The Executioner, Featuring Mack Bolan, #138: Kill Trap

Mack Bolan the Executioner #138

by Don Pendleton

America's top-secret prototype helicopter - a flying arsenal of high-tech death - is maneuvering for a test kill when the aircraft suddenly erupts into a fireball. Sabotage is suspected, but the evil mole is well hidden.Mack Bolan goes undercover as a Pentagon colonel to find the traitor, but a killer's stiletto and a brutal double murder tell the Executioner there's more at stake than electronic warfare secrets. Soon he's on a terrifying fast track of death, leading from a beautiful assassin to the boss's boss - a man who's very dangerous and very foreign.When they try to kill Bolan again, he decides his role camoflage isn't doing the trick. It's time to drop the hammer.

Mass Market Paperback

First published May 1, 1990

About the author

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.

Wikipedia: Don Pendleton

Reviews

[Logan Boone · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was hilariously bad. It felt like I was reading an Austin Powers movie in book form. That being said, I needed a palate cleanser and it was such a blast to get through. Judo Chopping it to 3 stars because of how fun it was.

[William Whalen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Every so often, Mack just doesn't feel like the Executioner. This, alas, is one of those times. It is not bad, but, it just doesn't feel true to the character.

[Lane · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice fast read with lots of action. Good summer escape read.