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Mack Bolan the Executioner #70
Ice Cold Kill
Mack Bolan is asked to help a Soviet scientist defect and destroy the complex new computer he created
186 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1984
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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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November 9, 2023
Mack is in a race against time across the frozen wastes of Russian to deliver a defecting scientist. Alone, unarmed and facing insurmountable odds in bone-chilling weather, Bolan faces one of his most intense challenges.
December 1, 2023
I don’t know what it is but anytime Bolan is stuck in a cold, snow covered locale, his stories never seem to resonate with me.
It’s too bad because Ice Cold Kill is one of the most action packed entries in the executioner series.
The problem is that it’s weighed down with locations in countries I don’t care about (Russia, Ukraine, Romania), in cities I don’t know, with names of characters from these places that are long and confusing.
The plot is simple enough (Bolan goes to rescue/convince a computer hacker to come to America and defect from the clutches of communism), but it’s buried so deep amongst too many double crosses and red herrings that it becomes confusing.
It’s also one of the longest of the series up to this point so every chapter just prolongs a story that could have been summed up quicker.
It’s too bad because Ice Cold Kill is one of the most action packed entries in the executioner series.
The problem is that it’s weighed down with locations in countries I don’t care about (Russia, Ukraine, Romania), in cities I don’t know, with names of characters from these places that are long and confusing.
The plot is simple enough (Bolan goes to rescue/convince a computer hacker to come to America and defect from the clutches of communism), but it’s buried so deep amongst too many double crosses and red herrings that it becomes confusing.
It’s also one of the longest of the series up to this point so every chapter just prolongs a story that could have been summed up quicker.
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July 23, 2025This was recommended by a friend who knew that I’d read a number of Ian Fleming’s Bond books in the late 1970’s, early 1980’s. Unfortunately, I was no longer interested in this genre by that time. I read it anyway. Yeah, definitely no longer my cup o’tea.
September 6, 2024
Classic Mack Bolan
October 8, 2024
Pretty good Bolan adventure. He sneaks into Russia to help a scientist defect to the west! My only issue was that in the many books in this series that I’ve read he never has piloted a helicopter or plane. He always has his buddy do it. In this one he steals a Russian helicopter and takes off no problem. Hey!!
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