What do you think?
Rate this book
Super Bolan #3
Resurrection Day
Mack Bolan, nemesis of human evil, has come full circle. The unending odyssey of a blood-filled career pits him face-to-face once more against his oldest foe.
After an uneasy sleep, the Mafia is disturbed by rumbles of Bolan's return. But this time, the Executioner is flanked by his lost brother, Johnny.
The dark side of humankind will recoil from the effect of two Bolans unleashed.
After an uneasy sleep, the Mafia is disturbed by rumbles of Bolan's return. But this time, the Executioner is flanked by his lost brother, Johnny.
The dark side of humankind will recoil from the effect of two Bolans unleashed.
Mass Market Paperback
Published February 1, 1985
32 people want to read
About the author
Don Pendleton
1,517 books188 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
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
February 4, 2024
The third “Mack Bolan” (or “Super Bolan” as they quickly became known) does it’s job as decent escapism reading but doesn’t offer much in regards to being a stand out novel or even story.
Cunningham, who already cut his teeth writing some of the more action packed “Executioner” novels pretty much does the exact same thing here, focusing far more on explosions and gun fights than outright plot development. Not that that’s a bad thing by any means, however, most of what occurs in Resurrection Day is just a total paint-by-numbers kind of story; Bolan does his thing, although this time around it’s expanded into a double length novel, leading to some extreme stretches of a story that could have easily been packed into a typical 180 page book.
The addition of Bolan’s brother (who we haven’t seen in over a decade) made for some nice nostalgia as well as some emotion, yet his inclusion meant an entirely separate plot that felt contrived, leading to one of the more unrealistic/unbelievable moments in this entire series.
As usual, I’m not complaining since you know exactly what you’re gonna get with these books. Plus this one was an extremely fast read (I was able to read like 200 pages in a single session), but in terms of the Bolan-verse, this wasn’t one of the more memorable ones.
Cunningham, who already cut his teeth writing some of the more action packed “Executioner” novels pretty much does the exact same thing here, focusing far more on explosions and gun fights than outright plot development. Not that that’s a bad thing by any means, however, most of what occurs in Resurrection Day is just a total paint-by-numbers kind of story; Bolan does his thing, although this time around it’s expanded into a double length novel, leading to some extreme stretches of a story that could have easily been packed into a typical 180 page book.
The addition of Bolan’s brother (who we haven’t seen in over a decade) made for some nice nostalgia as well as some emotion, yet his inclusion meant an entirely separate plot that felt contrived, leading to one of the more unrealistic/unbelievable moments in this entire series.
As usual, I’m not complaining since you know exactly what you’re gonna get with these books. Plus this one was an extremely fast read (I was able to read like 200 pages in a single session), but in terms of the Bolan-verse, this wasn’t one of the more memorable ones.
November 30, 2025
This is the third of the books called Superbolan - extended versions of the original Mack Bolan books. And this is one of the best ones at that. This is after the raid on stony Man Farms that took the life of Bolan’s woman April Rose. The executioner is back to his old tricks taking on the mob one strong house at a time. This one adds the twist of his younger brother Johnny Bolan entering the fray. There’s actually quite a bit written about Johnny showing him in the Navy fighting in Lebanon and killing a man for the first time. Then it jumps forward a few years and Johnny is living in San Diego working for a free legal aid group. He runs a foul of the mob when his girlfriend‘s father sees a cocaine deal offshore and the next thing you know him and Mack are crossing paths in a war against the mob. They don’t actually meet up till near the end of the book, but there’s a great battle scene right at the end with the two brothers whooping ass. The side story of the Nepo, baby daughters of the mob bosses trying to run their own group called Hard Corps was handled pretty well, but unfortunately, it was kind of left dangling and quickly wrapped up. I felt like this could’ve been a good group of protagonist for bowling and Johnny to take on since it was a bunch of young ladies and not a bunch of old mobsters that they’re used to. At any rate this is a really good early Superbolan can’t recommend this one enough.
March 6, 2022
Many years ago the Mafia entered the lives of Mack Bolan and his little brother John. Mack leaving the Army when his family is all but wiped out as a result of Mafia involvement...John after surviving allows himself to be adopted and changes his name to Johnny Bolan Gray. Johnny joins the Navy and after coming home settles down to a job in a lawyer's office...Meets a girl named Sandy Darlow and falls in love...Sandy's Father Karl sees something he shouldn't while out on his fishing boat and is targeted and killed. Mack "The Bastard" Bolan comes to town on a hunt for drug operations and runs into his little brother...Johnny had though Mack dead as he'd been told years before. Fearing Sandy is not safe Johnny moves her to another house incase the Mafia think Karl has told her what he saw or what he knew...One night while talking with Mack Johnny gets a call from Sandy telling him someone was trying to break in. The brothers Bolan go quickly to the house to find it trashed and Sandy taken...When they find her she is barely alive and Johnny does as she pleads and ends her life...Mack and Johnny rain hellfire on Don Manny "The Mover" Marcello...Excellent book well worth the read.
September 26, 2023
An early entry in the double-length Superbolan series, and this one hasn't found its footing. While typically I find the shorter Bolan books to be a bit rushed, this one feels desperate to fill space. From the irrelevant cold open whose plot threads I kept expecting to return, to the B story about the mob boss's daughter's attempt to develop her own criminal enterprise, none of the elements ever come together to form a cohesive whole. Maybe it was developed from stories intended to be part of the shorter series?
September 22, 2021
Mack and John Bolan are back together.
January 5, 2016
Bolan's brother, Johnny is the star in this "Super Bolan" book. At 370+ pages it is a little drawn out. The main plot concerns Johnny Gray Bolan, Macks brother. He comes out of the navy and guess what, he's got problems with the mob too. Mack comes in from time to time to take out some cosa nostra trash, then back to the story. Not bad, but should have been a bit shorter.
Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews