The Hellbomb Flight

The Penetrator #10

by Lionel Derrick, Chet Cunningham

Deep in the bowels of an abandoned mountain mineshaft, smack in the middle of the harsh Nevada desert, Dr. Orlando Fitzmueller has installed his computer base. The idea had first come to him when he was second in command at NASA. Then it as an impossible dream. But now, through careful planning, and sheer brilliance, it will become a reality. And he will win. Then in a few precious hours, he will be the single most powerful man the universe has ever known. He will hold life and death over 150 million people! For Mark Hardin (a.k.a. The Penetrator), it begins slowly. Just check into a scientist who is an expert in satellite tracking. All the Penetrator's instincts tells him there is much more to it than a routine gumshoe job. He's right. Suddenly, he's up to his armpits in Mafia thugs and hot on the trail of the most bizarre hijacking caper ever. Time is running out. If the terms aren't met, the result will a nuclear nightmare. The exciting 10th novel in The Penetrator Series.

121 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 25, 2016

About the author

Lionel Derrick is the house name, or pseudonym, for Mark K. Roberts and Chet Cummingham while writing the Penetrator series for Pinnacle Books. Roberts wrote the odd books and Cummingham the even ones.

Reviews

[Wayne · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Penetrator with a twist. This time around, the bad guy is out for world peace. He was once the second in command of NASA. Now he is hiding in a cave with a small group that are trying to intercept a Soviet satellite that carries weapons that could destroy the world. Unbeknownst to him, he has a mafia hit man in his ranks that sees the monetary value instead.

Meanwhile The Penetrator is tricked into action when he thought he would bow out of his vigilante lifestyle. He is just supposed to check on a couple scientist to find out which one is doing all this satellite tracking, and gets knee deep in it again. He doesn't want an atomic holocaust on his hands, so, he penetrates once again.

Not a bad book in the series. Just the end is a little bit of a let down. This series has a mold that it sort of broke with the villain this time around. Most want money and death and all manner of vile things. The mad doctor here only wanted the super powers to disarm. Still a good book/series.

[Mikepottz · Rating 4 out of 5]

The penetrator wanted to take a year old vacation from all the death and destruction he had caused. He could sniff out the enemy with his sensitive smell. A double crosser gets a bullet in his kneecap, bone, cartilage and blood splatter across the room. He puts dynamite down a mafia guys pants, the leg ripped off, leaning against the tree, the shoe still intact like it wanted to go for a walk. A scientist has captured a soviet satellite able to send a potential virus which would destroy all life on earth for a 1000 years. No vacation for the penetrator who saves the world again.

[Roger · Rating 4 out of 5]

An entertaining series of 10 stories, would recommend consideration.

[Little Timmy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another men's adventure series from the 70's. Pretty much standard action, violence and sex. However a good standout is that the hero is healed and trained by an old Cheyenne Indian in the ancient mystic warrior ways of the Cheyenne. Recommended