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Mack Bolan the Executioner #255
War Bird
The K-1 Intercept Stealth fighter is the most technologically advanced plane ever built, and its designer and the blueprints have fallen into the hands of a fanatic with grandiose plans to turn the plane into a destructive tool of terrorism.
From his fortress in Bavaria, billionaire Edel Schleyer and his army of mercenaries are amassing a force and perfecting the super plane that will bring America to its knees.
In enemy terroritory Mack Bolan is spearheading a frontal assault that will send a personal message to Schleyer. The death jet isn't the ultimate weapon of war.
The Executioner earned that honor long ago.
From his fortress in Bavaria, billionaire Edel Schleyer and his army of mercenaries are amassing a force and perfecting the super plane that will bring America to its knees.
In enemy terroritory Mack Bolan is spearheading a frontal assault that will send a personal message to Schleyer. The death jet isn't the ultimate weapon of war.
The Executioner earned that honor long ago.
- GenresFiction
224 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2000
18 people want to read
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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January 26, 2026
Mack Bolan is sent to Germany to find and rescue a Czech scientist and the scientist's daughter. The scientist has designed an extremely advanced figher plane, but is now in the hands of a wealthy madman with delusions of godhood. He's being forced to build the plane in a secret underground fortress to save his daughter's life.
The madman also has a force of heavily armed mercenaries at his disposal. A traitor in the CIA gives Bolan's mission away, so Bolan finds himself in a succession of firefights from the moment he arrives in Germany. But, with the help of a beautiful German intelligence agent and (eventually) pilot Jack Grimaldi, Bolan whittles down the ranks of the bad guys.
It's a fun book--the plot is set up to justify the frequent action scenes, which ultimately leads up to an assault on a castle that includes a base for the mercenaries involving rocket launchers and a lot of grenades, then an attempt by the good guys to hijack the newly-completed fighter plane from the bad guys. Characterizations are well-handled, with additional tension generated when the commander of the mercenary force has issues with his clearly insane boss. Aside from a contrived reason to force the head mercenary and Bolan into a knife fight during the climax, the action scenes are handled well. It's a fun Executioner novel.
The madman also has a force of heavily armed mercenaries at his disposal. A traitor in the CIA gives Bolan's mission away, so Bolan finds himself in a succession of firefights from the moment he arrives in Germany. But, with the help of a beautiful German intelligence agent and (eventually) pilot Jack Grimaldi, Bolan whittles down the ranks of the bad guys.
It's a fun book--the plot is set up to justify the frequent action scenes, which ultimately leads up to an assault on a castle that includes a base for the mercenaries involving rocket launchers and a lot of grenades, then an attempt by the good guys to hijack the newly-completed fighter plane from the bad guys. Characterizations are well-handled, with additional tension generated when the commander of the mercenary force has issues with his clearly insane boss. Aside from a contrived reason to force the head mercenary and Bolan into a knife fight during the climax, the action scenes are handled well. It's a fun Executioner novel.
October 15, 2023
White hot shrapnel slicing and dicing its way through the baddies was awesome. I really liked the Jutta Kaufmann character.
On to the next mission (there's always one more!)
On to the next mission (there's always one more!)
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