Extraction

Mack Bolan the Executioner #416

by Russell Davis, Don Pendleton (Series Creator)

Diplomatic Ammunition

Minutes after his arrival in Madagascar, the U.S. Secretary of State gets kidnapped by a terrorist organization, and the White House goes on red alert. Unable to stage a rescue without causing an international incident, the President turns to the one man who can get the politician out alive. But this time Mack Bolan won't be working alone.

Dodging bullets at every turn and hunted by an assassin as dangerous as he is, Bolan partners with an operative from his past to help him track the captors. But nothing is what it seems in Madagascar. The lines between traitor and rogue are not only blurred, they make a deadly combination…especially when it comes to trust and betrayal. As the ransom clock counts down, the Executioner will need to employ every stealth move he knows to get the secretary—and himself—out of the island nation alive.

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

[Lionel Taylor · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have read quite a few books in the Executioner series and while this was not the worse one I have read, it is definitely not the best. The Secretary of State is Kidnapped in Madagascar of all places with the full knowledge of the Secretary of the Interior? What?! Well, this is interesting I thought. But ultimately nothing is done with this angle and the story just moves on. This is the case with several characters that are introduced with the sole purpose of dying just a few chapters later and hardly even moving the story forward at that. The story hits all the standard actions confrontations but all of the characters are not very well fleshed out, not even Bolan himself. If this were my first book in the series I would have no idea what type of person Bolan was. Even the villain's motivations are vague and the reader is expected to just accept that he is evil because they say he is and the motivations for his actions are not really explained all that well. The ending is just as disappointing and like other books in the series just seem to end because the author hit his page quota. If you like actions and nothing but action, this book is for you but if you like at least a little bit of plot and story with all the shooting skip this one.