Black Ops · #3

Deep Terror

by Michael Kasner · August 1996

5.0 / 10 average from 1 rated reviews

Americans are increasingly in danger, at home and abroad. Created by an elite cadre of red tape-cutting government officials, the Black Ops commandos exist to avenge such acts of terror. Now their priority is to rescue a hostaged group of archaeological students, including the niece of the Secretary of State. Blood has already been spilled, and the students face an ever-receding future that will be terminated by torture and death. What the terrorists responsible don't know yet is that the Black Ops have emerged from deep cover, ready to beat them at their own game.

Reviews (1)

ice_cracked 5/10 July 2, 2012

Okay the last title of the mini series and here we have a group of students on a tour through Greece visiting the ancient sites where their tour bus is taken over by Macedonian/Kurd terrorists they are kidnapped and held for ransom. Included amongst the hostages is the niece of the US Secretary of State and her fiancée an Israeli Mossad agent. The Black Ops team is sent to Greece as they MAY be enabled to enact a rescue which is good for the members as they get the chance to laze around catch the sights and enjoy some good restaurants and sample some of the local booze whilst waiting to be enabled? The hostages are being held in an old monastery and the Team is eventually authorised to do the rescue which is successful with the exception of the leader of the terrorists and the Secretary of State's niece who escape prior and we are at Page 131 of a 348 page title folks! What follows is more of the same from the two previous titles lots and lots of filler this title could have been barrelled over inside 200 pages but no as like before the reader has to plow through so much bloody crap it becomes not only very hard to read but boring which results in lots of putting the title down and an unbelievable amount of time to actually finish it. Prior to writing this I thought to myself ok after the first three Phoenix Force titles how may of the five team members characters names did you know and I immediately thought all five. Upon asking myself the same question after finishing this title I realised apart from the leader and the Oriental chick McLeod was the only other name that came to memory? Let me be very plain here the ONLY REASON I purchased this mini series was because Michael Kasner was the author RIP. In all honesty I cannot recommend any of these titles for your reading pleasure unfortunately which saddens me as the man was an extremely good author certainly right up there with anyone else writing for the Bolan verse series when he was. Executioner #198 Shoot Down Stonyman #13 Warhead Stonyman #16 Deep Alert Stonyman #29 Eye of the Ruby Stonyman #34 Reprisal Stonyman #39 Breach of Trust Stonyman #42,43,45 etc. etc. etc. Are HIGHLY recommended titles released by the author which you could certainly do yourself a favour and read.