Deep Treachery

Super Bolan #81

by Don Pendleton (Series Creator), Dan Schmidt (Contributor)

Mack Bolan embarks on a personal mission of vengeance, from Boston to the heart of the Sudan, against the men who are terrorizing American citizens for the sake of a maniacal plot to gain control of America. Original.

352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published November 1, 2001

About the author

Don 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

Reviews

[Tom · Rating 1 out of 5]

The first Super Bolan book to be published after 9/11, this book's cover blurb reads "American traitors finance a jihad on U.S. soil", which describes some of what goes on in this hodgepodge tome. I can't help but wonder if the original plot was altered to include the jihad aspect because it feels like there are two books competing for space in one story. I've complained about pacing early in the double-length Super Bolan series, but 81 installments into the series I would hope that the stable of ghost writers would have the 352-page pacing down to a science. So why is there a lengthy subplot where Bolan goes to Sudan to tangle with a warlord? Just to be able to put a crocodile on the spine of the book?

I would be interested to know how this train went off the rails, but, one way or another, it ended up in a wreck.

[Donald · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one was ok but not one of my favorites. The two villains were too over the top and it went too close to violate the Bolan rule that he would not kill cops to be honest

[David Hamilton · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not the best Bolan story I've read, but the production was interesting.

[Bradley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad for a shoot-shoot novel. I especially love the man-eating alligators. Hilarious. This one read rather like a Top Secret adventure novel. Lol, I think this series is growing on me. =)