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.
Someone gave me this book in the mid 2000's. It sat on my bookshelf for roughly a decade before I took it on a business trip with me. It was an entertaining read. However, much like Rambo and Chuck Norris among others, I do not know if Mack Bolan would be around for the full story in real life. Mack is unrealistically tough. However, I suppose he is supposed to be more or less a badass that can take anything. There are plenty of unrealistic spoilers I could mention. However, there are also realistic military things/applications mixed in with the unrealistic stuff. Long story short, like most action movies, the book is a fun experience but do not expect anything too elaborate from it.