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Mack Bolan the Executioner #69
Skysweeper
Lasers! The word holds a promise for peace in the world. And the U.S. is twenty years ahead of its nearest rival in the latest use of the device.
But the secret of this technology lies in the tangled psyche of a former POW, brainwashed years before and let loose on an unsuspecting America. And the Russians hold the key. Mack Bolan is frighteningly familiar with the mind-control techniques used on prisoners in Vietnam.
The specter of that bloody war haunts The Executioners current mission as a trail of treachery leads him to discover an attempt on the Presidents life and a world-threatening plot masterminded by Bolans deadliest enemy.
Strakhov returns.
But the secret of this technology lies in the tangled psyche of a former POW, brainwashed years before and let loose on an unsuspecting America. And the Russians hold the key. Mack Bolan is frighteningly familiar with the mind-control techniques used on prisoners in Vietnam.
The specter of that bloody war haunts The Executioners current mission as a trail of treachery leads him to discover an attempt on the Presidents life and a world-threatening plot masterminded by Bolans deadliest enemy.
Strakhov returns.
184 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1984
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About the author
Don Pendleton
1,519 books189 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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January 16, 2024
Lasers, deadly KGB agents, brainwashed Vietnam POWs and Mack Bolan thrown in the mix trying to sort it all out! The Executioner goes freelance in an effort to take down a deadly Russian plot.
December 6, 2020
This book falls more into the hard-boiled, noir side of things than the average military action Executioner. Lots of intrigue and dead-ends. With your expected gun play and karate chops to the kidney.
It seems that the US has advanced laser technology far beyond the Soviets, or anyone else for that matter. The KGB want to steal it. They have a plant in the program that was hypnotized back in Vietnam. They give him the post hypnotic suggestion, and he gives them the plans. That's what they have in mind. With The Executioner around, though, plans seem to change. Very good change of pace for this series.
It seems that the US has advanced laser technology far beyond the Soviets, or anyone else for that matter. The KGB want to steal it. They have a plant in the program that was hypnotized back in Vietnam. They give him the post hypnotic suggestion, and he gives them the plans. That's what they have in mind. With The Executioner around, though, plans seem to change. Very good change of pace for this series.
November 19, 2023
Skysweeper plays off the Cold War fears and very obviously attempts to parrot the fascination with Reagan’s Star Wars laser program, though it’s far more exciting than the reality of the mid 80s failed idea of keeping space safe as this one wraps conspiracy theories and mind control into the plot.
It’s typical Bolan fare, which isnt a bad thing, but it really doesn’t present anything entirely new or groundbreaking. While this was nowhere near as exciting as the action packed Crude Kill which was Cunnjngham’s last endeavor with Mack Bolan, Skysweeper is still another decent entry into a series that always has the risk of failing pretty hard with this many entries.
It’s typical Bolan fare, which isnt a bad thing, but it really doesn’t present anything entirely new or groundbreaking. While this was nowhere near as exciting as the action packed Crude Kill which was Cunnjngham’s last endeavor with Mack Bolan, Skysweeper is still another decent entry into a series that always has the risk of failing pretty hard with this many entries.
October 2, 2021
Oh! The impotent rage, fury & frustration!!! Stakhov got away again!
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