William Vance (1935–2018)

After shady organization tries to impose its will through pirate TV signal Bruno Brazil is called to handle the situation. To achieve the goal he creates a team (Commando Caiman) and goes after the criminals.

While there are elements here that are over-the-top at the time this was expected (and might seem outdated now). Team of ragtags no official likes (not unlike dirty dozen), Bruno Brazil as extremely capable team lead encountering crazy villain in the depth of the jungle.

Although use of TV as a hypnotic media might sound preposterous there are elements here that do have footing in reality - constant bombardment of information or suggestions through commercials come to mind, would not you agree - maybe hypnosis would not work on everyone in populace but very large number is susceptible to publicly spun stories.

So, in short story is again very Ludlum-sque but with elements of reality (it was interesting to see exclusion of one team member because he is not fit enough for task and limits to which some team members are ready to go to and casualties taken during the parachute infiltration - all the things that are not so common in comics).

Art as always is excellent, I am very much fan of William Vance's work both here and in XIII series.

Recommended for spy-fiction fans.
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While enjoying their well deserved off-time Caiman team gets involved into events that look and sound very much like event from [b: Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score|14539948|Richard Stark’s Parker The Score|Darwyn Cooke|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1341795386l/14539948._SX50_.jpg|20182626].

While some of the equipment shown looks little bit too much SF story itself is rather grounded and sounds real.

Once again, good but short read. I am on a lookout for any additional issues I can find :)

Recommended to all fans of spy-fiction.… (altro)