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in which decisions were made, the repercussions of
which rippled across the globe as sure and unstop-
pable as ocean waves. Indeed, it was a room in which
history was written, a place where the fate of the
world often hung in the balance.
It was Stony Man Farm's War Room.
Hal Brognola, director of the Sensitive Operations
Group, heard the door swing shut behind him as he
walked to his chair at the head of the conference
table. Seated to his right was Phoenix Force leader
David McCarter. Next to the Briton were the other
members of Phoenix Force: Rafael Encizo, a square-
faced Cuban exile; Gary Manning, a Canadian ex-
plosives expert; Calvin James, the team's medic and
edged-weapon aficionado; and Gulf War veteran
Thomas Jackson Hawkins, the youngest, and newest,
member of the counterterrorist squad.
The men of Phoenix Force had just returned from




a mission in South America and still wore the dirty,
sweat-stained camouflage fatigues in which they had
arrived. They were workers to a man, and along with
the trio of warriors who made up Able Team--Stony
Man's domestic counterterrorist unit, Brognola had
eight of the nine best operatives in the world. Hand-
picked from units such as the U.S. Army Special
Forces, Delta Force and the Navy SEAL, they were,
quite simply, the best of the best.
The big Fed took his seat and glanced to the far
end of the table. A tall man, lean yet muscular, with
dark hair and even darker features, sat staring his
way. The man wore gray slacks and a short-sleeved
black polo shirt that stretched tight over his chest and
biceps. Here and there along the forearms that rested
on the table in front of him, Brognola could see dark
round spots--bullet scars--the marks of battles past.
The man's name was Mack Bolan, and he was also
known as the Executioner. A lone wolf by nature but
a leader of men by demand, Bolan was the ninth in
the nine best warriors in the world. And the best.
Faintly, from the other side of the door, Brognola
heard the sound of someone tapping the access code
into the digital lock. A moment later a buzzer
sounded, and the door swung open.
Able Team leader Carl Lyons, known to the
Farm's personnel as "Ironman," led the way into the
room. Following him was Rosario "Politician"