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Mack Bolan the Executioner #82
Hammerhead Reef
Mack Bolan answers a journalists desperate cry for help, but arrives in Florida to find the reporter mysteriously murdered. And clues left by the man lead to a billion-dollar drug empire.
Narcotics smugglers seem to be always one step ahead of blockade attempts by U.S. agents. The Executioner suspects someone in high circles is leaking word to the drug runners. Bolan finally corners the mastermind in a surprise showdown.
Narcotics smugglers seem to be always one step ahead of blockade attempts by U.S. agents. The Executioner suspects someone in high circles is leaking word to the drug runners. Bolan finally corners the mastermind in a surprise showdown.
- GenresFiction
187 pages, Paperback
First published September 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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March 27, 2024
In Hammerhead Reef Mack Bolan visits Florida to take a break from fighting the Mafia and world terrorists. Instead he’s taking on drug runners and KGB influencers in Cuba.
Alan Bomack is no Mike Newton or Stephen Mertz, but he handles the job as an Executioner author fairly well, crafting another solid, albeit stereotypical entry into this ongoing series. As with basically every one of the books, this one has the requisite amount of action, violence, and good guys prevailing over bad ones.
However, Hammerhead Reef does feel a bit different from other books in that it reads more along the lines of an early 90’s Clive Cussler novel. Mack Bolan pulls a Dirk Pitt this time around as he dives on sunken ships, takes on bad guys underwater, and even faces off against bull and hammerhead sharks. It’s a different take on Bolan and it works well.
I wish the cover illustration was more indicative of the story but as someone who’s used to misleading Zebra horror cover art, I’m used to it.
Alan Bomack is no Mike Newton or Stephen Mertz, but he handles the job as an Executioner author fairly well, crafting another solid, albeit stereotypical entry into this ongoing series. As with basically every one of the books, this one has the requisite amount of action, violence, and good guys prevailing over bad ones.
However, Hammerhead Reef does feel a bit different from other books in that it reads more along the lines of an early 90’s Clive Cussler novel. Mack Bolan pulls a Dirk Pitt this time around as he dives on sunken ships, takes on bad guys underwater, and even faces off against bull and hammerhead sharks. It’s a different take on Bolan and it works well.
I wish the cover illustration was more indicative of the story but as someone who’s used to misleading Zebra horror cover art, I’m used to it.
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