S.O.B.s · #31

The Barrabas Thrust

by Rich Rainey · July 1989

5.0 / 10 average from 2 rated reviews

Fear and terror sweep in from the Atlantic, threatening to rock American security and transform down-home folks into a lynch mob. Vicious slander, a verdict of guilty, death by assassination- this is the modus operandi of a London-based left-wing group. Their victims to date have been prominent British politicians, but in a desperate drive to push their goals to completion they have selected a new target: Teddy "Tsar" Nicholas, director of the CIA! Only the free-style fighting tactics of a crack commando squad can contain and destroy the terrorist menace. Nile Barrabas and his soldiers are up to the job, and they hit the mission at a dead run.

Reviews (2)

The Phantom 5/10 November 4, 2018

The setting for this book is England, and the villain is one of the oddest I can remember. A snuff film director has grander plans as he uses his trade to use propaganda to make the public think his little group of terrorists are the heroes as they take out various targets he doesn't like. His motivations are not all that clear other than he is a bad guy and he happens to be a film-maker. Some mild entertainment value can be found here and there in this novel, but overall I didn't really think it was all that good. I kept waiting for things to take off, but it never really did. Some plot elements were interesting, but the way the whole storyline played out was not polished and the SOBs didn't really do a whole lot as far as action is concerned. A better book than the previous one, but again this is no where near the quality of the first couple dozen volumes.

ice_cracked 5/10 February 19, 2013

Well this is a very good read and I would recommend this to you all at any time for your enjoyment. Huh and only 5 stars ? Yep simple it is NOT a title that should have been released in this series full stop. (sorry) period. I have thought a bit on why this was released under this series and can come to no answer. Nile Barrabas himself plays a small part but the SOB's are hardly mentioned at all. I am not going to go into a lot of detail here on this title except to say it is a story (quite well done) on a terrorist group using somewhat different tactics and backed by the KGB to undermine British and American security at their highest levels. The characters introduced are quite good especially the leader of the terrorist group and the start of the title is probably worth the read by itself as you haven't read something like this before. Good quality original plot and storyline interesting characters and a quite good finish if you read titles for these reasons then grab a hold of this one you will enjoy it I reckon. But as stated previously should never have been released in this series.