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Super Bolan #147
Shadow Strike
Eco-Armageddon is the goal of a far-reaching plan with the scope, vision and power to strike oil rigs around the globe. With unprecedented disaster looming, Mack Bolan begins the hunt to identify and stop the terror dealers behind the threat. A trail that starts in Brooklyn's underworld leads to black market underwater mines, the looting and sinking of a British destroyer carrying gold, and the purchase of Hercules transports in Miami. The long arm of the terrorist operation, brilliantly organized by a vengeance-hungry madman, is soon to be hijacked by the Russian mob. Adding rocket torpedoes to the punishing arsenal, the enemy is all but invincible, possessing the technology, the soldiers and the greed to kill millions and doom the world.
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First published January 1, 2012
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Nick Pollotta
41 books26 followersNick Pollotta also writes as Nicholas Pollotta, Jack Hopkins, and house names James Axler and Don Pendleton.
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January 19, 2020
Paperback 2020 Book #2
Oh lord. Testosterone Harlequin I choose you. For the first two chapters of this book I wondered what I had gotten myself into with this paperback challenge I set myself. I almost gave up on this one and tossed it but decided to just ignore the writing and power through. By the end I was engrossed and staying in my favorite reading spot WAYY too long for the comfort of my legs and backside.
Is this good? Not at all. Is it *exactly* what the tin says it is? Absolutely. This is pure action escapism and nothing more. It's one of those books you pick up at a truck stop because you know you're going to have some downtime at some point and you need *something* to read other than your phone screen. I picked it up after it was withdrawn from the paperback rack for purely nostalgic reasons. I was never a huge Mack Bolan fan, but I did have a few similar series that I adored (Endworld, CADS, and Doc Savage mostly). I call them similar not because of setting or genre but because of how they are written and how akin to tinned popcorn they are. They're not the fresh made popcorn of movie theaters, they are the popcorn of christmas gifts from distant relatives... but they still hit the spot when you're really just craving popcorn and nothing better is in the house.
Would I recommend it? Totally. If you know what you are getting into.
I could give a synopsis of the story but... really? They're all the same and if you've read one you've read them all: Mack finds a lead on some really bad guys who are trying to do something really bad. Mack then kills a bunch of people in brutal fashion with skills that no real human could hope to match. Throughout this the book spends pages dedicated to listing exactly what the weapons, gear, and clothing being worn by everyone is. There's likely a girl. She may doublecross Mack or sleep with Mack... or often both. There's this attempt to setup a sense of dread and danger but no reader buys that because we all know Mack can't be beat. Mack single-handedly (maybe he has a helper or two) dispatches the bad guys and saves the world. The end.
Oh lord. Testosterone Harlequin I choose you. For the first two chapters of this book I wondered what I had gotten myself into with this paperback challenge I set myself. I almost gave up on this one and tossed it but decided to just ignore the writing and power through. By the end I was engrossed and staying in my favorite reading spot WAYY too long for the comfort of my legs and backside.
Is this good? Not at all. Is it *exactly* what the tin says it is? Absolutely. This is pure action escapism and nothing more. It's one of those books you pick up at a truck stop because you know you're going to have some downtime at some point and you need *something* to read other than your phone screen. I picked it up after it was withdrawn from the paperback rack for purely nostalgic reasons. I was never a huge Mack Bolan fan, but I did have a few similar series that I adored (Endworld, CADS, and Doc Savage mostly). I call them similar not because of setting or genre but because of how they are written and how akin to tinned popcorn they are. They're not the fresh made popcorn of movie theaters, they are the popcorn of christmas gifts from distant relatives... but they still hit the spot when you're really just craving popcorn and nothing better is in the house.
Would I recommend it? Totally. If you know what you are getting into.
I could give a synopsis of the story but... really? They're all the same and if you've read one you've read them all: Mack finds a lead on some really bad guys who are trying to do something really bad. Mack then kills a bunch of people in brutal fashion with skills that no real human could hope to match. Throughout this the book spends pages dedicated to listing exactly what the weapons, gear, and clothing being worn by everyone is. There's likely a girl. She may doublecross Mack or sleep with Mack... or often both. There's this attempt to setup a sense of dread and danger but no reader buys that because we all know Mack can't be beat. Mack single-handedly (maybe he has a helper or two) dispatches the bad guys and saves the world. The end.
July 17, 2021
Shadow Strike
Good action from the start. Keeps you glued to the book. Lot of twists and turns to keep you interested in the story line.
Good action from the start. Keeps you glued to the book. Lot of twists and turns to keep you interested in the story line.
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