Post by englishteacherx on Nov 11, 2006 7:36:54 GMT -5
I didn't see this excellent series mentioned anywhere -- it came out in the early-mid 80's:
DENNISON'S WAR by Adam Lassiter. Dennison was your basic kind of private-sector spook, leading a small band of people he sent on various missions.
Titles include:
DENNISON'S WAR, the first in the series, in which Dennison's band fight against a couple of homegrown terrorists-for-hire, the Mafia and a corrupt army Colonel
TRIANGLE, featuring Dennison's right hand man, a Vietnamese badass named Vang, fighting a drug lord in Southeast Asia
HELL ON WHEELS, featuring a Hispanic woman whose name I've forgotten -- I think she was a former Nicaraguan freedom-fighter, or something like that -- taking on an attempt to organize all the motorcycle gangs in the US. (You can tell, however, that the only research the author did about motorcycle gangs was read HELL'S ANGELS by Hunter S. Thompson -- most of the biker pranks presented therein are repeated in this book almost verbatim.)
and my favorite:
CONTE'S RUN, featuring Matt Conte, a former Mafia hitman, trying to rescue a scientist (I think she was working on the Star Wars program -- she knew something valuable, anyway) who has been kidnapped by the World's Deadliest Assassin(TM), holding her on his island in the Phillipines before auctioning her off to the highest bidder.
A great read, that one -- the World's Deadliest Assassin trains, on his island, by telling the pygmies on the island that they'll get a million bucks should they succeed in killing him. He's out for a walk and three come after him -- he BLINDFOLDS himself before taking them all out with a machete. A classic pulp moment.
But in general the books were tightly paced, fairly realistic, and had better-than-average writing.
DENNISON'S WAR by Adam Lassiter. Dennison was your basic kind of private-sector spook, leading a small band of people he sent on various missions.
Titles include:
DENNISON'S WAR, the first in the series, in which Dennison's band fight against a couple of homegrown terrorists-for-hire, the Mafia and a corrupt army Colonel
TRIANGLE, featuring Dennison's right hand man, a Vietnamese badass named Vang, fighting a drug lord in Southeast Asia
HELL ON WHEELS, featuring a Hispanic woman whose name I've forgotten -- I think she was a former Nicaraguan freedom-fighter, or something like that -- taking on an attempt to organize all the motorcycle gangs in the US. (You can tell, however, that the only research the author did about motorcycle gangs was read HELL'S ANGELS by Hunter S. Thompson -- most of the biker pranks presented therein are repeated in this book almost verbatim.)
and my favorite:
CONTE'S RUN, featuring Matt Conte, a former Mafia hitman, trying to rescue a scientist (I think she was working on the Star Wars program -- she knew something valuable, anyway) who has been kidnapped by the World's Deadliest Assassin(TM), holding her on his island in the Phillipines before auctioning her off to the highest bidder.
A great read, that one -- the World's Deadliest Assassin trains, on his island, by telling the pygmies on the island that they'll get a million bucks should they succeed in killing him. He's out for a walk and three come after him -- he BLINDFOLDS himself before taking them all out with a machete. A classic pulp moment.
But in general the books were tightly paced, fairly realistic, and had better-than-average writing.