Choke Point

Don Pendleton

Harlequin, Dec 1, 2012 - Fiction - 320 pages

STONY MAN
The Stony Man team of special operators stands ready to go into ultra-covert action whenever the President needs a specific brand of below-the-radar expertise. If the crisis is real and immediate, cybernetics experts with state-of-the-art technology kick into gear from the war room of a secret facility known only to the Oval Office, while the commando soldiers of Able Team and Phoenix Force lead the ground assault. Consummate warriors dedicated to protecting the innocent, Stony Man draws a hard line against enemies of the free world.

PERMANENT SHUTDOWN
A U.S. senator’s murder and the kidnapping of several children of high-profile government officials leave the President no choice but to call in Stony Man to investigate. But the kidnappings are only the tip of the iceberg. The ransom money and income from a human trafficking ring are being used to fund terrorist activities overseas. It’s a race against time as Able Team has to track down the kidnappers in Florida before anything happens to the children, while Phoenix Force hunts the ringleader in Morocco. Their goal: neutralize the operation. No matter what.

Contents

• 56 STATE OF AGGRESSION: 26
• 57 SKY KILLERS: 57
• 58 CONDITION HOSTILE: 58
• 59 PRELUDE TO: 59
• 60 DEFENSIVE ACTION: 60
• 61 ROGUE STATE: 61
• 62 DEEP RAMPAGE: 62
• 63 FREEDOM WATCH: 63
• 64 ROOTS OF TERROR: 64
• 65 THE THIRD PROTOCOL: 65
• 66 AXIS OF CONFLICT: 66
• 67 ECHOES OF: 67
• 68 OUTBREAK: 68
• 69 DAY OF DECISION: 69
• 70 RAMROD INTERCEPT: 70
• 71 TERMS OF CONTROL: 71
• 72 ROLLING THUNDER: 72
• 73 COLD OBJECTIVE: 73
• 74 THE CHAMELEON FACTOR: 74
• 75 SILENT ARSENAL: 75
• 76 GATHERING STORM: 76
• 77 FULL BLAST: 77
• 78 MAELSTROM: 78
• 79 PROMISE TO DEFEND: 79
• 80 DOOMSDAY CONQUEST: 80
• 81 SKY HAMMER: 81
• 82 VANISHING POINT: 82
• 83 DOOM PROPHECY: 83
• 84 SENSOR SWEEP: 84
• 85 HELL DAWN: 85
• 86 OCEANS OF FIRE: 86
• 87 EXTREME ARSENAL: 87
• 88 STARFIRE: 88
• 89 NEUTRON FORCE: 89
• 90 RED FROST: 90
• 91 CHINA CRISIS: 91
• 92 CAPITAL OFFENSIVE: 92
• 93 DEADLY PAYLOAD: 93
• 94 ACT OF: 94
• 95 CRITICAL EFFECT: 95
• 96 DARK STAR: 96
• 97 SPLINTERED: 97
• 98 PRIMARY DIRECTIVE: 98
• 99 SHADOW: 99
• 100 HOSTILE DAWN: 100
• 101 DRAWPOINT: 101
• 102 TERROR DESCENDING: 102
• 103 SKY SENTINELS: 103
• 104 EXTINCTION CRISIS: 104
• 105 SEASON OF HARM: 105
• 106 HIGH ASSAULT: 106
• 107 WAR TIDES: 107
• 108 EXTREME INSTINCT: 108
• 109 TARGET ACQUISITION: 109
• 110 UNIFIED ACTION: 110
• 111 CRITICAL INTELLIGENCE: 111
• 112 ORBITAL VELOCITY: 112
• 113 POWER GRAB: 113
• 114 UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE: 114
• 115 EXTERMINATION: 115
• 116 TERMINAL GUIDANCE: 116
• 117 ARMED RESISTANCE: 117
• 118 TERROR TRAIL: 118
• 119 CLOSE QUARTERS: 119
• 120 INCENDIARY DISPATCH: 120
• 121 SEISMIC SURGE: 121

About the author

Don Pendleton was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on December 12, 1927. During World War II, on December 7, 1942, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy, serving as a Radioman First Class until November of 1947. He served in all the war theaters, receiving various medals. He received his GED while in the Navy. In 1952, in the midst of the Korean conflict, he returned to active service for two years. He was employed as a telegrapher for Southern Pacific Railroad until 1957. For the next four years, he worked for the CAA/FAA as an air traffic control specialist. In 1961, his career turned toward aerospace engineering where he served in management positions during Martin-Marietta's Titan ICBM programs, as an engineering administrator in NASA's Apollo Moonshot program, and with the United States Air Force C-5 Galaxy program. He began writing in 1957 and his first short story was published that year, followed by a first novel in 1961. He became a full-time author in 1967. After producing a number of short stories, westerns, science fiction and mystery novels, in 1969, he launched the Executioner series. The first Executioner novel, War Against the Mafia, was followed by an additional 37 books during the ensuing 12 years. In 1980, he franchised his Executioner characters to Harlequin's Worldwide Library of Toronto, Gold Eagle Imprint. Until his death, he served as Consulting Editor on the Gold Eagle Program, although was not directly responsible for any of the Mack Bolan novels written since 1981. Their team of writers have produced close to 400 novels based on Pendleton's original works and use his names as a house pseudonym. He also published six books about a psychic detective named Ashton Ford and six books about a private detective named Joe Copp. In 1990, he turned to nonfiction with the publication of To Dance with Angels, written with his wife, Linda Pendleton. His nonfiction books include three manuscripts published posthumously as ebooks: A Search for Meaning from the Surface of a Small Planet, The Metaphysics of the Novel: The Inner Workings of a Novel and a Novelist, and Whispers from the Soul: The Divine Dance of Consciousness. A Search for Meaning from the Surface of a Small Planet won the Independent Ebooks Award for the Best of Nonfiction in 2002. In 1992, he received the Lifetime Achievement Gem Award presented by Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. He died of a heart attack on October 23, 1995 at the age of 67.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Choke Point; Volume 122 of Stony man
• Author: Don Pendleton
• Publisher: Harlequin, 2012
• ISBN: 1459249798, 9781459249790
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Thrillers / Espionage; Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense