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The Executioner #8
Chicago Wipe-Out
To save the country, the Executioner infiltrates the capital of crime
When he began his one-man assault on the Mafia, ex–army sniper Mack Bolan imagined it as a war of attrition. Kill enough button men and underbosses, made guys and capos, and the international crime syndicate would finally collapse. But when he learned that the Mafia was planning a full-scale takeover of the US government, the Executioner realized attrition would not be enough. The Mafia must be destroyed, and the place to do it is Chicago.
The battle for Chicago starts with a single shot when Bolan pulls the trigger and ends the life of underboss Louis Aurielli. In a city where every politician, businessman, and cop is on the mob payroll, he will have nowhere to hide. But that’s okay with Bolan—sometimes it’s better to fight in the open.
When he began his one-man assault on the Mafia, ex–army sniper Mack Bolan imagined it as a war of attrition. Kill enough button men and underbosses, made guys and capos, and the international crime syndicate would finally collapse. But when he learned that the Mafia was planning a full-scale takeover of the US government, the Executioner realized attrition would not be enough. The Mafia must be destroyed, and the place to do it is Chicago.
The battle for Chicago starts with a single shot when Bolan pulls the trigger and ends the life of underboss Louis Aurielli. In a city where every politician, businessman, and cop is on the mob payroll, he will have nowhere to hide. But that’s okay with Bolan—sometimes it’s better to fight in the open.
200 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1971
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About the author
Don Pendleton
1,520 books190 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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October 23, 2021
Two storms are about to blow into Chicago, a bitter cold winter snowstorm and Mack Bolan, the scourge of the Mafia underworld. It’s a blizzard of bloodshed as Bolan looks to break the mob’s death grip on the city, exploiting their own paranoia, narcissism and arrogance to bring about their downfall.
January 10, 2020
Pendleton's Executioner series is always a treat to read. The books are always action-packed and lots of fun. Vietnam War sharpshooter Mack Bolan takes his battle tactics stateside in a war to wipe out the Mafia. Bolan's methods are a little unorthodox and do not involve slowly gathering evidence and prosecuting. Rather, Bolan takes the battle to the enemy and survival is always the name of the game.
Here, Bolan is determined to clean up mobbed-up Chicago and he takes on all the hoods he can find in all-out war. Of course, the story features a sexy woman to play off Bolan and this time it's Jimmy
James, one of the Foxy Lady centerfolds, who is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Bolan becomes her protector and teaches her the ways of surviving in his world.
Much of the story consists of Bolan pottting Mafia bosses against each other and it can at times be confusing who is who.
Here, Bolan is determined to clean up mobbed-up Chicago and he takes on all the hoods he can find in all-out war. Of course, the story features a sexy woman to play off Bolan and this time it's Jimmy
James, one of the Foxy Lady centerfolds, who is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Bolan becomes her protector and teaches her the ways of surviving in his world.
Much of the story consists of Bolan pottting Mafia bosses against each other and it can at times be confusing who is who.
December 30, 2019
With Nightmare in New York (The Executioner #7) and Chicago Wipe-Out (The Executioner #8) I believe Don Pendleton has hit his stride with The Executioner series. Books #7 and #8 in the series are full-on fun men's adventure novels of the 70's. I'm not really sure what Mr. Pendleton was trying to do in books #5 and #6 but those books, to me, just seemed kind of strange.
I believe this is the first book where the female lead character (in this case Jimi James) did not get shot, tortured, beat up or killed. I think she gave Bolan a chance to unwind and feel human again...at least for a while.
While the War Wagon was first mentioned toward the end of Nightmare in New York (The Executioner #7), here is where he outfits it to truly be a machine of war and he uses it quite a bit.
I enjoyed these novels when I first read them in high school and I'm enjoying re-reading them now.
I believe this is the first book where the female lead character (in this case Jimi James) did not get shot, tortured, beat up or killed. I think she gave Bolan a chance to unwind and feel human again...at least for a while.
While the War Wagon was first mentioned toward the end of Nightmare in New York (The Executioner #7), here is where he outfits it to truly be a machine of war and he uses it quite a bit.
I enjoyed these novels when I first read them in high school and I'm enjoying re-reading them now.
October 8, 2019
Bolan arrives in Chicago, a hotbed of mob activity, and vows destruction of the Mafia families that control the corrupt city. Rather than battle the mob directly, Bolan uses the information provided by a man who had researched the corruption, a man who paid a steep price when his life was devastated by revenge, to identity and manipulate the families into a war with each other. It was interesting that the the book focused more on the Mafia characters than Bolan himself, and that the obligatory love interest, a dancer named Jimi, was merely a minor character. Another very good entry in the long-running series.
December 23, 2019
One of my favorite from the early action/adventure series: Bolan is in Mob city, Chicago, to bust some Mafia heads. Also on the horizon: a major snowstorm. Our hero enlists a crime-fighting lawyer for the inside info on the nefarious bad guys.
Throw in the usual in-fighting among the differing regimes, and a lady of the night, and it's a fast roller coaster of fun.
Throw in the usual in-fighting among the differing regimes, and a lady of the night, and it's a fast roller coaster of fun.
October 9, 2018
A huge step in the right direction after Nightmare in New York. Wipeout has a action packed first half then slows right down on the action as Bolan runs around in disguises and manipulates events. I thought it was a great change of pace and the novel didn't feature any annoying characters. This one has some great action, but its quite fun and cerebral too.
October 10, 2018
That was a fun ride. A different side to Bolan as he uses the chameleon approach to stack the mob in Chicago against each other. It's been fun so far catching up with Bolan from the very start. Onwards
August 24, 2015
Far from my favorite in this series. Way too much exposition and not enough action.
December 20, 2020
Mack Bolan knew what he was walking into at Chicago. There were no illusions of his own invincibility, and certainly no misjudgement of enemy power in this stronghold of organized crime. This was the city that the mob owned, the self-professed crime capital of the Western World, the locale of the mob’s deepest entrenchment anywhere. And Bolan’s challenge was knowingly hurled into the teeth of that vast empire
...what is needed here is a bit of direct action, strategically planned, and to hell with the rules.
And during that trip Bolan quit wondering why sometimes a cop or a lawyer or a judge went sour, or hard, or just plain bad; he had to wonder, instead, how any of them ever kept from it. He had to wonder, also, if any of this war was really worth it. Was anything actually worth fighting for?
According to Stein’s notes, more than two-hundred-million bucks a year were being sucked out of the Chicago ghettoes by the system, and not a damn cent was finding its way back in. So bigtime crime created—indirectly—small-time crimes, juvenile delinquents, broken homes, junkies, and human misery of every description. This was Bolan’s message from Central, as finally broken down and assimilated. And yeah, that hand was still on his shoulder. Someone had to stop sucking and start putting back in.
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...what is needed here is a bit of direct action, strategically planned, and to hell with the rules.
And during that trip Bolan quit wondering why sometimes a cop or a lawyer or a judge went sour, or hard, or just plain bad; he had to wonder, instead, how any of them ever kept from it. He had to wonder, also, if any of this war was really worth it. Was anything actually worth fighting for?
According to Stein’s notes, more than two-hundred-million bucks a year were being sucked out of the Chicago ghettoes by the system, and not a damn cent was finding its way back in. So bigtime crime created—indirectly—small-time crimes, juvenile delinquents, broken homes, junkies, and human misery of every description. This was Bolan’s message from Central, as finally broken down and assimilated. And yeah, that hand was still on his shoulder. Someone had to stop sucking and start putting back in.
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June 6, 2023
Sarge is in the mob's blueprint city to wipe out more baddies. Good adventure tale from the early 70s.
September 20, 2019
In this installment of Mack Bolan, he pits family members against family members. He sets up various Capo and sub-Capos to battle against each other. When the fight ensues, he jumps in the middle to make certain, the various leaders all succumb.
January 26, 2020
The good thing about this long running series is that there's a pretty good prologue that explains the setting. This way you can pretty much start anywhere in the series though I still recommend starting from book 1.
Basically this is a 1970's pulp fiction action book where an aggrieved vigilante takes on the American Mafia. He has a few adventures on the east coast, west coast, France, England and now to Chicago. There's a bit of pontification in this book about crime and corruption, otherwise it's more of the same violence and a bit of sex. I skipped over some of the slow moving parts and just concentrated on how he's taking on the Chicago Mob. A little bit disappointed that the Chicago Mob doesn't seem to be that different from the mobs from elsewhere.
Overall an ok book. I'm going to take a small rest from this series.
Basically this is a 1970's pulp fiction action book where an aggrieved vigilante takes on the American Mafia. He has a few adventures on the east coast, west coast, France, England and now to Chicago. There's a bit of pontification in this book about crime and corruption, otherwise it's more of the same violence and a bit of sex. I skipped over some of the slow moving parts and just concentrated on how he's taking on the Chicago Mob. A little bit disappointed that the Chicago Mob doesn't seem to be that different from the mobs from elsewhere.
Overall an ok book. I'm going to take a small rest from this series.
September 8, 2014
Escapism. While the author seems to spend more time than is really necessary to explain the moral justification for all of the killing that takes place, the action is vivid. The good guy, former Army sergeant Mack Bolan, can never win just because of the sheer magnitude of his quest, but he keeps at, never losing his determination or inner morality. Bolan arrives in Chicago with only one thing in his mind, to destroy as many of his enemies in organized crime as ha can, by any means necessary, including subterfuge to get them killing each other. It's a "guy" read mainly, considering when it was written, but women who like action and danger around every corner might like it too. Word of warning, the violence is graphic and plentiful.
June 9, 2020
Re reading the Pendleton written Executioners after a couple of decades and they hold up great. This one is one of the better ones. Using two parts of the mafia against each other along with the cops as well. It really is a good tale.
Highly recommended for fans of the genre, these first 40 or so Executioners are the best of the genre.
Highly recommended for fans of the genre, these first 40 or so Executioners are the best of the genre.
December 25, 2019
A good read if you like 60s-70s action genre.
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July 6, 2020No more "poop" book, thankfully! (See my review for book #7.)
Pendleton continues to get more ambitious with his writing -- to good and bad effect. First, the good. The action scenes are getting more creative. There's one particular scene in a blizzard that's told from the perspective of the woman Bolan is trying to save from the bad guys. For example, as he guides her seemingly blindly through a parking lot to their car, she hears the voices of mobsters just a few feet away. Bolan leaves her for a moment, disappearing into the storm; she hears the phut-phut of his silenced handgun, and he returns to lead her past the bodies on the ground. Had this scene been presented from a third person perspective or Bolan's POV, it would have played out as countless other action scenes in the series. It shows Pendleton put thought into how to stage his action for best effect.
On the flip side, he introduces too many characters for a story this length. There's not enough real estate to develop them all, so they felt pretty interchangeable. There are 4 key mobster characters, two of which I kept having to flip back to refresh my memory ("Which one is this guy again?"). Length is also a problem when it comes to the story's climax, which felt forced and abrupt. All of the key characters are conveniently brought together (with no extraneous characters in the scene at all), resolving all plot lines in a matter of a few pages. Contrivances are a part of fiction and this might have worked had the ending not come so abruptly.
My final criticism concerns an odd plot moment about two-thirds of the way through. Up to that point, Pendleton had set Bolan up to take down "nine names" -- all major players in the corruption infecting the city of Chicago. Then suddenly, Bolan decides not to. It's not his fight. It's enough for him to kill the mobsters, and he'll let the people of Chicago deal with the corrupt politicians, businessmen, etc. Okay, fine. But why set it up then? Just felt like an odd story choice to telegraph a character goal and then take it away.
Other positives:
- The snowy winter setting was novel for the series, and personally, I love stories set in the snow.
- The life-threatening gunshot wound Bolan sustained in the previous book carries over into this book. It's nice that his health doesn't just reset like a video game character.
- Bolan uses Mission: Impossible style disguises to infiltrate the mobs, sow suspicion between rival factions, and start a mini mob war. It was fun to see him play different characters and have different kinds of interactions than he usually does.
Full disclosure, I think I'm getting a little burned out with this series. I should probably read something else as a palate cleanser before I dive into book #9...
Pendleton continues to get more ambitious with his writing -- to good and bad effect. First, the good. The action scenes are getting more creative. There's one particular scene in a blizzard that's told from the perspective of the woman Bolan is trying to save from the bad guys. For example, as he guides her seemingly blindly through a parking lot to their car, she hears the voices of mobsters just a few feet away. Bolan leaves her for a moment, disappearing into the storm; she hears the phut-phut of his silenced handgun, and he returns to lead her past the bodies on the ground. Had this scene been presented from a third person perspective or Bolan's POV, it would have played out as countless other action scenes in the series. It shows Pendleton put thought into how to stage his action for best effect.
On the flip side, he introduces too many characters for a story this length. There's not enough real estate to develop them all, so they felt pretty interchangeable. There are 4 key mobster characters, two of which I kept having to flip back to refresh my memory ("Which one is this guy again?"). Length is also a problem when it comes to the story's climax, which felt forced and abrupt. All of the key characters are conveniently brought together (with no extraneous characters in the scene at all), resolving all plot lines in a matter of a few pages. Contrivances are a part of fiction and this might have worked had the ending not come so abruptly.
My final criticism concerns an odd plot moment about two-thirds of the way through. Up to that point, Pendleton had set Bolan up to take down "nine names" -- all major players in the corruption infecting the city of Chicago. Then suddenly, Bolan decides not to. It's not his fight. It's enough for him to kill the mobsters, and he'll let the people of Chicago deal with the corrupt politicians, businessmen, etc. Okay, fine. But why set it up then? Just felt like an odd story choice to telegraph a character goal and then take it away.
Other positives:
- The snowy winter setting was novel for the series, and personally, I love stories set in the snow.
- The life-threatening gunshot wound Bolan sustained in the previous book carries over into this book. It's nice that his health doesn't just reset like a video game character.
- Bolan uses Mission: Impossible style disguises to infiltrate the mobs, sow suspicion between rival factions, and start a mini mob war. It was fun to see him play different characters and have different kinds of interactions than he usually does.
Full disclosure, I think I'm getting a little burned out with this series. I should probably read something else as a palate cleanser before I dive into book #9...
December 10, 2020
This book was quite a change from earlier Executioners. It is more of a chess match where Bolan tries maneuvering his pieces in place, which will allow the mafia to turn on itself. This means that we do not have a conclusion with Bolan going into a mafia compound armed with bazookas and machine guns blazing away.
However, while this book doesn’t have as much action as the previous one, it does have a typical, and exciting, action scene at the beginning. The book begins with Bolan in his sniper glory that we don’t really see enough of. He targets an underboss of the Chicago mafia. After the hit, Bolan discovers that the Chicago mafia is well prepared and they immediately counterattack. This changes the dynamics in the book as Pendleton has made the mafia a more capable enemy that are not easily taken down. This also helps improve the story as Pendleton must think of other ways for Bolan to destroy the mafia.
One other way that is presented is through a lawyer named Leopold Stein. Stein has been battling the mafia through legal means for many years. Bolan finds him a shell of a man who has lost every major battle and doesn’t have the heart to keep fighting. Stein presents the other side of the war on the mafia: the lawyers trying every legal trick they can to bring justice against the mafia. Even Bolan admires Stein and hopes that he can help Stein legally put away the mafia.
The later part of the book moves a lot slower as Bolan places the pieces on the board. This is the best part of the book as Bolan pretends to be different people and leaks rumors and innuendos among the mafia enforcers. It shows that Bolan can adapt his strategies as the Chicago mafia is too well entrenched to take on with guns and bazookas.
The body count in this book is lower than others, but once again has a satisfying ending. There is a theme that is mentioned in the book, which I imagine will be revisited in later books. Bolan realizes that the mafia is very well placed in society. There are bureaucrats and politicians that create the system that allows the mafia to exist. I imagine that Bolan is going to have to decide if he wants to take his war to these entities. Of course, Stein presents a slower alternate course through the legal system. I know which way Bolan will go, as the books would probably be boring going Stein’s approach. However, the option is before him and even Bolan must realize that a hot war against politicians will probably erase any sympathies he has built up in the previous books. This is another great outing in the series.
However, while this book doesn’t have as much action as the previous one, it does have a typical, and exciting, action scene at the beginning. The book begins with Bolan in his sniper glory that we don’t really see enough of. He targets an underboss of the Chicago mafia. After the hit, Bolan discovers that the Chicago mafia is well prepared and they immediately counterattack. This changes the dynamics in the book as Pendleton has made the mafia a more capable enemy that are not easily taken down. This also helps improve the story as Pendleton must think of other ways for Bolan to destroy the mafia.
One other way that is presented is through a lawyer named Leopold Stein. Stein has been battling the mafia through legal means for many years. Bolan finds him a shell of a man who has lost every major battle and doesn’t have the heart to keep fighting. Stein presents the other side of the war on the mafia: the lawyers trying every legal trick they can to bring justice against the mafia. Even Bolan admires Stein and hopes that he can help Stein legally put away the mafia.
The later part of the book moves a lot slower as Bolan places the pieces on the board. This is the best part of the book as Bolan pretends to be different people and leaks rumors and innuendos among the mafia enforcers. It shows that Bolan can adapt his strategies as the Chicago mafia is too well entrenched to take on with guns and bazookas.
The body count in this book is lower than others, but once again has a satisfying ending. There is a theme that is mentioned in the book, which I imagine will be revisited in later books. Bolan realizes that the mafia is very well placed in society. There are bureaucrats and politicians that create the system that allows the mafia to exist. I imagine that Bolan is going to have to decide if he wants to take his war to these entities. Of course, Stein presents a slower alternate course through the legal system. I know which way Bolan will go, as the books would probably be boring going Stein’s approach. However, the option is before him and even Bolan must realize that a hot war against politicians will probably erase any sympathies he has built up in the previous books. This is another great outing in the series.
May 5, 2024
The setting for this eighth Executioner novel could not be better: Chicago, a winter snowstorm, the whole book taking place over the course of one long night. The premise is fantastic, but author Don Pendleton seems to struggle to fill pages once the novelty of the idea gets into full swing.
Here, Mack Bolan, one man army, is planning a leisurely Mafia assassination, as you do, when an innocent Playboy Bunny analogue stumbles into his path. Unwilling to put her life in jeopardy (look, he's had a lot of suffering females in the last few months, okay?) he decides to shift tactics and go after all the Chicago bosses...at once...in one night...during a blizzard.
Hell of an opening for our action novel, eh? I know it got me excited, especially when it turns out his plan is to turn two large camps of Mafia goons against each other, playing a little Yojimbo on them.
The problem comes in that once this is established...it keeps being established. Over and over, we get repeated scenes of Bolan working up the paranoia of his enemies. This was neat, at first, because it showed the level of planning he exhibits, but soon felt like padding, especially when one key aspect of the plot, a list of nine names of Mafia-bigshots, is tossed away because there really wasn't enough wordcount left to dwell on it.
We also have too many villains to comfortably build up. Each one only gets a little book time, seemingly to the inverse of their importance, with the minor villains getting several scenes worth of content, the big bad guy only a couple of measly mentions.
The end is a decent bit of spectacle, with a shootout at the enemy country club that involves a lot of flying bullets. It's a touch rushed compared to the padding in the middle, but it left me feeling satisfied.
Even when Pendleton stumbles a little, he still manages to keep the tone in check and it's hard not to get excited as the stakes reach some impressive heights.
Here, Mack Bolan, one man army, is planning a leisurely Mafia assassination, as you do, when an innocent Playboy Bunny analogue stumbles into his path. Unwilling to put her life in jeopardy (look, he's had a lot of suffering females in the last few months, okay?) he decides to shift tactics and go after all the Chicago bosses...at once...in one night...during a blizzard.
Hell of an opening for our action novel, eh? I know it got me excited, especially when it turns out his plan is to turn two large camps of Mafia goons against each other, playing a little Yojimbo on them.
The problem comes in that once this is established...it keeps being established. Over and over, we get repeated scenes of Bolan working up the paranoia of his enemies. This was neat, at first, because it showed the level of planning he exhibits, but soon felt like padding, especially when one key aspect of the plot, a list of nine names of Mafia-bigshots, is tossed away because there really wasn't enough wordcount left to dwell on it.
We also have too many villains to comfortably build up. Each one only gets a little book time, seemingly to the inverse of their importance, with the minor villains getting several scenes worth of content, the big bad guy only a couple of measly mentions.
The end is a decent bit of spectacle, with a shootout at the enemy country club that involves a lot of flying bullets. It's a touch rushed compared to the padding in the middle, but it left me feeling satisfied.
Even when Pendleton stumbles a little, he still manages to keep the tone in check and it's hard not to get excited as the stakes reach some impressive heights.
November 20, 2020
3.5 Stars
Bolan takes his war to the Chicago Mafia, and to say he takes a bite out of crime is putting it mildly. Rather than just going in guns blazing he sets the various factions against each other and then picks the bones.
Good, but not quite as much action as usual as Bolan spends more time in disguises and setting traps. There's also a "Foxy Lady" involved, as I'm guessing due to copyright issues in the Mack Bolan Universe we have "Foxy Ladies" rather than "Playboy Bunnies."
As far as the overall book goes, you probably know what to expect from Mack Bolan and you get it here.
Bolan takes his war to the Chicago Mafia, and to say he takes a bite out of crime is putting it mildly. Rather than just going in guns blazing he sets the various factions against each other and then picks the bones.
Good, but not quite as much action as usual as Bolan spends more time in disguises and setting traps. There's also a "Foxy Lady" involved, as I'm guessing due to copyright issues in the Mack Bolan Universe we have "Foxy Ladies" rather than "Playboy Bunnies."
As far as the overall book goes, you probably know what to expect from Mack Bolan and you get it here.
February 2, 2025
Bolan comes to Chicago in a snowstorm and sets about wiping out the mafia there, but this time he decides to get the bad guys to do all the hard work. This was a different spin on the typical Executioner shoot-them-up adventure. This time, Bolan convinces the various mafia players that the other players have decided to take them out. Then he gets the cops—many of whom are on the take—involved in a way that forces them to come in and clean up the mess. It’s always nice to see a different strategy in these books.
August 31, 2025
I really enjoyed this book. Mack Bolan continues his one-man battle against the mafia with the aid of a mafia fighting lawyer. We continue to see Bolan’s evolution as a character which makes this series unique. I also see some evolution in Don Pendleton’s writing with less gratuitous violence and sex, which is different than earlier volumes in the series. I have to wonder why this never became a TV series or movie franchise. He’s essentially like the superhero character, but as a Vietnam sniper. I would certainly be a viewer of that movie/show if it was.
December 14, 2023
It's a Bolan-goes-undercover adventure, but suitably different from the ones that have gone before. Instead of flashing an ace of spades and pulling the wool over the eyes of hapless goon after hapless goon, there's some cunning to his plan and a little back and forth telephone game. And the blizzard simmering in the background brings an aspect of time-sensitive tension that even some of the best Executioner novels are missing.
October 28, 2019
An early Bolan story,
Those crazy mafia cats didn't know what to do when the
Executioner came t o town,
A hot chick, hot lead and Chicago was a hot zone
Retro adventure from the originator of the genre.
Those crazy mafia cats didn't know what to do when the
Executioner came t o town,
A hot chick, hot lead and Chicago was a hot zone
Retro adventure from the originator of the genre.
June 28, 2021
Chicago Wipe-Out is a quick action packed dismantling of the Chicago mafia in Bolan’s against all odds one man’s vendetta upon the Cosa Nostradamus. This was not as action packed as some of the fist 7 books in this series.
December 4, 2017
Not the best Bolan...
December 7, 2017
These things are a bit like crisps, you can't easily stop at just one.
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September 29, 2020
Escapism pure and simple. Surprised no one started making movies out f this franchise.
December 20, 2020
This one for me wasn't as action heavy as previous books in the series. Lots of inner monologs and talking.
October 29, 2021
Kind of slow for a Mack Bolan shoot-em-up. The next stop, Vegas, livens things up considerably.
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