Ivory Wave

Mack Bolan the Executioner #415

by Russell Davis, Don Pendleton (Series Creator)

SHOCK WAVE

It's as legal to buy as bath salts, but Ivory Wave isn't for human consumption. So when a rash of deaths spreads across the Midwest, Mack Bolan has to find out who's making the lethal concoction—who's killing American teens—and shut them down permanently. But he quickly discovers that it's a powerful crime family behind the narcotic, and the mob considers it a legitimate source of income. Taking the deadly drug supply off the market will be no easy task.

With the White House telling him to back off and Stony Man Farm's hands tied, the Executioner has only one way into the organization—put himself directly in the cross fire of the two hot-blooded Mafia brothers battling for control of the family business.

Sometimes the only way to beat them is to join the war.

192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Best-selling author and editor Russell Davis has written and sold numerous novels and short stories in virtually every genre of fiction, under at least a half-dozen pseudonyms. His writing has encompassed media tie-in work in the TRANSFORMERS universe to action adventure in THE EXECUTIONER series to original novels and short fiction in anthology titles like UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS, LAW OF THE GUN, and IN THE SHADOW OF EVIL. In addition to his work as a writer, he has worked as an editor and book packager, and created original anthology titles ranging from westerns like LOST TRAILS to fantasy like COURTS OF THE FEY. He is a regular speaker at conferences and schools, where he teaches on writing, editing and the fundamentals of the publishing industry. A past president of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, Russell recently now writes and edits full time.

Pseudonyms:
Cliff Ryder
David Cian
R. Davis
D.L. Lawson
Jenna Solitaire
Christopher Tracy

Reviews

[Monica Willyard Moen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ivory wave is a legal drug that has become popular with teenagers across America. However, someone is adding a little something special to the most recent batches, causing deaths by heart attack and by suicide. The executioner is called in by a friend who’s daughter killed herself by slitting her own throat after taking ivory wave. He vows to figure out what is going on and who is behind the rash of deaths.

[Eric Troup · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book had a lot going for it, as far as I was concerned. I've enjoyed the author's previous contributions to the series, and this is my favorite kind of Mack Bolan mission --the personal ones. No saving the world from some terrorist plot this time around --at least, not on a grand scale. Just trying to avenge the death of a friend's daughter and keep other teenagers from suffering the same fate. I wish there were more Executioner stories written this way.

In all fairness, take my rating with a grain of salt. I have a feeling that, had I been able to read this book in my usual two or shree days, rather than taking a month and a half due to life's little curve-balls, I might have given the book a higher rating. I skewed its ability to build momentum, and in a genre like action-adventure, momentum can be critical. I do heartily recommend this book.