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Mack Bolan the Executioner #75
The Bone Yard
Gold Eagle 1985 paperback fine In stock shipped from our UK warehouse
192 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 1985
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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
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January 30, 2024
Mack Bolan returns to Vegas after a decade or so away, ready to clean up some lose ends with the mafia and clear out a few new enemies in the process.
Mike Newton once again proves he is probably the best author to follow the original idea Don Pendleton had for the executioner since The Bone Yard harkens back to those first 38 Pendleton novels in which Mack was on a one-man vendetta against the mafia.
I’m more for the newer, action packed Bolan, so for me, these callbacks to the late 60’s and early 70’s books in this series generally don’t excite me quite as much. Not to say this wasn’t a decent entry into the series. There were plenty of moments of some pretty great action and violence (Bolan sniping mafiaosos from a tower a quarter mile away was a lot of fun), it’s that most of that takes a back seat to more drama and inner workings of the mafia.
Mike Newton once again proves he is probably the best author to follow the original idea Don Pendleton had for the executioner since The Bone Yard harkens back to those first 38 Pendleton novels in which Mack was on a one-man vendetta against the mafia.
I’m more for the newer, action packed Bolan, so for me, these callbacks to the late 60’s and early 70’s books in this series generally don’t excite me quite as much. Not to say this wasn’t a decent entry into the series. There were plenty of moments of some pretty great action and violence (Bolan sniping mafiaosos from a tower a quarter mile away was a lot of fun), it’s that most of that takes a back seat to more drama and inner workings of the mafia.
December 25, 2021
The book of this book should have just read, "Bolan Comes To Vegas And Kills A Bunch Of People, Right." Well, it's a bit more intricate than that, but you get the idea. An old Jewish mobster wants to reclaim what he thinks is rightfully his. Las Vegas. First he pits the Japanese Yakuza against the old guard, the Mafia. Enter Bolan to ventilate their heads and other parts of their bodies, right.
Much better than some of the other Gold Eagle books I've been reading latley, but still, formulaic and treads over well-traveled paths.
Much better than some of the other Gold Eagle books I've been reading latley, but still, formulaic and treads over well-traveled paths.
October 31, 2021
Another mobster bites the dust!
October 6, 2022
This is an update on Bolan's previous Vegas visit (Vegas Vendetta #9), where he left in a hurry with most of the mob still intact. Now he's back but now there's a three-way war already going on between the aging Jewish gangsters who originally set things up only to see the Mafia take over, said Mafia, plus a new player in the form of a Yakuza boss looking to expand to America.
It's a bit of an upgrade on the standard Bolan story in that there are already other enemies taking on the Mafia, although the Executioner of course isn't going to side with any of them, either. Worth reading as a bit of a shift from the more typical plot of just going after one Mafia or terrorist group per novel, plus the aspect of Vegas casino & crime history.
It's a bit of an upgrade on the standard Bolan story in that there are already other enemies taking on the Mafia, although the Executioner of course isn't going to side with any of them, either. Worth reading as a bit of a shift from the more typical plot of just going after one Mafia or terrorist group per novel, plus the aspect of Vegas casino & crime history.
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