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Phoenix Force · #47

Terror in Guyana

by William Fieldhouse · May 1990

7.0 / 10 average from 7 rated reviews

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An apparant connection between the cold-blooded murder of an American senator's son and the mass suicide of an entire farming community in Guyana prompts Washington to take direct action. The macabre deaths are reminiscent of the notorious People's Temple massacre of a decade earlier, but when Phoenix Force is parachuted onto the scene, they find that they are not up against the brainwashed members of a religious cult. A series of vicious ambushes, planned and executed with precision, point to a sophisticated enemy with military and political aims. In the steamy jungles of the interior, the mission goes hard as the Force relies on guerrilla tactics to flush out a terrorist group that is dead set on reliving a Nazi legacy.

Reviews (7)

KILO 11 8/10 May 18, 2016
I liked this book a lot. lot's of good action scenes. I especially liked the gun fight at the Ball. the last 19 books or so have seen 3 different stories involving Nazis. I like those story lines. any way a solid 8 star effort.
ice_cracked 6/10 February 4, 2008
I'm guessing here? In the last title a new President has been installed in the US and was considering closing down the Stony Man operation. Presuming he is still there he is being pressured by one of his senators whose son has disappeared in the jungles of Guyana. Coupled with this a mass suicide similar to the Jones incident a decade prior has occurred and he sends the Team on this mission? What follows is basically a detective novel where I lost count of the autopsies Calvin was involved with ditto the ballistics tests that Gary was involved in. A ridiculous scene ensues where after checking in to their hotel Gary and David enter the dining room and are invited to join the table of another group of diners for a meal. We then find out the host of the table which has offered the invitation is in fact the main villan, he is a Nazi extremist who is in the process of a takeover of the country (I thought he would have other things on his mind) than talking to a couple of strangers. The action scenes at the fund raising dinner excel where the President and Prime Minister are supposed to be killed by the terrorists is excellent reading. Some of the hand to hand fighting scenes in this section coupled with some knife and sword scenes also excels and the rating of this title comes from this section. Then the title collapses the Nazi villan has run to his castle and has thirty odd soldiers who are placed on alert to defend the castle from the imminent attack. So what happens is the Team attack with the aid of SIX tanks!!! and 200 soldiers!!! ???????? (am I missing something here?) RUBBISH and the title continues to its end with a couple of good scenes featuring the body guards one of whom wimps out (are they allowed to do that? we're talking Nazi extremists here) and the leader himself. Fair read but regarding the ordinary plot and storyline you have to admit the author has the action scenes down pat, too bad a lot of his titles lack something else. Maybe he was under pressure to deliver titles? Maybe he only wrote the action scenes and a ghost writer filled in the blanks? Whatever he has written some excellent titles and whilst this one has some good action scenes as per usual I'd say give it a miss unless you have to read it.
Eh Kay 7/10 October 22, 2006
A decent novel, good characters and some cool sleuth work by the boys of the Force. Autopsies, investigating crime scenes and some good action. Villains were interesting , but I didn't really buy their evil scheme. If the local people can't get along with each other and are sparked to violent protest in the street, they're gonna sit by and let the white MINORITY impose a Nazi regime ? Oh well the action makes up for that little curiosity . Check it out !
Monsta Mack 8/10 June 10, 2003
A thrilling entry in the series. Some scenes were a little similar to scenes found in earlier PF novels, but the whole book was very well written and exciting, with bad villains and great firefights. The fight in the ballroom was the best of the action scenes, with a gory battle involving Katz in the kitchen. The final assault was unusual with tanks being used, kind of cool, although it was sort of a cakewalk for the force. Another good book from Fieldhouse.
chris bolan 8/10 March 10, 2002
removing the threat of nazi's in our time is always uplifting. this book was a good one and i recommend it.
Glenn 5/10 March 17, 2001
This story had a very weak premise for using Phoenix Force: a sentor's son has gotten lost in South America, and it is up to you to find him. Phoenix Force arrives to find that the boy is dead, and by looking at bullet casings they deduce that Nazi's are involved. There then follows the usual story of giving scoplamine to captives to get clues, follwed by lots of wild deductions. I was almost siding with the CIA guy on this one. All in all this was just a rehashed story that went no where fast.
Gunslinger 7/10 May 19, 2000
This one had standard action and was pretty good, but nothing spectacular.