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Coltray
176 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1990
About the author
David Alexander
55 books14 followersDavid Alexander began writing early in life and began writing uncoaxed and spontaneously. His fledgling appearance in print dates to a sonnet published in a New York City daily newspaper when David was in elementary school in Brooklyn. Between then and today, he has written and published in virtually every literary category, including novels, novelettes, short fiction, poetry, essays and film scripts. He received his early education via the New York City public school system. He later attended Columbia University in New York City and Sorbonne University in Paris, France.
In addition to fiction and creative nonfiction, Alexander has written technical papers as a defense analyst for some of the world's most prestigious international defense publications on high-technology combat systems and their strategic and tactical applications. He is as conversant with the global corporate and civilian defense sector as he is with the military side. Few can justly claim the scope and breadth of his knowledge of and familiarity with the international defense community, ranging from weapon systems to global strategic policy.
As an author, Alexander can justly claim to have pulled himself up by his own bootstraps. Never has he benefited from anybody's patronage. There have been no wealthy relatives with connections, no connections by marriage; no favors traded in secret, no hooked-up friends to fast-track his career. Nor has anybody but David Alexander penned the titles published over David Alexander's byline. Alexander is a resident of Brooklyn Heights, where he has lived and written for many years.
In addition to fiction and creative nonfiction, Alexander has written technical papers as a defense analyst for some of the world's most prestigious international defense publications on high-technology combat systems and their strategic and tactical applications. He is as conversant with the global corporate and civilian defense sector as he is with the military side. Few can justly claim the scope and breadth of his knowledge of and familiarity with the international defense community, ranging from weapon systems to global strategic policy.
As an author, Alexander can justly claim to have pulled himself up by his own bootstraps. Never has he benefited from anybody's patronage. There have been no wealthy relatives with connections, no connections by marriage; no favors traded in secret, no hooked-up friends to fast-track his career. Nor has anybody but David Alexander penned the titles published over David Alexander's byline. Alexander is a resident of Brooklyn Heights, where he has lived and written for many years.
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October 6, 2023
An Executioner clone but written by a Joseph Rosenberger devotee. Its ok, the action scenes are not written all that effectively but overall the story was fine. The characters are one dimensional which is fairly common for the genre though I enjoy Coltray's partner Streeter. Basically the storyline is that a drug lord kidnapped a DEA agent who happened to be buddies with Coltray aka the Lethalist...(I mean by this point I guess all the decent names have been taken). Well Coltray gets word and away he goes into Thailand, where the drug lord has his army, to get his buddy back. Also the CIA is working with the drug lord and he has to fight a lot of company guys as well.
Can't really recommend, I mean there are a ton of better Mens Adventure titles but its short and isn't a bad read.
Can't really recommend, I mean there are a ton of better Mens Adventure titles but its short and isn't a bad read.
June 14, 2026
Stosh Coltray, a man so lethal, they named him The Lethalist! If there's one thing Coltray HATES, its the goddam Triads pumping the streets of his beloved country Murica, full of dope and smack, injected into the veins of the people he fought to protect in Nam. If there's another thing Coltray hates, its when one of his Nam buddies gets kidnapped in The Golden Triangle region, by the very same connected Triads running dope into the US. Coltray won't stand for that. But the connections run deep into the US itself.
A violent (not as violent as some David Alexander works) nihilistic commentary on the disillusionment of Nam vets dealing with a world in which the Murican government (CIA) is directly selling the souls of american people to drug traffickers just to have a foothold in the region near Vietnam and China to fund a narco-army that'll help fight the scary Communists as long as they can keep the americans hooked on their China-white.
David Alexander seemed to be wrestling with that fact, watching Ollie North go on trial for doing the same exact shit, finding no sense of justice as our own government sold us out for profit in a false war on drugs, war on Communism, war on whatever created the most profits at the expense of whoever. He boils it down into a simple angry story, getting his revenge on the spooks that helped add to the destruction of our country, writing them as villains as bad as the Triads themselves.
A violent (not as violent as some David Alexander works) nihilistic commentary on the disillusionment of Nam vets dealing with a world in which the Murican government (CIA) is directly selling the souls of american people to drug traffickers just to have a foothold in the region near Vietnam and China to fund a narco-army that'll help fight the scary Communists as long as they can keep the americans hooked on their China-white.
David Alexander seemed to be wrestling with that fact, watching Ollie North go on trial for doing the same exact shit, finding no sense of justice as our own government sold us out for profit in a false war on drugs, war on Communism, war on whatever created the most profits at the expense of whoever. He boils it down into a simple angry story, getting his revenge on the spooks that helped add to the destruction of our country, writing them as villains as bad as the Triads themselves.
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