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Super Bolan #68
Code of Conflict
Mack Bolan matches wits with Trevor Garth, the ruthless leader of the Minutemen, fanatical members of a Nevada militia, who have seized control of an old military cache of poisonous gas. Original.
352 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 1, 1999
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About the author
Don Pendleton
1,529 books194 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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July 8, 2019
Mack Bolan, The Executioner, was the flag ship of the Gold Eagle library. It was always my least favorite of the bunch. The extra large, double size, if you will, books were my least favorite. They were so cookie cutter, you rally didn't even need to read them. You could tell how everything was going to go. So when I decided to give Code Of Conflict a try. It was half-hearted. But then I saw it was written by David Robbins, one of my favorite authors, and I perked up a bit. This was damn good.
Bolan starts out following a top Libyan terrorist from a Nevada airport. Things take a turn for the worst when a old prospector comes across a bunch of lost chemical weapons from WWI. He sells them to a crazy millionaire who want's a second revolutionary war. He plans to kill thousands in order to do this. Bolan won't have it.
Like I said, David Robbins is a great author. He can take this sort of tired, over done material and mold it into something exiting. Which he did. One of the better Bolan's to come along.
Bolan starts out following a top Libyan terrorist from a Nevada airport. Things take a turn for the worst when a old prospector comes across a bunch of lost chemical weapons from WWI. He sells them to a crazy millionaire who want's a second revolutionary war. He plans to kill thousands in order to do this. Bolan won't have it.
Like I said, David Robbins is a great author. He can take this sort of tired, over done material and mold it into something exiting. Which he did. One of the better Bolan's to come along.
December 13, 2022
I think it's really interesting how the villains in this cross-decade series reflect the fears of the middle-class, American man from the time. We start with organized crime before sampling some Cold War Russians, tin pot despots, drug smugglers, and here in the late 90s we arrive at domestic terrorists. Just a couple of years later and the narrative on terrorism would have been shifted in a decidedly different direction, but in this book we get libertarian anarchists hell-bent on the destruction of the US through coercion.
Functionally speaking, the action is tightly written and the set pieces are well orchestrated. Robbins sure does like to use the onomatopoeia "spang" for bullet ricochets, which certainly has grown on me now.
Functionally speaking, the action is tightly written and the set pieces are well orchestrated. Robbins sure does like to use the onomatopoeia "spang" for bullet ricochets, which certainly has grown on me now.
September 19, 2015
My first Mack Bolan book. A good and quick read with lots of suspense and action for a cheap dollar.
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