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Mack Bolan the Executioner #284
Devil's Army
Mack Bolan joins the dirty war against terrorists bringing jihad to America. A Doomsday Army has unleashed an elaborate scheme to overtake military rule of the U.S. -- and The Executioner "RM" begins a long, bloody journey to stop them in The Doomsday Trilogy.
224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 1, 2002
About the author
Don Pendleton
1,533 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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May 27, 2025
I sometimes enjoy these old-fashioned super-violent books, but this one is just dumb.
North Koreans and Iraqis (this was written in the early 2000's, apparently while some people still believed Iraq had WMDs) are teaming up to do something in the US. The reason they're working together makes no sense and really doesn't work. At one point, a bunch of bad guys (the North Koreans) are killing the other bad guys (some jihadist Iraqis who were supposedly their partners in the plot) somewhere in NY, and Bolan is going in behind them, attacking both sets of guys. It's a very unsatisfying scene, and it goes on. The overall plot doesn't really make sense, except for kidnapping scientists and their families. The story should have followed that stuff.
The last 20 pages, Mack Bolan invades the bad guys' lair, and then it reads like other Executioner books I've enjoyed.
They're a lot like Rambo or John Wick when they're written well, and more like random pages of several comic books jammed together when they're written badly. The first 200 pages of this book were bad.
It's the first in a trilogy, and I kept reading in case I'd feel like getting the other two books. I'm not gonna.
North Koreans and Iraqis (this was written in the early 2000's, apparently while some people still believed Iraq had WMDs) are teaming up to do something in the US. The reason they're working together makes no sense and really doesn't work. At one point, a bunch of bad guys (the North Koreans) are killing the other bad guys (some jihadist Iraqis who were supposedly their partners in the plot) somewhere in NY, and Bolan is going in behind them, attacking both sets of guys. It's a very unsatisfying scene, and it goes on. The overall plot doesn't really make sense, except for kidnapping scientists and their families. The story should have followed that stuff.
The last 20 pages, Mack Bolan invades the bad guys' lair, and then it reads like other Executioner books I've enjoyed.
They're a lot like Rambo or John Wick when they're written well, and more like random pages of several comic books jammed together when they're written badly. The first 200 pages of this book were bad.
It's the first in a trilogy, and I kept reading in case I'd feel like getting the other two books. I'm not gonna.
October 28, 2021
a nice start to a trilogy. Alot of action probably over the top
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