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Stony Man #92
Capital Offensive
STONY MAN. Dedicated to a seek-and-destroy mandate when presidential directive sends them into the heat of battle, the cyber and commando teams of Stony Man hit hard and fast to remove threats of global magnitude. Now a secret terrorist organization has hacked its way into defense satellites--opening a trapdoor to Hell...
CAPITAL OFFENSIVE
America stands virtually defenseless as global security is compromised and nations prepare for the final conflagration that will end civilization. Stony Man gets a lead on a rogue Argentinean general and his twisted vision of a scorched and reborn planet Earth, but tracking the technology and the masters of destruction is a race where seconds count...and the loser will be humanity itself.
- GenresAdventure
1 pages, Audio CD
First published December 1, 2007
About the author
Don Pendleton
1,529 books195 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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September 28, 2024
a little far fetched in so many ways and to James Bond like and ending to rushed
February 8, 2011
I like the Mack Bolan universe a lot. It's like an action movie in book form, with two books a month (one in the Executioner series, and either a Stony Man or a SuperBolan). However, with the number of writers and the speed of publication, there has to be the occasional dud.
This one wasn't exactly a dud, but it had a lot of plot holes.
Considering that the next books will have no comment on the events here, it seems a little hard to believe that there would be no fallout from the wars started between Russia and China, as wells as between Angola and South Africa. Literally, since it is implied that they went nuclear. (The villain, in an attempt to 'save' the world decides to start wars to wipe out the majority of the human race, which is silly, since he'll end up with an irradiated mess).
The brief bits with a different organization called Unity stealing enough weapons grade fissionable material to let them shoot a missile at Washington seemed tacked on for word-count purposes. It also could have used a better editor, since at one point they track bullets used to a batch sold to the Chilean army, then six pages later says that they were sold to Argentina. A good editor should have caught that.
Still, if you want a fun action adventure book, the Stony Man series fit the bill.
This one wasn't exactly a dud, but it had a lot of plot holes.
Considering that the next books will have no comment on the events here, it seems a little hard to believe that there would be no fallout from the wars started between Russia and China, as wells as between Angola and South Africa. Literally, since it is implied that they went nuclear. (The villain, in an attempt to 'save' the world decides to start wars to wipe out the majority of the human race, which is silly, since he'll end up with an irradiated mess).
The brief bits with a different organization called Unity stealing enough weapons grade fissionable material to let them shoot a missile at Washington seemed tacked on for word-count purposes. It also could have used a better editor, since at one point they track bullets used to a batch sold to the Chilean army, then six pages later says that they were sold to Argentina. A good editor should have caught that.
Still, if you want a fun action adventure book, the Stony Man series fit the bill.
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