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Mack Bolan the Executioner #108
Time to Kill
Mack Bolan's soft probe into Soviet arms dealing soon exposes a much more sinister scheme. An elite force of Russian commandos has taken up secret residence in Scotland, bringing murder and intrigue to the quiet countryside.
In the ruins of a Highland castle, Bolan uncovers the lethal nest of Spetsnaz vipers, poised to strike at the heart of the British government. But not only is Britain's security at risk - NATO's darkest secrets are about to be revealed.
The Executioner has faced the Russians many times and walked away. But this time he's up against a killer squad. He's ready.
In the ruins of a Highland castle, Bolan uncovers the lethal nest of Spetsnaz vipers, poised to strike at the heart of the British government. But not only is Britain's security at risk - NATO's darkest secrets are about to be revealed.
The Executioner has faced the Russians many times and walked away. But this time he's up against a killer squad. He's ready.
251 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1987
33 people want to read
About the author
Don Pendleton
1,517 books188 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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November 3, 2020
Mack Bolan is kind of like James Bond...'kind of' is the key word.
Bolan takes on impossible tasks and leaves a trail of dead bodies behind him - but, it's okay because all of the dead are bad guys. The body count doesn't matter in that case. Bolan's motivation is somewhat confusing. He is fighting the fight nobody wants to fight. People the governments won't take on like terrorists, international drug smugglers, those damn Soviet Russians. He has some unresolved anger that drives him to kill boatloads of 'bad' guys, day after day. There is some patriotic ideology, some moral justification, and some machoism. But, to me, he just seems insane. Which makes for good reading. A world you would never find outside of a book.
Bolan is like Bond when the time comes to fight the 'big boss'. Both Bolan and Bond usually have to sneak onto a boat, or into a warehouse, or break into a super secure secret nuclear terrorist run bomb making plant...and they always complete the task in a death defying impossible way. Which makes for some good, dramatic, reading...although don't think too hard about the statistical chances of them actually completing their task, time after time, after time. Just sayin.
Personally, I like this adventure. I wouldn't tell most of my friends. It's like a dirty secret. Since the book is full of violence and out dated stereotypes, which many would find offensive in today's day. Like 80s action movies :)
Plenty of Mack Bolans on Amazon - https://www.amazon.ca/gp/search/ref=a... bolan&index=aps&camp=15121&creative=330641&linkCode=xm2&linkId=d3f3fddb8d6d0642427f4cb18c626029
Bolan takes on impossible tasks and leaves a trail of dead bodies behind him - but, it's okay because all of the dead are bad guys. The body count doesn't matter in that case. Bolan's motivation is somewhat confusing. He is fighting the fight nobody wants to fight. People the governments won't take on like terrorists, international drug smugglers, those damn Soviet Russians. He has some unresolved anger that drives him to kill boatloads of 'bad' guys, day after day. There is some patriotic ideology, some moral justification, and some machoism. But, to me, he just seems insane. Which makes for good reading. A world you would never find outside of a book.
Bolan is like Bond when the time comes to fight the 'big boss'. Both Bolan and Bond usually have to sneak onto a boat, or into a warehouse, or break into a super secure secret nuclear terrorist run bomb making plant...and they always complete the task in a death defying impossible way. Which makes for some good, dramatic, reading...although don't think too hard about the statistical chances of them actually completing their task, time after time, after time. Just sayin.
Personally, I like this adventure. I wouldn't tell most of my friends. It's like a dirty secret. Since the book is full of violence and out dated stereotypes, which many would find offensive in today's day. Like 80s action movies :)
Plenty of Mack Bolans on Amazon - https://www.amazon.ca/gp/search/ref=a... bolan&index=aps&camp=15121&creative=330641&linkCode=xm2&linkId=d3f3fddb8d6d0642427f4cb18c626029
April 15, 2024
A haunted Scottish castle in the Highlands. A hulking, fearsome brute that prowls the ruins. Add to this KGB and MI-5 activity and you have the perfect setting for the next Executioner adventure. Mike Newton has crafted a thrilling and entertaining Mack Bolan novel full of murder and intrigue.
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