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Mack Bolan the Executioner #105
Countdown to Chaos
Mack Bolan travels to Ireland in order to stop a terrorist plot to destroy U.S.-British relations
252 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1987
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About the author
Don Pendleton
1,521 books183 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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August 18, 2023
Irish terrorists are planning to wear American uniforms when pulling off a hit on civilians in a plan to strain British/American relations. Mack Bolan is assigned to put a stop to this.
The novel is a good one, with Bolan spending much of the novel in an undercover role as a new photographer while he tries to get a line on the bad guys. There's a lot of detail on Irish politics woven into the story, but this is necessary to the plot and done without slowing down the pace of the novel.
I have a feeling that this might have been an unsold spy novel that the author re-wrote into an Executioner tale. The good Mack Bolan books have strong plots and characters, but the plots are always structured around the combat scenes. This one is subtly different, feeling like a spy novel where the action scenes are fun but supplemental to the story. I hope that makes sense. In any case, it doesn't affect the quality of the novel. This is a good one, with notable action scenes including a battle involving a missile-equipped gyrocopter and a climax in which an injured and unarmed Bolan has to take on several heavily armed terrorists.
The novel is a good one, with Bolan spending much of the novel in an undercover role as a new photographer while he tries to get a line on the bad guys. There's a lot of detail on Irish politics woven into the story, but this is necessary to the plot and done without slowing down the pace of the novel.
I have a feeling that this might have been an unsold spy novel that the author re-wrote into an Executioner tale. The good Mack Bolan books have strong plots and characters, but the plots are always structured around the combat scenes. This one is subtly different, feeling like a spy novel where the action scenes are fun but supplemental to the story. I hope that makes sense. In any case, it doesn't affect the quality of the novel. This is a good one, with notable action scenes including a battle involving a missile-equipped gyrocopter and a climax in which an injured and unarmed Bolan has to take on several heavily armed terrorists.
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