Books in series
#1
Tower of Terror
1982
A Wall Street skyscraper had been invaded. Hostages were being held - and, with them, enough confidential banking data to imperil the entire world.
Ugly, city-wide panic was inevitable until Able Team was called in. Carl Lyons, Pol Blancanales and Gadgets Schwarz were the only possible hardmen for such a mission.
The invaders claimed to be FALN, the Puerto Rican terrorist group. But they were not who they said they were, and their huge quantity of devastating armament appeared to have come from. . . the Vietnamese.
#2
The Hostaged Island
1982
Seventy-two filthy, vicious motorcycle hoodlums have taken over the fantasy isle of Catalina off the coast of Los Angeles. Their hostages are the island s seventeen hundred inhabitants, cowering from the butchery.
Also kidnapped are six top government thinkers attending a secret conference. The survival of everyone is paramount to the national security experts who call in Able Team.
Lyons, Blancanales and Schwarz begin a counter-insurgency of ruthless force. The terror cyclists have done far more than trash a tourist playground. So the strategy is: smash the whole scene into shards of blazing action!
#3
Texas Showdown
1982
A power-hungry Texas billionaire was planning to stage a revolution in Mexico. But the FBI and CIA knew only that their agents, sent to infiltrate his mysterious strike force of elite mercs, had suffered horrible deaths.
The president's decision - send in Able Team!
Breaking through the high security of the crazen Texan s base, Bolan s reborn Death Squad begins a blitzing series of combat events that bring them into the very hellheart of the drug wars of Bolivia and the Caribbean - and the sex war of the billionaire s Mexican debutante wife.
Surrounded by assassination, betrayal, and revenge, Gadgets Schwarz, Pol Blancanales and Carl Lyons must not fail - only they can stop open war between the United States and Mexico.
#4
Amazon Slaughter
1983
Wei Ho was death incarnate. He could slake his thirst for blood whenever and wherever he wanted. He had chosen the hunters of his private army very carefully - they were some of the most vicious hoodlums in the world.
Now he had his own plutonium factory. And it was protected by a web of organized intrigue. Only one squad could take out Wei Ho and prevent global tragedy: Mack Bolan s Able Team!
To neutralize Ho s goulish scheme, Lyons, Schwarz, and Blancanales probed to the core of the maniac s domain in South America - but all they found there were blameless native slaves. Would there be a massacre of innocents before the despots could be delivered to hell?
#5
Cairo Countdown
1983
The U.S. maintained a top-secret air-force base in Cairo. And it operated right out of the international airport!
Suddenly a terrorist rampage threatened to reveal the covert American presence in egypt. No known intelligence agency could risk exposure to break this attack on one of America s biggest secrets. Therefore, in the name of Mack Bolan, come in Able!
But the terrorists had crack killer-teams of their own- and they would not hesitate to use them.
#6
Warlord of Azatlan
1983
Dispatched by the President to investigate a multimillion-dollar weapons-for-drugs exchange, Able Team probed deep into the wilds of Guatemala. There, The Executioner' s top squad of death dealers fell into a bloody maze of terror.
Unexpected allies led the three hotshots to the source of a conspiracy to assassinate the Christian leader of Guatemala and to annihilate that nation's newborn forces of democracy and liberty.
Surrounded by genocidal war and devoted courage, Able Team discovered the greatest horror yet in the campaign against international terrorism: a fascist plot to seize all of Central America and then all the nations of the new world. . . for the resurrection of the Third Reich!
#7
Justice By Fire
1983
From New York to Los Angeles, kill squads were murdering career criminals and psychopathic killers.
The public welcomed these "executions" of rapists and murderers whom the courts had failed to imprison.
Silencing critics with death, the death squads blew away outspoken media stars, Black nationalists, Communist agitators. . .all int he guise of law and order. But the truth was that the squads were working for the enemies of America.
Democracy had ruptured, spilling out chaos. The president responded with his own squad of death-dealing hotshots - Mack Bolan's Able Team!
#8
Army of Devils
1983
As incidents of frenzied murder and mutilation terrorize Los Angeles, police chemists discover a new drug sweeping through the gang subculture.
"Crazy dust" - a variant of PCP one hundred times more addicting than heroin - creates inhuman monsters willing to go to any extremes to finance their addiction.
Drugged gangs wander neighborhoods. Crazed punks besiege police stations, ambush narco strike squads with automatic weapons. Only Able Team has the guts - and the firepower - to combat a Soviet plot to destroy democracy with a proxy army of drug-mad devils.
#9
Kill School
1983
Dispatched to return fascist commander Col. Roberto Quesada to face the televised spectacle of trial in the United States, Able Team drops into the free-fire zone of El Salvador's Morazan province.
A Salvadoran army commando, obsessed with revenge for his " disappeared" father and brother, guides Able Team across a landscape of terror and atrocity.
Then a coded radio transmission from Washington, D.C. betrays Able Team. Battling against Stalinist assassins, the three North Americans pursue Quesada into the lost world of the Honduran mountains - where Pan-American Nazis are training the shock troopers of a New World Reich.
#10
Royal Flush
1984
Able Team's mission: a cocaine bust in Manhattan. But a crooked trail soon takes the three aces of death to Windsor Castle in England. Able Team discovers that the fanatical Irish National Army of Liberation will attack the Royal Family in two days...
U.S. agent Leo Turrin, already in London to find an infiltrator in the British counterterror network, gets some wild help as the American hotshots make meat stew out of ruthless attackers.
No quarter is spared. Justice by fire, worldwide!
#11
Five Rings of Fire
1984
A tragedy perpetrated by heartless savages bloodies the training gym of America's leading female athletes.
The horror continues as a busload of Zambian athletes is kidnapped in a blood-splashed encounter at Los Angeles airport. Able Team checks out dead goons at the scene and recognizes them as professionals. They smell KGB.
The President grants Carl Lyons - Able Team's "Mr. Ironman" - emergency command of the armed forces. The erupting war pits Lyons and his partners against unparalleled savagery - and zaps him right up against his old employer, the LAPD.
Able Team deserves the gold for their killing skills against impossible odds!
#12
Deathbites
1984
Terrorist death squads wipe out three leading U.S. computer research facilities and push America to the precipice of computer chaos.
The program was always the same - murderous precision, total extermination, no human mercy.
A sole survivor of one of the silicon-chip massacres guides Able Team to the hidden data bank that directs the terrorists in their program for panic. While the beautiful and brainy Lao Ti taps into the death data, Carl Lyons, Gadgets, and Politician pursue an army of psychotic misfits.
The computer world trembles under the onslaught of the terrorist strike force as Able Team, joined by Phoenix Force and Hal Brognola, launches a fierce counterattack to shatter the circuits of savagery.
#13
Scorched Earth
1984
Scorched Earth by Dick Stivers released on Jun 22, 1984 is available now for purchase.
#14
Into the Maze
1984
When the Able Team takes on a huge new drug ring working in Mexico they face betrayal from both the U.S. and Mexican governments
#15
They Came to Kill
1984
They Came To Kill by Dick Stivers released on Oct 25, 1984 is available now for purchase.
#16
Rain Of Doom
1985
In Beirut, an American voice speaks into the telephone:
"We'll never forget the Beruit bomb. Tell the mullahs they can run, they can hide, but the posse of the Apocalypse rides in the night. The payback will not quit until we have killed Khomeini. . . "
#17
Fire And Maneuver
1985
In the steaming Colombian jungle the hardcore vets of Able Team hunt a vicious killer and find themselves caught up in an all-or-nothing war between two rival drug syndicates.
The Team is on a search-and-destroy mission, but when the hunters become the hunted there is only one way to stay alive: fire and maneuver.
#18
Tech War
1985
A top-secret U.S. laser that can etch the entire NORAD defense computer on a chip has been stolen and is on its way to Russia.
The laser is a high-tech threat capable of neutralizing United States defense capacity, and the President authorizes Able Team to take "any action necessary" to block the transshipment. It's a computer end game and a new war - a Tech War.
#19
Ironman
1985
Able Team's Carl Lyons travels to the cloud-swept Sierra Madre without his partners and without his weapons. but what was supposed to be well-earned R&R turns into a nightmare of conspiracy and terror when a Fascist International surveillance team identifies Lyons as one of the American specialists who wrecked Unomundo's attempt to seize Guatemala two years earlier.
The International wants the Ironman alive - at least until they can turn him against Able Team.
#20
Shot to Hell
1985
An American journalist is tortured and murdered in Central America, but not before he tips off a CIA operative to the presence of Russian XCT missiles in the Honduran jungle. The Pentagon looks for a small mobile team to go in and neutralize the threat and comes up with the three strike-force veterans of Able Team. But somebody deep in the American war office is out to make sure Able Team's mission is on a one-way ticket to hell.
#21
Death Strike
1985
Carl Lyons is a prisoner of the Fascist International, and his longtime nemesis Miguel de la Unomundo is offering the Able Team vet an escape from his brain-twisting torture.
The pain was the hammer and the anvil between which Unomundo would smash Lyons until his sanity shattered. And then he would remold the antiterrorist specialist in his own image.
If a man sells his loyalty, he'll sell anything . . .or anyone!
#24
Blood Gambit
1986
An American traitor plans to let terrorists steal a top military secret for the Soviets. The prize is a computer known as the "Little General," and it would give Russia the edge in the arms race.
Able Team is assigned to baby-sit the high-priced piece of high tech at a chess tourney.
Everything looks okay until the hijackers make their opening move their last!
#25
Hard Kill
1986
His name is Kadal, and he's an assassin on the loose in New York City. Hired by a Shiite splinter group to sabotage the signing of a treaty that could end the bloodshed in Lebanon, Kadal's mission is to kill any of the delegates.
The FBI discovers the plot and puts a twenty-four-hour watch on the hit man. Then the head of their female informant shows up in a box, and Kadal vanishes.
The President orders Able Team to stop this killer, whatever it takes!
#26
The Iron God
1986
The waves crashed against the shore as a thousand athletes took to the water. It was the start of Hawaii's famed Ironman Triathlon. It was also phase one of an ingenious Russian plot against America.
When Able Team's own Ironman, Carl Lyons, joins the race to shadow the Soviets, the grueling competition quickly becomes a full-scale mission.
With the integrity of America's intelligence network on the line, the commandos of Able Team find themselves locked in a gritty, muscle-wrenching race against time.
#27
Cajun Angel
1968
It's Hot Water!
And the men of Able Team are in it right up to their necks. When someone close to Carl Lyons goes missing, her disappearance is linked to the theft of five tons of nuclear waste from a Louisiana storage facility.
While Ironman follows the trail of the missing woman, Blancanales, Schwarz, and Kissinger set out to track down the radioactive garbage. But all the clues lead to a group of white supremists, and Able Team realizes itís been chasing one enemy - an enemy bent on contaminating the water supply of New York City.
#30
Hit And Run
1987
They were modern-day marauders - searching for anything they could turn into a buck. When documents outlining America's defense program fall into their hands, the robbers put up the plans for sale, inviting only the Americans and the Russians to make an offer.
The United States is down to its last line of defense, but when Able Team is asked to place America's bid, Hal Brognola hesitates. He's not sure if his men can do the job. Carl Lyons and his fellow Able Team hotshots don't agree - they refuse to let themselves be outbid!
#33
Cowboy's Revenge
1987
Racial tension reaches a new boiling point in the Deep South as a crazed preacher goes on a one-man blitz of terror. The maniac's instrument of death is a weapon designed years earlier by Able Team's master gunsmith, John "Cowboy" Kissinger.
On the trail of this serial killer, Carl Lyons and his commandos clash with the deadly reborn Aryan Right Coalition in a frantic race to prevent a political assassination. But it's Kissinger who sets out to terminate the man most responsible for the violent explosion of race hatred ... a man Cowboy once called "friend".
#35
Strike Force
1988
Attending a baseball fantasy camp in Florida, Gadgets Schwarz learns that his boyhood idol, Doug Bendix is involved with organized crime and discovers a secret drug operation
#39
Death Code
1988
A biologist puts his mutated strain of oil-eating bacteria up for sale - and Allah's Blade wants it. Once introduced into the hold of a supertanker, the bacteria will swiftly contaminate the ship's priceless cargo.
Hiring L.A. thugs as muscle, the terrorists destroy a tanker of oil off the West Coast, and the President quickly orders his Able Team warriors to California.
When a wounded Carl Lyons is captured, his colleagues are left with one course of action: they must deliver a lethal burst of 9 mm slugs with Allah's name stamped on every one.
#40
Blood Mark
1989
Carl Lyons and his warriors hit Las Vegas for the wedding of an old friend. But when Vincent Hobb's nephew is framed for murder, the Team goes into action.
The syndicate is behind the frame-up; Billy Hobbs knew too much. But equally disturbing is the resurrection of the Aryan Right Coalition - a group of white power supremists hired by the Mob. ARC has tangled with Able Team before.
Able Team takes a wild ride through the neon jungle of the Vegas strip. They owe Vincent Hobbs and Washington wants ARC destroyed. This time the Team must leave its mark - in blood!
#44
Night Heat
1989
It's a kill-two-vultures-with-one-grenade mission that takes Able Team to the Lone Star State. While rousting bandits preying on illegals heading north, they're on the lookout for a group of nuke-carrying terrorists moving up through Mexico for an attempted strike at the heart of America.
But Carl Lyons and his men stumble onto something even bigger - an underground railroad for illegals that doubles as a command post for Communist sympathizers operating out of Central America. Now an El Salvador Secret Police "death squad" has joined the party - and for Able Team that means it's time to gate-crash!
#46
Counterblow
1990
Able Team has stalked some prize booty in its career - but ten million dollars in Asian emeralds heads the list. Especially when the gems are rumored to be hidden with a top-secret document smuggled out of Hanoi by a Communist defector. The President wants that document fast or the press will have a field day with national security info sure to reopen wounds of the Vietnam War.
Their vendetta for the "forgotten war" still burning, Carl Lyons and his men are met with unfriendly fire in San Francisco's Chinatown and big trouble in L.A.is Little Saigon. In a treasure hunt to the death, Able Team now heads the Most Wanted list - of Hanoi's secret police!
#47
Shadow Warriors
1990
Behind the walls of a remote military installation in New Mexico, a select group of shadow warriors - covertly backed by Pentagon heavies - is secretly planning the most daring coup in Americaís history. Fed up with crime, corruption and urban unrest, the men have decided to take matters into their own hands: they will overthrow the U.S. government.
The President needs a few good men - warriors tough - or crazy - enough to fight a squad of the meanest, toughest fanatics who ever squeezed off a 9 mm round. It takes only one phone call. Able Team is ready for action.
#51
Skinwalker
1990
Able Team goes north when a bizarre man-beast locks an Alaskan village in a grip of terror. It seems its appetite runs to local Eskimo fighting a proposed multibillion-dollar off-shore oil-drilling operation.
This skinwalker may be the stuff of Eskimo legend, but the vicious jaws that mangled Gadgets Schwarz's leg are real - and so is the group of mercs hired by the oil company. Their idea of diplomacy begins with auto-fire.
In a showdown to the end, the land of snow and ice feels the heat of Able Team.
Authors
Dick Stivers
Author · 19 books
"Dick Stivers" is a house name of the publisher.
Don Pendleton
Author · 203 books
Don Pendleton was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, December 12, 1927 and died October 23, 1995 in Arizona. He wrote mystery, action/adventure, science-fiction, crime fiction, suspense, short stories, nonfiction, and was a comic scriptwriter, poet, screenwriter, essayist, and metaphysical scholar. He published more than 125 books in his long career, and his books have been published in more than 25 foreign languages with close to two hundred million copies in print throughout the world. After producing a number of science-fiction and mystery novels, Don launched in 1969 the phenomenal Mack Bolan: The Executioner, which quickly emerged as the original, definitive Action/Adventure series. His successful paperback books inspired a new particularly American literary genre during the early 1970's, and Don became known as "the father of action/adventure." "Although The Executioner Series is far and away my most significant contribution to world literature, I still do not perceive myself as 'belonging' to any particular literary niche. I am simply a storyteller, an entertainer who hopes to enthrall with visions of the reader's own incipient greatness." Don Pendleton's original Executioner Series are now in ebooks, published by Open Road Media. 37 of the original novels. Wikipedia: Don Pendleton
