Escalation Tactic

JUSTICE PROTOCOL

Terror hijacks an international conference on weapons of mass destruction in Stockholm when East Germans kidnap high-ranking government officials, including the U.S. vice president. And the ransom demand-a portion of each country's GNP-is enough to cripple the world's economies. Failure to comply ensures the hostages will be tortured and killed on a live video feed. Mack Bolan has to seize a narrow window of opportunity before the crisis spins out of control. But the tactically sophisticated terrorists stay one step ahead of him, moving the hostages to safe houses around the globe. In a cross-country blitz, he's obliged to confront friendly multinational forces converging in a desperate retaliation. Bolan negotiates the only terms the terrorists understand: certain death.

A deadly auction is about to take place as two scientists put their prototype for harnessing cold fusion on the market. Scheduled to be sold to the highest bidder in a secret Syrian location, the knowledge of how to harness cold fusion would give great and dangerous nuclear power to its owner. As Mack Bolan races to intercept the exchange, he discovers he's not the only one intent on crashing the bidding party. A group of Russians have hijacked the proceedings and disappeared with the scientists.

The Russians expect an even higher price for the brains behind the scientific breakthrough, and Bolan must track the ex-KGB kidnappers across the desert from Syria to Libya and stop them from trading their human merchandise. Access to technology is low, so the Executioner will have to resort to WWII desert warfare strategies to put these Russians out of business-permanently.

MIAMI HEAT

Dozens are killed in a bloody attack outside a West Palm Beach courthouse when two Haitian gang leaders break out their brethren as a show of power over the city. Mack Bolan is sent in to neutralize the situation but finds that things have escalated. The two bosses have ambitions to rule the Miami underworld and have teamed with an arms-dealing motorcycle club to make it happen-promising pain to anyone who gets in their way.

While the police department and local residents are too frightened to fight back, Bolan is not-especially after finding the battered remains of the gang's innocent victims. The leaders of this crime ring may have risen from the streets, but the Executioner is prepared to send them down to hell.

DEAD MEN DON'T TALK

All hell breaks loose after a Balkan warlord escapes from prison days before his trial. But the right-wing group behind the breakout doesn't want him alive. They want him as their dead martyr-and they aren't the only ones. Sent to retrieve the man before they can kill him, and keep him safe until his court date, Mack Bolan has a big job on his hands.

The war criminal could cause trouble for the world leaders who funded his cause, and they will do anything to keep their skeletons in the closet. With enemies coming at him from all sides, Bolan knows he can trust no one, as his opponents possess intel only someone inside the system could have. Whatever the obstacles, the Executioner will stop at nothing to guarantee justice is served.

Crisis erupts in the South China Sea when Triad pirates seize two of China's new DF-21 "carrier-killer" missiles. In desperation, the Oval Office turns to Stony Man Farm for a rapid, strategic response to halt the immediate threat to U.S. warships. Mack Bolan's mission in Jakarta becomes twofold: neutralize the pirate base and stop the sale of the missiles to the highest bidders.

The threat escalates when the U.S. rejects the pirates' demands and the Triad proves only too willing to give the U.S. a demonstration of the missiles' lethal power. As violence spreads throughout Indonesia, Bolan and a rescued Chinese spy push on through mounting assaults to the final showdown deep within the terrorists' jungle stronghold. But can they defeat a determined enemy that's got everything to lose?

STONY MAN
When the President has nowhere else to turn, Stony Man is there to get the job done. An elite group of black ops and cyber tech professionals, the team works under the cloak of stealth to strike before innocent lives are lost. Bound by honor and duty, they are willing to pay the ultimate price to uphold freedom.

NUCLEAR INTENT
Three agents end up dead and one of Stony Man Farm's own is injured after receiving covert information, sending up a red flag in the President's office. Someone is planning to ignite hostilities between Israel and Iran by unleashing a nuclear weapon that would force the U.S. to help their ally and go into battle. With the lives of millions at stake, Stony Man's Phoenix Force flies to Yemen to track the bomb before it can launch, while Able Team hunts down the masterminds behind the deadly plot…in the United States.

When two U.S. agents are executed and a third goes missing, the government can no longer deny that one of its units has been compromised. A mole is passing on sensitive information to an international human trafficking ring, putting the agency's people in jeopardy. To plug the leak and rescue the missing operative, Mack Bolan will have to go in under the radar and take on the crime syndicate solo.

But Mack's not the only one looking for the missing man. The syndicate has hired a professional "cleaner" to finish the job. Trained to kill and armed with unlimited resources, Bolan's opponent is definitely a tough-and debatably a worthy-adversary. But the Executioner has his own plans for cleaning up the organization, and he's going to start at the top of the chain.

STONY MAN

Only a few know of their existence, but the lives of millions lie in their hands. An elite, covert counterterrorist team acting under the President, Stony Man comprises the best cyber technicians and military warriors in the world. Their goal is to fight terror anywhere and anytime-even if it means sacrificing their lives in the process.

PERILOUS SKIES

When billion-dollar stealth technology drops to bargain prices, governments and drug cartels around the world want in on the action. Suddenly, hotspots are cropping up everywhere, and even the United States can feel its military security slipping away. No country is safe unless Stony Man's command can find a way to destroy the technology. Determined to stop war from erupting, Able Team is sent to find the brain behind the stealth tech, while Phoenix Force infiltrates China to destroy the manufacturing plant. But time is of the essence. And the clock is already counting down.

NUCLEAR LOCKDOWN

When a plot to unleash weapons of mass destruction on U.S. soil is discovered in a coded message, all clues lead to the country's most notorious prison. With time running out, Mack Bolan goes in undercover as an inmate to find out who's behind the attack and stop it from happening.

Surrounded by corrupt guards and convicted killers who want him dead, Bolan can't trust anybody-and one wrong move could be lethal. Weaponless and cut off from the outside world, he's aware that the only tools he has to track down the nuclear devices hidden in the prison walls are psychological warfare and hand-to-hand combat. This high-security facility may have been designed to keep the deadliest criminals in check, but nothing can keep the Executioner down.

Death floods the streets of Florida as rival gangs kill for blood rights to the distribution of a new synthetic drug, Crocodil. The Russian substitute for heroin, it's the ultimate prize in the drug turf wars-a cheap high that brings even cheaper death. As rival Mexican and Salvadoran cartels shoot it out for kingpin status, Mack Bolan joins the war. Unleashing incendiary hell on gang territory in Miami, he blasts his way through a pipeline that leads south to Guatemala, where a corrupt Swiss pharmaceutical company has set up manufacturing. Allied with a couple of locals equally dedicated to stopping this lethal fix before it hits Main Street, U.S.A., Bolan faces an army of hard-core mercenaries and miles of cartel blood lust. Outgunned but never outmaneuvered, the Executioner doesn't soft-sell his brand of payback to these merchants of human misery. Bolan goes in hard and without mercy.