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God Is/Executioner
329 pages, Paperback
First published August 7, 1987
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September 28, 2024
I was torn between 3 stars and 4 for this book. I think 3 1/2 is more fair so 4 stars won out.
The book is hard to follow at points and a lot of the plot gets a bit muddled, but the characters and situations are great and help balance out the act.
Matthew Pepper is a Vietnam vet who survived a mission that went tits up. Now he’s in the civilian world with a good job working alongside a Vietnamese colleague he saved. It’s part of a secret government project. Terrorists kidnap Pepper’s wife and son and force him to steal the plans or they will kill his family. The mission doesn’t go as planned and now Pepper’s wanted for murder. He’s on the run from the police and a British agent while trying to track down the terrorists responsible for his family’s kidnapping.
Along the way we find out Pepper is a bad ass killing machine who knows some mystical kung fu. There’s a great kung fu fight scene with one of the terrorists. There’s also a mysterious man with two noses pulling the strings behind the scenes. People from Pepper’s Vietnam past show up. Lots of double crosses. The British agent pursuing Pepper is filled with one liners. He also begins to suspect that Pepper maybe innocent.
It all ends with Pepper teaming up with a Native American (who works as a bouncer/custodian at a whore house) to take on a hippie doomsday cult in the Nevada desert. Yeah it gets a bit wild at the end to say the least.
The book is hard to follow at points and a lot of the plot gets a bit muddled, but the characters and situations are great and help balance out the act.
Matthew Pepper is a Vietnam vet who survived a mission that went tits up. Now he’s in the civilian world with a good job working alongside a Vietnamese colleague he saved. It’s part of a secret government project. Terrorists kidnap Pepper’s wife and son and force him to steal the plans or they will kill his family. The mission doesn’t go as planned and now Pepper’s wanted for murder. He’s on the run from the police and a British agent while trying to track down the terrorists responsible for his family’s kidnapping.
Along the way we find out Pepper is a bad ass killing machine who knows some mystical kung fu. There’s a great kung fu fight scene with one of the terrorists. There’s also a mysterious man with two noses pulling the strings behind the scenes. People from Pepper’s Vietnam past show up. Lots of double crosses. The British agent pursuing Pepper is filled with one liners. He also begins to suspect that Pepper maybe innocent.
It all ends with Pepper teaming up with a Native American (who works as a bouncer/custodian at a whore house) to take on a hippie doomsday cult in the Nevada desert. Yeah it gets a bit wild at the end to say the least.
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