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Mack Bolan the Executioner #67
Beirut Payback
Mack Bolan searches for the deadly KGB agent, Greb Strakov, in Beirut and becomes caught up in the Lebanese civil war
186 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1984
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About the author
Don Pendleton
1,529 books194 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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Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews
May 5, 2026
Fast paced adventure. This time, Bolan is in Beirut, Lebanon, where you need a scorecard to keep up with all the fighting forces. He is there to take out a KGB leader who has shown up in the war torn region. Though he finds out that there is a more pressing matter, a plot to kill Lebanon's president. Also, he has a chance to take out all the leaders of the opposing factions facing the country, and that's a chance he has to take.
Recommended, this one is written by Stephen Mertz, who is almost always a good read.
Recommended, this one is written by Stephen Mertz, who is almost always a good read.
September 1, 2023
Not much to say here about Beirut Payback
that hasn’t already been said about the vast majority of the Golden Eagle Executioner novels.
It’s fast paced, fun, and has enough moments of explosions and violence to keep most fans reading, even after 67 stories that are all, for all intents and purposes, the same.
I guess what stands out here though is that from the wide cadre of authors that took over the mantle of writing, it’s Mertz who really seems to know that these books are supposed to be. He doesn’t waste time trying to justify anything or try to psychoanalyze Bolan or his actions. Just throws Bolan into the thick of it and lets him go ham on some bad guys.
I will say, despite the repetitive nature that this stretch of the books have had, it’s still far better to see old Mack the Bastard Bolan kicking terrorist ass than the boring mafia.
And the cover takes the ridiculousness to new heights too.
that hasn’t already been said about the vast majority of the Golden Eagle Executioner novels.
It’s fast paced, fun, and has enough moments of explosions and violence to keep most fans reading, even after 67 stories that are all, for all intents and purposes, the same.
I guess what stands out here though is that from the wide cadre of authors that took over the mantle of writing, it’s Mertz who really seems to know that these books are supposed to be. He doesn’t waste time trying to justify anything or try to psychoanalyze Bolan or his actions. Just throws Bolan into the thick of it and lets him go ham on some bad guys.
I will say, despite the repetitive nature that this stretch of the books have had, it’s still far better to see old Mack the Bastard Bolan kicking terrorist ass than the boring mafia.
And the cover takes the ridiculousness to new heights too.
December 2, 2022
It would not be fair, to Pendleton or Mertz, to compare this to the early Bolans so my review is based on the book as it stands.
Solid writing, lots of action. Writer draws reader in and keeps them there.
Solid writing, lots of action. Writer draws reader in and keeps them there.
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September 27, 2021
Is Strakhov dead?
April 27, 2017
I usually enjoy reading these books for quick exciting entertainment but I didn't like the author on this one. I couldn't get into his writing and just dragged through the book. It took forever to get through and I'm glad this one is done and over with so I can move on to something better. It had a good story idea, the author just didn't do so well telling the story.
July 25, 2012
For the type of book it is, the book was fun. Nothing big, nothing intelligent, just shooting and gruff talk.
October 24, 2013
great hero and terror hunting galore of enemy, shooting,and maiming explosions? great stuff.
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