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!
#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.
#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
Authors
Dick Stivers
Author · 13 books
"Dick Stivers" is a house name of the publisher.
Don Pendleton
Author · 129 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
