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Mack Bolan the Executioner #86
Hell's Gate
Enemy bullets have left Mack Bolan seriously wounded. Weak from blood loss and with a fever approaching danger point, he has to keep running without medical aid.
Faceless gunners relentlessly pursue the Executioner across the U.S. border into Canada. Bolan is caught in a deadly trap: stop and be cornered, or die from his injuries.
Faceless gunners relentlessly pursue the Executioner across the U.S. border into Canada. Bolan is caught in a deadly trap: stop and be cornered, or die from his injuries.
- GenresFiction
187 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1986
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About the author
Don Pendleton
1,517 books188 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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May 24, 2024
3.5 stars
Neither amazing nor terrible, but fully readable and moderately enjoyable, Hell’s Gate finds Mack Bolan gravely injured and stuck in Canada while awaiting a visit with his brother, Johnny. Since this is an Executioner novel, it’s not long before Bolan is quickly involved in a mafia plot involving guns, porn, and overall shady dealings. Together with his brother, a prostitute, and a pornstar, the group bands together to take down yet another mafia stronghold and further advance Bolan’s vengeance upon La costa Nostra.
Hell’s Gate is nowhere near the pinnacle of great literature, hell, it’s not even near the peak of great Executioner books, but, like I said, it is still a fun book. Tom Arnett puts a bit more plot and story into this one, relying a bit more on drama and intrigue to keep the story moving, rather than the usual spats of violence these books are known for. Not that there isn’t some great moments of gunfights and bloodshed…there’s actually some newer elements added this time around. Plus, the idea of Bolan finally being fallible and having to rely on others to do things is a nice touch, giving a tiny amount of humanity to the man from Blood.
Neither amazing nor terrible, but fully readable and moderately enjoyable, Hell’s Gate finds Mack Bolan gravely injured and stuck in Canada while awaiting a visit with his brother, Johnny. Since this is an Executioner novel, it’s not long before Bolan is quickly involved in a mafia plot involving guns, porn, and overall shady dealings. Together with his brother, a prostitute, and a pornstar, the group bands together to take down yet another mafia stronghold and further advance Bolan’s vengeance upon La costa Nostra.
Hell’s Gate is nowhere near the pinnacle of great literature, hell, it’s not even near the peak of great Executioner books, but, like I said, it is still a fun book. Tom Arnett puts a bit more plot and story into this one, relying a bit more on drama and intrigue to keep the story moving, rather than the usual spats of violence these books are known for. Not that there isn’t some great moments of gunfights and bloodshed…there’s actually some newer elements added this time around. Plus, the idea of Bolan finally being fallible and having to rely on others to do things is a nice touch, giving a tiny amount of humanity to the man from Blood.
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