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Mack Bolan the Executioner #150
Death Load
Thailand's border explodes with violent conflict. Ruthless Khmer Rouge guerrillas are herding hundreds of refugees to be marched to Kampuchea and used as slaves... or worse. Now, however, the guerrillas have gone too far. A State Department agent has been snatched, spirited away into a jungle network of fear and brutality, where death seems a welcome escape.
Mack Bolan returns to a hellzone he knows well, launching a desperate mission to crush a secret army and rescue a kidnapped spy.
As a young soldier in Asian lands, the Executioner got his name. He was also known as Sergeant Mercy. There will be no mercy now.
Mack Bolan returns to a hellzone he knows well, launching a desperate mission to crush a secret army and rescue a kidnapped spy.
As a young soldier in Asian lands, the Executioner got his name. He was also known as Sergeant Mercy. There will be no mercy now.
224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 1, 1991
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About the author
Don Pendleton
1,521 books190 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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August 4, 2018
Great book. My first Mack Bolan/Executioner novel and I loved it. I have been to Cambodia many times, so to see a book set during the Khmer Rouge atrocities is really cool and connections to the things and places I have seen and visited was even cooler. Great pulp/trash fiction, easy little read. This was added to my gym readers (cardio/elliptical reading books) and I wanted to work out longer to read more. Gotta find more Bolan books now!
December 17, 2021
More action. More jungle. More jungle camp destruction. More Bolan.
After 150 books, titles get looser, maybe there’s less action word juxtapositions left, but I couldn’t quite work out what the Death Load was. Maybe the powder in Bolans M-16 ammo..
Still, classic action paperback greatness.
After 150 books, titles get looser, maybe there’s less action word juxtapositions left, but I couldn’t quite work out what the Death Load was. Maybe the powder in Bolans M-16 ammo..
Still, classic action paperback greatness.
February 6, 2013
I have a near complete collection of these. I started reading them when I was about eighteen or so. Back then I read them for the adventure. The original series was against the Mafia and seemed romantic at the same time as being deadly and full of action. Today, they're popcorn reading, when I want to read something light (hah, guns, bombs = lite!).
This book has Mack Bolan back in Cambodia to rescue a captured UN official. If this book were written today it would be difficult to get it published. Rooted deep in the leftovers from the various Asian wars, its a very Umurricun story. The ending isn't really an ending because it just ends, with lots of loose bits around.
But I still like them.
This book has Mack Bolan back in Cambodia to rescue a captured UN official. If this book were written today it would be difficult to get it published. Rooted deep in the leftovers from the various Asian wars, its a very Umurricun story. The ending isn't really an ending because it just ends, with lots of loose bits around.
But I still like them.
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