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Mack Bolan the Executioner #133
Blood Run
The major mover in the cocaine trade has always escaped U.S. Government indictment. Now, with a little persuasion from the DEA, the drug king's top lieutenant has turned stoolie. His testimony will topple a million-dollar empire ... if the DEA can get him to Los Angeles alive. Worried about inside leaks, the Feds call in an unofficial escort.
The two-thousand mile run becomes a cross-country killing ground as the Bolan brothers and their charge are ambushed at every turn by free-lance gunners hungry for the bounty on the stoolie's head.
Two men against an army. But when the name is Bolan... it's enough.
The two-thousand mile run becomes a cross-country killing ground as the Bolan brothers and their charge are ambushed at every turn by free-lance gunners hungry for the bounty on the stoolie's head.
Two men against an army. But when the name is Bolan... it's enough.
224 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1989
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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 19, 2024
This is an excellent edge of your seat Executioner high octane thrill ride. Bolan and his brother in a race across the country to escort a key witness to indict a major drug lord. Every bad guy across the nation is out for the million dollar bounty on their heads and unable to trust anyone in the government the Bolan brothers have to blast their way through deadly ambushes and bloody double crosses.
March 26, 2018
For those who’ve never heard of the character let me give you his backstory. After two tours of Vietnam, Mack Bolan returned home to his loving family. Then one horrible day, the family decided to go for a picnic lunch in the park. Just when they started to chow down, two rival factions of the mafia started to go at it, with Bolan’s family cut down in the crossfire. His wife, son, and daughter were killed. From that day forward, Mack Bolan was determined to destroy the mafia and all other criminals that the law couldn’t touch. He became The Executioner.
Now if that sounds like a rip-off of the Punisher, you’d be half right. The Punisher is in fact a direct rip-off of the Executioner. The first Mack Bolan novel, War Against the Mafia, was published in 1969, while the Punisher made his debut in Amazing Spiderman #129 in 1974. It just so happens that copy outshone the original. The biggest reason for that is Generation X loves its comic books and they now have creative control of the film industry.
This book is what one would expect from a series that the Punisher was cloned from. The head of a Colombian cartel, Ernesto Vos, (an obvious analogue for Pablo Escobar) has been captured on American soil. There is only one witness left that can put the kingpin away for life. Consequently there is only one man who can make sure that the witness arrives at the trial alive, Mack Bolan. It is a race across the country as Mack Bolan, and his brother, dodge Neo-Nazi’s, biker gangs, crooked cops, and corrupt federal officials- all of whom were dreaming of the fat bounty. It is an action packed, blood fueled, violent ride. Does he make it on time? Of course, he’s Mack Bolan after all.
What impressed me is that he used a lot of real life details in constructing the narrative. The groups mentioned were real. The biker gang, The Mongols, is an actual violent gang. Little details like that really open it up for me. If you’re looking for some character growth, or an arc where it’s unsure that the hero will prevail, or he learns something of life or himself from blowing his enemies away, then this isn’t the book for you. It is nothing more than it advertises on the cover- And that’s not a bad thing.
Now if that sounds like a rip-off of the Punisher, you’d be half right. The Punisher is in fact a direct rip-off of the Executioner. The first Mack Bolan novel, War Against the Mafia, was published in 1969, while the Punisher made his debut in Amazing Spiderman #129 in 1974. It just so happens that copy outshone the original. The biggest reason for that is Generation X loves its comic books and they now have creative control of the film industry.
This book is what one would expect from a series that the Punisher was cloned from. The head of a Colombian cartel, Ernesto Vos, (an obvious analogue for Pablo Escobar) has been captured on American soil. There is only one witness left that can put the kingpin away for life. Consequently there is only one man who can make sure that the witness arrives at the trial alive, Mack Bolan. It is a race across the country as Mack Bolan, and his brother, dodge Neo-Nazi’s, biker gangs, crooked cops, and corrupt federal officials- all of whom were dreaming of the fat bounty. It is an action packed, blood fueled, violent ride. Does he make it on time? Of course, he’s Mack Bolan after all.
What impressed me is that he used a lot of real life details in constructing the narrative. The groups mentioned were real. The biker gang, The Mongols, is an actual violent gang. Little details like that really open it up for me. If you’re looking for some character growth, or an arc where it’s unsure that the hero will prevail, or he learns something of life or himself from blowing his enemies away, then this isn’t the book for you. It is nothing more than it advertises on the cover- And that’s not a bad thing.
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