ancient samurai weapon by Keio (huh?). But McCarter's crossbow is pretty cool. Not much to recommend this one. The action is all it has going for it and really the level of realism for the action scenes is about 2 steps below classic "Jonny Quest". Rafael has a romantic interest who suffers from Cartwright's Bride syndrome. Nothing special there. The supporting characters are not memorable and the idea of Katz and his four buddies taking over security for the Israeli prime minister is a bit far-fetched to say the least. 2 stars, mostly for that crossbow.

if i remeber correctly this book was very exciting and i read it in one day. I thought it was a great story and i found it hard to put down. good job gar.

The action was fast and furious. A great book.

Wonderful- I love the ones where they go off without the proper authority. Again a very fast paced book.