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Posted: 10/4/2012 4:57:47 AM EDT
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I read a lot of Mac Bolan. I tried to pass my collection off to my young boys but I think for them video games like Call of Duty and SOCOM have replaced the level of fantasy the Mac Bolan books provided for me in the early 80's.
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Posted: 10/4/2012 4:59:18 AM EDT
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Didn't he like using a .458 Win Mag as a sniper rifle? I think he started with a .444 Marlin in "War on the Mafia." The first 30 or so books were the best. "Turkeys...."    
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Posted: 10/4/2012 5:08:48 AM EDT
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me too ... i still jave some
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Posted: 10/4/2012 5:10:11 AM EDT
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I loved reading both Mack Bolan and Matt Helm books when I was a kid. Many happy hours reading about the bad guys sent to their just deserts. |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 5:18:50 AM EDT
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I read a shitton of Mac Bolan and Matt Helm books. Even as a private in the Army. They were fun. I always remember the Beretta 93R with the 3 round burst. Matt Helm carried a Browning Hi Power and sometimes a .38 snub in an ankle rig. I miss those books but quit buying them as I was going broke trying to keep up. Wrong about Matt "Eric" Helm. He always had a 5 shot S&W and did not use a holster until the later books ..... The early ones were by far the best ... "And then I took the gun out and shot him five times in the chest". A classic MH line |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 5:27:55 AM EDT
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Yup
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Posted: 10/4/2012 5:30:01 AM EDT
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Mac Bolan and Phoenix force.
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Posted: 10/4/2012 5:31:20 AM EDT
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That series has a new writer I would hope so. It hasn't had nearly enough.
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Posted: 10/4/2012 5:33:35 AM EDT
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As an 80's teen, I had a bookshelf full of Mac, Able Team, Phoenix Force...
Awful writing. I loved it. |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 5:33:42 AM EDT
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I did
Love the 93r |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 6:29:22 AM EDT
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I read some of the Deathlands books. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/Pilgrimage_to_Hell.jpg That series has a new writer, it is actually getting worth reading again. They are even starting to use real tactics like cover fire and flanking. Ryan's P-226 still has a safety on it though. But it lost its sound suppressor though and he now has a Scout rifle.
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Posted: 10/4/2012 6:30:46 AM EDT
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I was an Able Team fan myself. I had a friend who read the Bolan and Phoenix Force books and we would swap the new books back and forth. I discovered the Guardians and was hooked. Read them all, hated the very last book. Sometimes ghost writers are better than the original, most times not.
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Posted: 10/4/2012 6:44:42 AM EDT
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Mack Bolan, Able Team, Phoenix Force, SOB's, Casca, Death Merchant, The Black Berets
Read them all as a teenager and as a Marine. Stopped reading them for a while in the Corps and then picked one up a few years later (Mack Bolan circa 1994 when he is on a plane and foils a hijacking attempt before it happens and one of the hijackers was using a 357 Desert Eagle..."'Not my usual caliber, but it will do', as he tucks it into his waistband") and it was so god-awful I never looked at another one since. But yeah, they were fun. |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 6:49:37 AM EDT
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Quoted:  Who was the guy who carried the dual Detonics .45s? That wasn't Mack Bolan was it? John Thomas Rourke, "The Survivalist." (Jerry Ahern wrote the books.) ETA: Too slow. I also read: Able Team, Phoenix Force, S.O.B.'s, The Guardians, Black Berets, Track, Traveller, The Survivalist, The Destroyer, Deathlands, Detroit P.D., Matt Helm, Precinct:Siberia, and probably a bunch of others that I don't recall. runcible in his early teens was Walter Mitty to the max. |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 6:55:21 AM EDT
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I did and still do
 Mack Bolan, Stony Man, and the Executioner series.
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Posted: 10/4/2012 6:59:38 AM EDT
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Still have them in a box somewhere. Would like to find them on a disk.  |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 7:00:57 AM EDT
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Still have them in a box somewhere. Would like to find them on a disk. they are available as audio books I hear |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 7:02:17 AM EDT
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Fuck yes! And all the Bannerman related novels.
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Posted: 10/4/2012 8:14:16 AM EDT
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Yeah, I was a big "Able Team" fan. Atchisson Assault 12!
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Posted: 10/4/2012 8:21:42 AM EDT
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I used to ride my bike ~ 5 miles to town to buy them I'm such a looser I read them |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 8:39:40 AM EDT
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Okay, here's one: Off the top of your head...
1. Who were the 3 members of Able Team? 2. Who were the original 5 members of Phoenix Force, and where did they come from?
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Posted: 10/4/2012 9:10:54 AM EDT
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Okay, here's one: Off the top of your head... 1. Who were the 3 members of Able Team? 2. Who were the original 5 members of Phoenix Force, and where did they come from? Gadgets Schwartz, Carl Lyons, and the other guy. Dammit...
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Posted: 10/4/2012 9:12:36 AM EDT
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They were inspirational for some of my english story assignments...much to my teachers (various) chagrin.
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Posted: 10/4/2012 9:18:46 AM EDT
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Add another former Mac Bolan child of the 80s. I also remember trying for years to find this complete series:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51p%2BNfRW-jL._SL500_AA300_.jpg |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 9:21:39 AM EDT
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Quoted: Read most of the Execuitioners. Still love the Matt Helm. Used to trade the Able Team books with my friends in Jr. High!Quoted: I loved reading both Mack Bolan and Matt Helm books when I was a kid. Many happy hours reading about the bad guys sent to their just deserts. /TCP |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 9:47:14 AM EDT
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Okay, here's one: Off the top of your head... 1. Who were the 3 members of Able Team? 2. Who were the original 5 members of Phoenix Force, and where did they come from? Gadgets Schwartz, Carl Lyons, and the other guy. Dammit... Rosario "Politiciian" Blancanales. |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 9:57:15 AM EDT
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I loved those books.
I read most of them when I was in the Navy and stuck in the barracks/boat. When he got the automag it really took off for me. ETA: The Blade books were very entertaining as well. |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 9:59:36 AM EDT
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Okay, here's one: Off the top of your head... 1. Who were the 3 members of Able Team? 2. Who were the original 5 members of Phoenix Force, and where did they come from? Gadgets Schwartz, Carl Lyons, and the other guy. Dammit... Rosario "Politiciian" Blancanales. 
And, just to prove what a loser geek I am, "Gadgets" name was Herman, and Carl Lyons nickname/Call-sign was "Ironman." Wow... what you learn when you don't waste a lot of time dating. |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 10:03:06 AM EDT
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Okay, here's one: Off the top of your head... 1. Who were the 3 members of Able Team? 2. Who were the original 5 members of Phoenix Force, and where did they come from? Gadgets Schwartz, Carl Lyons, and the other guy. Dammit... Rosario "Politiciian" Blancanales. http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z316/runcible22/kelso.jpg And, just to prove what a loser geek I am, "Gadgets" name was Herman, and Carl Lyons nickname/Call-sign was "Ironman." Wow... what you learn when you don't waste a lot of time dating. I think those books probably kept the girls away if they saw you reading them. That's my excuse anyway... 
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Posted: 10/4/2012 10:17:03 AM EDT
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Guilty as charged.
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Posted: 10/4/2012 10:20:21 AM EDT
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I ended up being more of a The Guardians fan, though. http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6078/6051077973_592216b3c0.jpg Bingo! I just finished the first book and have started Trial By Fire...... For maybe the 40th time.
Did you know that Jove came out with a sister series called "The Marauders", about a team the Guardians sent to Europe to sow death and destruction in Chairman Maximov's front yard? I just found out last week. 
And yeah, I'd love one of these, too! 
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Posted: 10/4/2012 10:23:07 AM EDT
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who would win in a fight - able team vs phoenix force mack bolan vs chuck norris I always like Able Team & Phoenix force more than Mack. Our library had a collection of the books so I read them all. Never bought them. |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 10:27:16 AM EDT
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I read some of the Deathlands books. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/Pilgrimage_to_Hell.jpg That series has a new writer, it is actually getting worth reading again. They are even starting to use real tactics like cover fire and flanking. Ryan's P-226 still has a safety on it though. But it lost its sound suppressor though and he now has a Scout rifle. They mention the Sig's built in supressor every once and a while in the series. Mainly that the wipes are shot out and Ryan is always on the look out for more of them, but they are rare as hell. Ryan did get a suppressor (and one or two spares) for his new rifle when he found it. Given how much he used the SSG-70 the barrel would have been shot to hell. I think that alone would be a good reason for the Scout. |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 10:28:49 AM EDT
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I did. I was in a book club that sent me Mac Bolan, Phoenix Force, etc.
The series I liked best from the club was Vietnam Ground Zero by Eric Helm. I still have those. Sold the rest. |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 10:35:36 AM EDT
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We have a nice collection up here in Mammoth. The wife got a crate full of paperbacks from a fellow teacher when she got the condo 40 years ago....."yer gonna need some books to read".
Nick Carter, Milo March too. |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 10:42:30 AM EDT
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I ended up being more of a The Guardians fan, though. http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6078/6051077973_592216b3c0.jpg Bingo! I just finished the first book and have started Trial By Fire...... For maybe the 40th time.
Did you know that Jove came out with a sister series called "The Marauders", about a team the Guardians sent to Europe to sow death and destruction in Chairman Maximov's front yard? I just found out last week.
And yeah, I'd love one of these, too!
http://21stcenturyasianarmsrace.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/us-m1117-armored-security-vehicle.jpg http://21stcenturyasianarmsrace.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/us-m1117-armored-security-vehicle-02.jpg Mobile One! IIRC, that model is actually called The Guardian.
Don't bother with the Marauders, they were written by a different author and are absolute crap. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 10:43:06 AM EDT
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Read them? I wanted to be Mack Bolan.
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Posted: 10/4/2012 10:46:24 AM EDT
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Phoenix Force
Yakov Katzenenlenbogen Keio Ohara Carl Manning EDIT : Gary Manning David Smith ? ( SAS dude ) EDIT : McCarter... damn Cuban dude... cant remember the name. EDIT : Rafael Encizo also the SOBs, Nile Barrabas, bad ass dude with white hair. Loved those books. EDIT, getting old sucks. cant remember anything. |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 10:50:06 AM EDT
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Okay, here's one: Off the top of your head... 2. Who were the original 5 members of Phoenix Force, and where did they come from? Yakov Katzenelenbogen, Mossad Gary Manning, some milkbagging outfit David McCarter, SAS Some Japanese guy who got killed off after the first dozen books or so and was replaced by Calvin James and his "Jackass" shoulder rig Some Cuban guy whose name I can never remember |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 11:25:35 AM EDT
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How about The Eternal Mercenary series by Barry Sadler?
I was actually more of a Horseclans geek. |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 11:39:51 AM EDT
[#41]
Absolutely.
Last month found one in the bathroom at work and tried to skim the first few pages....couldn't do it!.
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Posted: 10/4/2012 11:46:59 AM EDT
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I gave away about 100 of them in the EE about 6 months ago...
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Posted: 10/4/2012 11:49:24 AM EDT
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I did in my early teens. I think you can still buy them.
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Posted: 10/4/2012 11:51:10 AM EDT
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I used to ride my bike ~ 5 miles to town to buy them I'm such a looser Junior High Study Hall.... kept me busy, read nearly all of them. Stopped in the early 90's And Able Team, Phoenix Force... |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 11:51:26 AM EDT
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I did in my early teens. I think you can still buy them. I need to pick up several old paperbacks just to get the taste back in my mouth. I don't know what happened to all of mine, but the only Phoenix Force book I still have is the one where they were stranded in Russia somewhere in a Potemkin village and had to fight their way out. |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 11:58:42 AM EDT
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How about The Eternal Mercenary series by Barry Sadler? I was actually more of a Horseclans geek. I mostly read Casca the Eternal Mercinary just one or two Mack Bolan's |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 12:16:43 PM EDT
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Who was the guy who carried the dual Detonics .45s? That wasn't Mack Bolan was it? IIRC, The Death Merchant (Richard Camellion) liked to dual wield a matched set of pistols...Berretta 93's AMT Hardballers etc. Jerry Ahern's The Survivalist featured a set of Detonics Combat Masters |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 12:18:29 PM EDT
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Didn't he like using a .458 Win Mag as a sniper rifle? During the "Mafia War" era he used, and I shit you not, a 444 Marlin... |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 12:40:27 PM EDT
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I got the set of steak knives for ordering them!
I still use them... |
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Posted: 10/4/2012 12:52:35 PM EDT
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At the local lumber yard there was a guy that was "security". By that I mean he checked the tags against what was in your truck. He had a "guard shack" that he sat in. It had a microwave, a small TV and the largest collection of Mack Boland and every other mercenary type paperbacks. There must have been hundreds and I was shocked to learn, he read them all. Shocked that he could read!
To be honest, I have a couple of them. I tried to reread one once. It was painful. |
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