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Stony Man #50
Judgment in Blood
Stealth Approach
The death of a U.S. senator leads Stony Man into a threat of cataclysmic proportions. A plot financed by the nation's largest defense conglomerate, using United Nations humanitarian efforts as a front, is set to unleash apocalyptic fury on the world's religious capitals. The mastermind, a close presidential friend and a major world player, is untouchable, his twisted vision unstoppable. Undaunted, Stony Man relies on the oldest defense strategy in history: determined fighting men willing to do or die.
The death of a U.S. senator leads Stony Man into a threat of cataclysmic proportions. A plot financed by the nation's largest defense conglomerate, using United Nations humanitarian efforts as a front, is set to unleash apocalyptic fury on the world's religious capitals. The mastermind, a close presidential friend and a major world player, is untouchable, his twisted vision unstoppable. Undaunted, Stony Man relies on the oldest defense strategy in history: determined fighting men willing to do or die.
352 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 1, 2000
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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February 13, 2025
Somebody left this in my Little Free Library, and curiosity got the better of me.
There was very little about this book, apart from detailed descriptions of military hardware and tactical operations, that struck me as compelling. The villain's evil plan is a flatly bad plan. There's no element of mystery, as each piece gets thoroughly explained mere pages before the good guys figure it out. The good guys themselves are very difficult to differentiate, and are seemingly divided between puerile wise-asses and grumps who say "dammit, you know what I mean" a lot. The prose alternates between ice cold cliches and ill-advised attempts to warm those cliches over.
Fundamentally, the problem is that this is less a book than it is a factory-produced canister of cynicism, arguing the case that the only hope (and it is a slim hope) for world peace lies in granting "dedicated fighting men" all of the technological and logistical support that they could ever want, along with a license to kill, total operational secrecy, and the freedom to choose their own missions independent of any lawful authority. If that sounds like blah-blah-blah to you, you might give it more stars. I found it hard to look past the absolute contempt it seemed to project toward absolutely anybody that wasn't a "good guy with a gun."
There was very little about this book, apart from detailed descriptions of military hardware and tactical operations, that struck me as compelling. The villain's evil plan is a flatly bad plan. There's no element of mystery, as each piece gets thoroughly explained mere pages before the good guys figure it out. The good guys themselves are very difficult to differentiate, and are seemingly divided between puerile wise-asses and grumps who say "dammit, you know what I mean" a lot. The prose alternates between ice cold cliches and ill-advised attempts to warm those cliches over.
Fundamentally, the problem is that this is less a book than it is a factory-produced canister of cynicism, arguing the case that the only hope (and it is a slim hope) for world peace lies in granting "dedicated fighting men" all of the technological and logistical support that they could ever want, along with a license to kill, total operational secrecy, and the freedom to choose their own missions independent of any lawful authority. If that sounds like blah-blah-blah to you, you might give it more stars. I found it hard to look past the absolute contempt it seemed to project toward absolutely anybody that wasn't a "good guy with a gun."
August 3, 2020
loved the quick pace of the story and look forward to part 2
January 22, 2013
A decent book to escape for a few hours, if you like the style.
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