Volatile Agent

Mack Bolan the Executioner #350

by Don Pendleton

Terminal Velocity

Mack Bolan undertakes a rapid-deployment rescue operation in West Africa, where a C.I.A. asset possessing crucial U.S. intelligence is trapped and dying. For years, the agent has played the counterintelligence game for profit. Now, holed up in a grimy hotel in the middle of a bloodbath, her last hope is making his way to her across the civil war-torn Ivory Coast.

Bolan's point of insertion is the center of hell, where monsoon rains and wholesale slaughter conspire to shorten his mission and his life. Warlords, mercenaries and local police collide in genocidal fury, leaving the Executioner little choice in his punishing assault. He cuts a swathe of fury and retribution to his target, prepared to die but never to quit.

192 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 12, 2007

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

[Bill Riggs · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mack struggles to stay alive trapped in a dirty hotel surrounded by clashing warlords, mercenaries and police. The city is a bloodbath on Africa’s war-torn Ivory Coast that Mack must escape and deliver CIA intelligence.
Continuous action and suspense are a hallmark of the Executioner series and this entry definitely delivers while also providing a story that shows Bolan is not infallible in facing overwhelming odds.

[Heath · Rating 3 out of 5]

Airplane reading for the flight back from Wisconsin. The story of an engagement in West Africa that could very well have been the underpinning of any bombing operation in Iraq. There's a slight voodoo-like tie in to boot. Ghost written by Nathan Meyer. A saltine for your brain!

[Steve Howells · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really a 4.5 but can't give 4.5. It was a great read. Mack Bolan was up against it for most of the book, crooked cops, mercenaries, water buffalo and the weather.

[Donald · Rating 5 out of 5]

great great story. The Executioner is put through hell in this fast paced action oriented story.