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Super Bolan #84
Dark Truth
After a black ops mission goes horribly wrong, Mack Bolan, forced to wage war on faceless enemies who hide behind the protection of the American flag, must go up against a rogue operative, assassins and a sanitizing force of Area 51 blacksuits, in order to save America from destruction. Original.
352 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 1, 2002
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About the author
Don Pendleton
1,520 books190 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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October 17, 2022
This book starts out alright, putting Bolan into a bit of X-files territory with black helicopters and black ops in the Nevada desert near all the secret bases, plus a local well-armed UFO cult and a mysterious technology. Then it throws a biker gang and some mob enforcers into the mix.
But the second half of the book is disappointing. Despite the clear scale of the enemy(s) that Bolan is facing, he uses his call for reinforcements just to get a bag of more weaponry, then goes it alone with very little available recon or intel about who he is taking on or what forces they have. Then he spends far too much time just lurking where they can see him (and take him out with a single sniper shot, if they bothered to try). He also forgoes some chances to take down the main bad guy, is pretty callous to a helpful ally, and has a bit too much sixth-sense or intuition at play. Basically, he acts out of character, becoming too much of a superman instead of just a man with excellent soldiering skills. His biker enemies are a bit to drug-addled to be believed, and the Mafia gunmen are too fat and out of shape to believe as a typical "crew". Even with his superior skill, he takes them on much too casually.
And although it's not really a fault, this book has probably the most abrupt ending I've ever seen in the 60+ Mack Bolan books I've read.
But the second half of the book is disappointing. Despite the clear scale of the enemy(s) that Bolan is facing, he uses his call for reinforcements just to get a bag of more weaponry, then goes it alone with very little available recon or intel about who he is taking on or what forces they have. Then he spends far too much time just lurking where they can see him (and take him out with a single sniper shot, if they bothered to try). He also forgoes some chances to take down the main bad guy, is pretty callous to a helpful ally, and has a bit too much sixth-sense or intuition at play. Basically, he acts out of character, becoming too much of a superman instead of just a man with excellent soldiering skills. His biker enemies are a bit to drug-addled to be believed, and the Mafia gunmen are too fat and out of shape to believe as a typical "crew". Even with his superior skill, he takes them on much too casually.
And although it's not really a fault, this book has probably the most abrupt ending I've ever seen in the 60+ Mack Bolan books I've read.
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April 14, 2021
not happy when they go all Area 51 with Mack. the start took way to long.
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