Blood and Thunder

Mack Bolan the Executioner #95

by Don Pendleton (Series Creator), Dan Schmidt (Contributor)

SPECTER OF A DIRTY WAR Vietnam, the conflict that spawned heroes and rogues, still haunts America. Years after the war, a renegade CIA adviser from Nam reopens an opium pipeline he had started in Southeast Asia, using the profits to supply arms to international terrorists. He chooses no sides or causes, only the highest bidder. To Mack Bolan, this is the worst kind of treachery, and when the Executioner confronts the traitor and his Apocalypse Brigade, it's Vietnam all over again.

Genres: Fiction

252 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published October 1, 1986

About the author

Don 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

Reviews

[Jordan Anderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

When Bolan isn’t busy kicking the ass of the Mafia or snuffing out child predators, he makes sure to set aside some time to wage war against homegrown terrorists, and in “Blood and Thunder”, we get to see him travel to New Mexico to take on an ex-CIA handler gone rogue. Along the way, he saves a pregnant woman, a Native American woman, and a whole bunch of other subjugated people’s, while still managing to blow up 3 helicopters, numerous bad guys, and, once again, keep America safe for a few more hours. This is basically the very same formula we have seen for 60 plus books; There’s nothing new or especially eye opening in this one, but at least it’s entertaining, explosive, and exciting. There’s a bit too much philosophizing and an obvious PSA about the treatment of native Americans, however, Dan Schmidt, given the unenviable job of following up Mertz’s insanely well done “Save the Children” does a decent job handling Bolan’s character and keeping the overall series moving in a positive direction. Wouldn’t say this is true essential Bolan reading, yet it’s still a good addition to the overall series, even if it’s more along the lines of another “filler” book.

[colleen · Rating 2 out of 5]

read 05.18.91

[Madleetgeek · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun fun fun!