The Phoenix

The author succeeds in giving the reader a thrill ride as Casey Romaine aka Casca faces off with a sadistic Vietcong leader who uses a secret terror network. What Casca must do is take out the commander of this conspiracy to assassinate South Vietnam leaders and American commanders using trusted civ......more

I was going to go with two stars due to the commonality between this book and several others, I liked the ending, as gruesome as it was, so I bumped it back up to three stars. I wish that after the success of the first book, the author had done more deliberate planning and mapping out future books an......more

"Casca 14: The Phoenix" by Barry Sadler is a gripping and action-packed novel that takes readers on a thrilling journey through the jungles of Vietnam during the height of the war. This book is part of the larger Casca series, which follows the adventures of an immortal soldier cursed to live foreve......more

One of the best Casca books I've read so far. I intend to read more. This one has Casca in Vietnam. He's hunting a Viet Cong captain who is running an assassins group killing important American and South Vietnamese military and political figures. The captain, named Ho, thinks he's killed Casca early......more

A pretty good read but I dont really understand the whole reason Casca was so obsessed with his target as surely he should have become used to mans inhumanity to man by now?......more