What do you think?
Rate this book
Super Bolan #100
Devil's Bargain
Devil's Bargain by Don Pendleton released on Jan 11, 2005 is available now for purchase.
352 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
3 people are currently reading
32 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
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews
November 5, 2022
ok with action but was a little week and the kidnapping of Price was kinda just thrown in just because it sounded good
December 31, 2023
Mack's after some deep cover ops out to unleash armageddon, but it never seems too imminent. The franchise was running on fumes at this point.
July 22, 2014
For an event book (volume 100 of this series), Devil's Bargain was a serious disappointment. First we get a wave of violence unleashed on the US by sleeper agents whose strings are being pulled by a black ops team that faked their deaths and went undercover. Apparently they want to start wars to kill lots of people and give them a leg up in the world. Then they go out of their way to kidnap Stony Man director, Barbara Price (who is looking way too sulky on the cover, wearing a bikini top for some unknown reason). Then the attacks vanish from the plot, because it turns out that this group want to take a bunch of super-secret maney caches knows at The Bank of Islam. And Barbara? Well, they haul her around the world, apparently planning on forcing her to reveal the facts of the Stony Farm operation to create distractions from their own operations.
As you can guess, it is a muddled mess. I never did figure out how many people were in this Alpha Six group. Their puppets never made sense (let alone that they would be able to get around like this so soon after 9/11, which is referenced). The running battles that make up most of the second half of the book just didn't flow, so I couldn't tell who was where doing what. Having Barbara kidnapped made no sense, other than to lead Mack to someone who could send him off to the middle east after the bad guys. The two turncoat generals were repetative. And seriously, this outfit is claiming they created a main terrorist organization in the middle east by themselves? Yeah, right.
I do get the feeling that this was actually supposed to be two books, since there was a clear deliniation between the first half (trying to stop the umpteen suicide bombers in the US) and the second half (tracking the badguys trying to rob other badguys in the middle east). Maybe if it had been two books there would have been a chance to actually fill out the action and the plot to the point where it would have made more sense.
Definitely should not have been a milestone book. Very disappointing.
As you can guess, it is a muddled mess. I never did figure out how many people were in this Alpha Six group. Their puppets never made sense (let alone that they would be able to get around like this so soon after 9/11, which is referenced). The running battles that make up most of the second half of the book just didn't flow, so I couldn't tell who was where doing what. Having Barbara kidnapped made no sense, other than to lead Mack to someone who could send him off to the middle east after the bad guys. The two turncoat generals were repetative. And seriously, this outfit is claiming they created a main terrorist organization in the middle east by themselves? Yeah, right.
I do get the feeling that this was actually supposed to be two books, since there was a clear deliniation between the first half (trying to stop the umpteen suicide bombers in the US) and the second half (tracking the badguys trying to rob other badguys in the middle east). Maybe if it had been two books there would have been a chance to actually fill out the action and the plot to the point where it would have made more sense.
Definitely should not have been a milestone book. Very disappointing.
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews