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Mack Bolan the Executioner #84
Fastburn
Word from the sewer says that Bolan's sworn enemy, Greb Strakhov, is about to surface in Peking. Rumor links his presence there with a deadly new bacteria.
The deathmongers face off in an ancient land: Russian Intelligence, Chinese Intelligence and The Executioner. Each wants the invisible death, at any price. But will the ultimate, terrible fireball kill everyone - including Mack Bolan?
The deathmongers face off in an ancient land: Russian Intelligence, Chinese Intelligence and The Executioner. Each wants the invisible death, at any price. But will the ultimate, terrible fireball kill everyone - including Mack Bolan?
186 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1985
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About the author
Don Pendleton
1,525 books192 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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April 29, 2024
3.5 stars
In my review of the previous Executioner novel, I claimed I wanted Bolan to stop with his mafia blitzkrieg and take on despotic terrorists. Well, thankfully, that does happen in ?Fastburn.
Feeling more along the lines of a Clive Cussler novel, this one deposits Mack Bolan in the middle of China, racing against the Chinese and the ever present Russians to stop the acquisition of an old WW2 bioengineered virus, capable of destroying both the Soviet Union and America alike. There’s a lot to like here. James Lord doesn’t mess around with a lot of Bolan’s self-congratulatory inner monologue and instead throws us right into the action. There’s a good mix of characters. The climactic final act is a lot of fun. And this one feels a lot more like a decently budgeted testosterone fueled film from the era.
The problem though is that while Lord can write a fast paced story, he jumps around so many times with various plots and bad guys with similar names and details that things get confusing. The location of the ice caves of Harbin also left me lost more than once as each new area felt similar to the last.
This was a nice break from the mafia wars but I’m still waiting for another straight up banger like Crude Kill and Savannah Swingsaw.
In my review of the previous Executioner novel, I claimed I wanted Bolan to stop with his mafia blitzkrieg and take on despotic terrorists. Well, thankfully, that does happen in ?Fastburn.
Feeling more along the lines of a Clive Cussler novel, this one deposits Mack Bolan in the middle of China, racing against the Chinese and the ever present Russians to stop the acquisition of an old WW2 bioengineered virus, capable of destroying both the Soviet Union and America alike. There’s a lot to like here. James Lord doesn’t mess around with a lot of Bolan’s self-congratulatory inner monologue and instead throws us right into the action. There’s a good mix of characters. The climactic final act is a lot of fun. And this one feels a lot more like a decently budgeted testosterone fueled film from the era.
The problem though is that while Lord can write a fast paced story, he jumps around so many times with various plots and bad guys with similar names and details that things get confusing. The location of the ice caves of Harbin also left me lost more than once as each new area felt similar to the last.
This was a nice break from the mafia wars but I’m still waiting for another straight up banger like Crude Kill and Savannah Swingsaw.
December 9, 2022
Bolan, some Chinese, of course, Russians and a few others are looking for an ice cave full of deadly germ warfare bacteria from WW2. They all meet up in said cave and go at it.
I've said it before. I'll say it again. These books have pretty much fell into a pattern that keeps repeating. Kind of like playing Scrabble. Just mix up the words here and there so the board looks different but the same.
I've said it before. I'll say it again. These books have pretty much fell into a pattern that keeps repeating. Kind of like playing Scrabble. Just mix up the words here and there so the board looks different but the same.
December 5, 2023
Mack Bolan in this book is nothing more than a spy who relies on coincidence to ad advance the plot.
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