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Mack Bolan the Executioner #332
Slaughter House
Slaughter House by Don Pendleton released on Jul 11, 2006 is available now for purchase.
224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 11, 2006
About the author
Don Pendleton
1,537 books196 followersDon Pendleton was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, December 12, 1927 and died October 23, 1995 in Arizona.
He wrote mystery, action/adventure, science-fiction, crime fiction, suspense, short stories, nonfiction, and was a comic scriptwriter, poet, screenwriter, essayist, and metaphysical scholar. He published more than 125 books in his long career, and his books have been published in more than 25 foreign languages with close to two hundred million copies in print throughout the world.
After producing a number of science-fiction and mystery novels, Don launched in 1969 the phenomenal Mack Bolan: The Executioner, which quickly emerged as the original, definitive Action/Adventure series. His successful paperback books inspired a new particularly American literary genre during the early 1970's, and Don became known as "the father of action/adventure."
"Although The Executioner Series is far and away my most significant contribution to world literature, I still do not perceive myself as 'belonging' to any particular literary niche. I am simply a storyteller, an entertainer who hopes to enthrall with visions of the reader's own incipient greatness."
Don Pendleton's original Executioner Series are now in ebooks, published by Open Road Media. 37 of the original novels.
Wikipedia: Don Pendleton
He wrote mystery, action/adventure, science-fiction, crime fiction, suspense, short stories, nonfiction, and was a comic scriptwriter, poet, screenwriter, essayist, and metaphysical scholar. He published more than 125 books in his long career, and his books have been published in more than 25 foreign languages with close to two hundred million copies in print throughout the world.
After producing a number of science-fiction and mystery novels, Don launched in 1969 the phenomenal Mack Bolan: The Executioner, which quickly emerged as the original, definitive Action/Adventure series. His successful paperback books inspired a new particularly American literary genre during the early 1970's, and Don became known as "the father of action/adventure."
"Although The Executioner Series is far and away my most significant contribution to world literature, I still do not perceive myself as 'belonging' to any particular literary niche. I am simply a storyteller, an entertainer who hopes to enthrall with visions of the reader's own incipient greatness."
Don Pendleton's original Executioner Series are now in ebooks, published by Open Road Media. 37 of the original novels.
Wikipedia: Don Pendleton
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March 15, 2015
So far this one was the most interesting (and also the best) Executioner novel I've read. In fact, I'd almost give it four stars if it weren't for the sheer sloppiness of it. This seems like a first draft, with run-on sentences (some that go on for seven or eight lines!), missing words, and a few misspellings here and there, especially in the latter half of the book. It's kind of disappointing. I mean, I know they only had a month to work on this but I've read more organized and better-proofread work from classroom assignments.
The story itself is nothing really special. Mack Bolan is chasing a triad after a botched deal involving a nuclear armament through Hong Kong and a good portion of China. Along the way, his mission coincides with that of a team of mercs hired to save an American girl from the prostitution business of a triad boss--who also happens to be the boss of the triad Bolan's chasing.
It's got some nice action scenes that are generally well-written (excluding the above-mentioned mistakes that became more prominent by the novel's end). The characters are cardboard cutouts and Bolan is your stereotypical incorruptible good guy with a thirst for justice and whatnot, but for a story like this, that doesn't really matter because the novel throws some good action your way before you can get bored of the characters. The plot at least seemed like it was trying, which is good, since it's one of the reasons why it's better than the other two novels I'd read as of this writing (Throwdown and Code of Honor).
Recommended for any action fans looking for a decent read on a quiet afternoon. For anyone else... meh.
The story itself is nothing really special. Mack Bolan is chasing a triad after a botched deal involving a nuclear armament through Hong Kong and a good portion of China. Along the way, his mission coincides with that of a team of mercs hired to save an American girl from the prostitution business of a triad boss--who also happens to be the boss of the triad Bolan's chasing.
It's got some nice action scenes that are generally well-written (excluding the above-mentioned mistakes that became more prominent by the novel's end). The characters are cardboard cutouts and Bolan is your stereotypical incorruptible good guy with a thirst for justice and whatnot, but for a story like this, that doesn't really matter because the novel throws some good action your way before you can get bored of the characters. The plot at least seemed like it was trying, which is good, since it's one of the reasons why it's better than the other two novels I'd read as of this writing (Throwdown and Code of Honor).
Recommended for any action fans looking for a decent read on a quiet afternoon. For anyone else... meh.
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