Now It Can Be Told

Able Team and Phoenix Force were two commando teams formed as part of the Stony Man super-novels. The first of these featured Mack Bolan and the two teams, who provided support for a large-format adventure.

Able Team and Phoenix Force eventually became their own spinoff series through Gold Eagle, and charted somewhere between a dozen and twenty or thirty novels each, I think; I don't recall the exact numbers. Those series were eventually cancelled and Able Team and Phoenix Force became the stars of the Stony Man series, which is still active today. (I should know; I've written one of the Stony Man adventures that has not yet been published. It's damned hard keeping eight different primary characters straight -- three for Able Team and five for Phoenix Force.)

These days, Mack Bolan is equipped with a Beretta 93R and a Desert Eagle in .44 Magnum, though in any individual novel he could carry a variety of other supporting hardware, the latest high-tech assault rifle, etc. I generally try to give him something new and exciting now and again in order to keep it interesting, but he is always equippped with those two handguns as a baseline.
 
Hey thanks for the tip Phil! I'm always looking for a good book to read and one written by a fellow forums member makes it all the better. I'll have to look those up at Barnes and Noble.Thanks again!
 
I've noticed that Barnes and Noble usually does carry these, in the general Fiction alphabetically under "Pendleton" (the deceased creator of the series). I generally don't find them at Borders, by contrast, though I suppose that varies from store to store.
 
Phil this thread answered a question that I've been meaning to ask you. I've only been on Blade Forums in earnest for a year and cant recall seeing you post up until a month or two ago. Your post count is high, and you've been a member since '02 and seem to be very active in posting and reviews.

Who's Don Pendleton?

EDITED: Just read the answer... are you credited on the books anywhere?
 
Yes, if you look on the copyright page of any Executioner novel, you'll see a line that says, "Special thanks and acknowledgement to [some guy] for his contribution to this work." The [some guy] is always the person who wrote the novel. Jerry Van Cook, for example, has written well over 40 of these things.
 
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