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Mack Bolan the Executioner #88
Baltimore Trackdown
A police chief betrays his code of honor to the Mafia and tries to persuade fellow officers to accept money from the Mob. Those who refuse are killed.
Through all his miles along the hellfire trail, the Executioner has always looked on the police as soldiers on the same side.
But Mack Bolan sees this lawman as a traitor, both to his badge and to Bolans cause. Will the warrior break his own rules to stop the corrupt cop?
Through all his miles along the hellfire trail, the Executioner has always looked on the police as soldiers on the same side.
But Mack Bolan sees this lawman as a traitor, both to his badge and to Bolans cause. Will the warrior break his own rules to stop the corrupt cop?
189 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1986
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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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May 26, 2024
Full disclosure: Baltimore Trackdown was not an Executioner book I was looking forward to reading. The synopsis of Bolan fighting the Mafia (and crooked cops) in Baltimore sounded so repetitive and contrived from quite a few proceeding books that I expected to just power through it, be done, and be on my merry way of my goal of completing every book in this 464 book series (as well as the 100+ “Super Bolans" and the the plethora of "Stony Man" spin-offs).
Imagine my surprise when this one ended up being totally kick ass and one of the best in a very long time. Of course this latest entry has multiple elements that populate every Executioner novel, and of course it’s been done 80 something times before, but damn if Chet Cunningham didn’t go ham while writing this one.
From a blazing fast pace, to an engaging plot Baltimore Trackdown is everything this series needs to be. It’s one of the most action packed and violent of the Executioner books since Doomsday Disciples or Crude Kill (which Cunningham wrote as well) and Bolan is on an absolute war path here, living up to his nickname by mowing down deserving mafia hoods left and right with no remorse. He ties one dude to the front of a car and drives it straight into a fiery explosion. He stabs another bad guy straight in the heart with a sharpened billiards cue. He gets into a 40 plus page shoot out with a contract killer, and lights a crooked cop on fire. That’s not even considering the multiple nameless goons he annihilates with his AutoMag, an uzi, or his deadly fists.
This book is mean spirited, gory, and most of all, the most fun I’ve had reading this series since way back in Executioner 74: Savanah Swingsaw.
Clearly this one will go down as one of my favorites and easily deserves every one of those 5 stars.
Imagine my surprise when this one ended up being totally kick ass and one of the best in a very long time. Of course this latest entry has multiple elements that populate every Executioner novel, and of course it’s been done 80 something times before, but damn if Chet Cunningham didn’t go ham while writing this one.
From a blazing fast pace, to an engaging plot Baltimore Trackdown is everything this series needs to be. It’s one of the most action packed and violent of the Executioner books since Doomsday Disciples or Crude Kill (which Cunningham wrote as well) and Bolan is on an absolute war path here, living up to his nickname by mowing down deserving mafia hoods left and right with no remorse. He ties one dude to the front of a car and drives it straight into a fiery explosion. He stabs another bad guy straight in the heart with a sharpened billiards cue. He gets into a 40 plus page shoot out with a contract killer, and lights a crooked cop on fire. That’s not even considering the multiple nameless goons he annihilates with his AutoMag, an uzi, or his deadly fists.
This book is mean spirited, gory, and most of all, the most fun I’ve had reading this series since way back in Executioner 74: Savanah Swingsaw.
Clearly this one will go down as one of my favorites and easily deserves every one of those 5 stars.
January 12, 2020
Like seeing bad guys get what’s coming to them? Like seeing bad guys punished by being strapped to the front bumper of a demolition derby car? Then this book is for you.
December 11, 2021
Still a good outlet to see vigilante justice done
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