Don 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.
This book seemed particularly dark and savage compared to the rest of the series. It’s well written, and I think it’s probably just me and thinks it seems particularly dark. The premise of the book is that the Executioner was asked by our government to accompany a mission from the CIA to deal with terrorists across the globe. Unfortunately, at least some of the missions members are compromised and are acting as double or independent agents. They are willing to kill anyone who gets in their way, no matter which side that person happens to be on.
I did not enjoy this story. Mack teaming up with a sadistic traitor that tortured numerous people in front of Mack and just letting it go. This team was rotten and Mack knew it but he still let his guard down to be grabbed and beaten up. just not a book that kept my version Bolan in mind of the author