Welcome to the Feast

Phoenix Force #17

by Gar Wilson, Gar Wilson ("Series Creator")

In San Francisco's Chinatown an Oriental crime network called TRIO is battling the international underworld syndicate known as MERGE for control of the West Coast's heroin dollars. While the modern-day cannibals feast on the flesh of innocent people caught in the cross fire of a vicious gang war, Phoenix Force launches a campaign to put the gangsters on a diet of death.

The table is set. Welcome to the feast.

Genres: Action

192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published April 1, 1985

About the author

Phoenix Force is a series of action-adventure novels first published in 1982 by American Gold Eagle publishers. It is a spin-off of the Executioner series created by Don Pendleton.

Phoenix Force is one of two neutralization teams working for Stony Man, a top-secret anti-terrorist organization. As with The Executioner, the Phoenix Force novels have been written by a succession of authors under the pseudonym Gar Wilson. In 1991, Gold Eagle combined Phoenix Force with another Executioner spin-off series, Able Team, and launched the Stony Man book series, which is still being published as of 2005.

Reviews

[Jim Dunlop · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well this is more like it! This PF is a class above the last issue, with well developed bad guys and lots of good hand to bad and gunplay you expect from the boys.

After the coast Guard is attacked by smugglers off the California coast, Phoenix Force comes to San Fran to investigate. MERGE is back at it again, but this time even they are under attack from a new syndicate comprised of Chinese and Japanese gangsters - TRIO !

Fieldhouse sure loves his acronyms, but where MERGE didn’t feel like much of a threat, TRIO definitely brings some serious chops to the fight - ninja style!

Yes this book is smack dab in the middle of the ninja craze of the mid 1980s, as even PF is joined by a ninja ally to battle the opposing forces of this drug war.

Overall this book was much more interesting, with no glaring mistakes in the writing, even if the had to hand and ninja stuff was a bit ‘heavy handed’ (no pun intended).

[Wayne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another ripping action packed Phoenix Force by William Fieldhouse. The Feast entails that an old enemy, MERGE, a group made up of Colombian drug cartels and Mexican and Italian mafias not only have The Force on it's back, now TRIO, a gang of Asian yakuza and Chinese tongs want to take over the drug action in the USA. Needless to say, the action flows thick and fast here. The only draw back was to much back story. Other than that, this was one hell of a book.

[Josh Hitch · Rating 4 out of 5]

Say it's more of a 3.5 but its a solid read. It's typical of the series as in its basically just one long battle scene. Though I liked what plot there is which is basically the force is caught between two large multinational crime organizations fighting over territory. This happens while they try to stop the heroin trade in San Francisco.

Recommended for fans of the series or men's adventure genre. It has everything you want in the genre even a ninja joins up with the force to help out.

[Holly Stone · Rating 3 out of 5]

the 5 men of Phoenix Force find themselves caught between 2 warring factions MERGE who they've battled before and a new many tentacled syndicate calling themselves TRIO but whatever the flavor the Phoenix pros are ready to dish up a hard and fast death meal Welcome to the Feast

[Joel · Rating 4 out of 5]

These books are fun to read. Lots of action, some comedy and interesting facts interspersed throughout. Most of the action here was martial arts, close quarters combat.

[Sierra Rose · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good read that brings TRIO & MERGE both to face the team in San Francisco and also introduces a new character that will often help the team out, John Trent.

[Little Timmy · Rating 3 out of 5]

A spin off series from his Executioner books. This series follows several secondary characters that band together. Recommended