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Mack Bolan the Executioner #71
Blood Dues
Rumors and rumbles of a Cuban exile connection with the Mafia crime machine in Miami have come to Bolans ears.
The Executioner enters an old battleground, only to find hordes of Cuban outcasts crowding the city center, and the teeming core of Miami pulsing to a new Latin death song.
Grim specters and faithful friends of a former life weave a deja vu tapestry as Bolan hits both the Mob and an exile splinter movement.
Clouds of terror hang low over Americas southern ocean playground. The rumbles are turning to thunder. Unless Bolan can stop the Havana hurricane, Miami and its beaches will be awash in blood!
The Executioner enters an old battleground, only to find hordes of Cuban outcasts crowding the city center, and the teeming core of Miami pulsing to a new Latin death song.
Grim specters and faithful friends of a former life weave a deja vu tapestry as Bolan hits both the Mob and an exile splinter movement.
Clouds of terror hang low over Americas southern ocean playground. The rumbles are turning to thunder. Unless Bolan can stop the Havana hurricane, Miami and its beaches will be awash in blood!
186 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1984
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About the author
Don Pendleton
1,520 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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December 9, 2023
Another solid, albeit predictable, entry into the Executioner collection.
Blood Dues is a mild return to form for Bolan and the continuing evolution of this series as the story circles back to Miami, revisits old characters from Bolan’s first war against the mafia, and even has the mafia itself playing its part as co-conspirators in a terrorist plot with exiled Cubans.
Mike Newton didn’t do anything different in regards to moving this series into new areas with this one, but sometimes familiarity isn’t a bad thing. Newton penned a plethora of these things and it’s easy to see why he was such a stalwart to Mack Bolan. He gets the idea and never tries to change this story into something it’s not.
Sure it can kind of get repetitive but you definitely know what you’re getting when you see he’s the one who’s authored the next Mack Bolan escapade.
Blood Dues is a mild return to form for Bolan and the continuing evolution of this series as the story circles back to Miami, revisits old characters from Bolan’s first war against the mafia, and even has the mafia itself playing its part as co-conspirators in a terrorist plot with exiled Cubans.
Mike Newton didn’t do anything different in regards to moving this series into new areas with this one, but sometimes familiarity isn’t a bad thing. Newton penned a plethora of these things and it’s easy to see why he was such a stalwart to Mack Bolan. He gets the idea and never tries to change this story into something it’s not.
Sure it can kind of get repetitive but you definitely know what you’re getting when you see he’s the one who’s authored the next Mack Bolan escapade.
December 10, 2020
A sort of average, over complicated book by one of the better Bolan writers, Mike Newton. The story centers on Cuban exiles dealing with the mob. An ex-homicide cop that is now a private eye mixes it up with the battle as well. There is a first in this series though. Bolan breaks out a convict from prison to help out. The story was a bit standard. Also. there was to much Boland dialogue like "Yeah" and "Right" at the end of almost every paragraph. Not the best.
December 3, 2023
A great Mack Bolan story and nothng better than seeing Mack Bolan shut down a money laundering operation. I also like how they include thescene from the front cover into the story
October 17, 2021
Bolan tangles with the mob again but it has a Cuban angle that leads back to (yes!) the KGB.
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