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Stolen Arrows
CRASH INTERCEPT
A major CIA sting operation goes disastrously wrong, putting four miniature nukes from an American Cold War project on the free market. The bloody snatch-and-grab work done, all that remains for double agent Cirello Zalhares and his rogue cadre is to sell the weapons, collect their millions and get off U.S. soil before the mushroom clouds rewrite history.
Turning over rocks in the nation's major crime organizations, Mack Bolan's hard probe targets the buyer's market for the weapons and the bidding war for disaster. When the laws of supply and demand clash with the law of the jungle, the only way to avert the unthinkable is head-on.
No deals. No mercy.
352 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 19, 2013
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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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July 18, 2024
I'd never read a "Mac Bolan" novel before... and I'll never read another one again.
The character has been around since 1969 and he and his extended universe boast over 600 unique titles. At times during its history, the various Bolan books have been published at a rate of one per month. All of these books bear the name Don Pendleton as author, but in truth Pendleton has been dead for nearly 30 years and hadn't written a Bolan novel since 1980.
During the 44 years since Pendleton stopped writing the series, the books have been ghostwritten by a bullpen of no fewer than 70 authors. I don't know who wrote this one, and I suppose it doesn't matter. But that sort of assembly line approach has to have lead to some wild stylistic differences and countless continuity errors for those keeping score at home. And it goes without saying that the plots are more or less cut 'n paste deals with all the creative freshness of a dirty clothes hamper.
This particular title is about as generic as you can get. It's store brand Jack Carr and Brad Thor, with a plot that seems ripped from a direct-to-streaming Steven Seagal movie. Its one relative saving grace is that the action is pretty relentless despite the worn out and creatively bankrupt plot. Unfortunately that action isn't very fun because the story and characters don't give you any reason to care.
Like I said, there are north of 600 of these books, and I'm sure that there are a few good ones tucked in amongst them. This isn't one of them.
The character has been around since 1969 and he and his extended universe boast over 600 unique titles. At times during its history, the various Bolan books have been published at a rate of one per month. All of these books bear the name Don Pendleton as author, but in truth Pendleton has been dead for nearly 30 years and hadn't written a Bolan novel since 1980.
During the 44 years since Pendleton stopped writing the series, the books have been ghostwritten by a bullpen of no fewer than 70 authors. I don't know who wrote this one, and I suppose it doesn't matter. But that sort of assembly line approach has to have lead to some wild stylistic differences and countless continuity errors for those keeping score at home. And it goes without saying that the plots are more or less cut 'n paste deals with all the creative freshness of a dirty clothes hamper.
This particular title is about as generic as you can get. It's store brand Jack Carr and Brad Thor, with a plot that seems ripped from a direct-to-streaming Steven Seagal movie. Its one relative saving grace is that the action is pretty relentless despite the worn out and creatively bankrupt plot. Unfortunately that action isn't very fun because the story and characters don't give you any reason to care.
Like I said, there are north of 600 of these books, and I'm sure that there are a few good ones tucked in amongst them. This isn't one of them.
February 5, 2021
Stolen Arrow
Good action from the start. It keeps up through the whole book. It's fast paced and good reading. If you are a Bolan fan, you will like.
Good action from the start. It keeps up through the whole book. It's fast paced and good reading. If you are a Bolan fan, you will like.
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