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Mack Bolan the Executioner #405
Lethal Diversion
HIDE AND SEEKTerrorists have hidden a massive bomb in Detroit, but the White House and local police have no idea when and where it's going to go off. One thing is certain, thousands will die in the explosion unless Mack Bolan can intercept the device before time runs out.As each lead results in more dead bodies but surprisingly little intel, Bolan is convinced that this is a well-planned venture and that he and the police are mere pawns in the mastermind's scheme. But that's about to change. Tired of being led on a wild-goose chase and with the clock counting down, the Executioner is shifting the rules of the game–the hunter is about to become the hunted.
192 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 2012
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About the author
Don Pendleton
1,521 books183 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 22, 2021
A fluffy action story, with explosions and bad guys.
This has religious terrorists, bent on getting revenge by blowing up things with nukes, like one might expect. It's a stereotype that I don't feel I need buttressed. It's also got a lady in charge who totally fails, which is lame, as she's the only one in the whole book.
Anyway, otherwise I suppose it's perfectly readable action fluff. Bad guys get caught in the nick of time. Good pacing.
This has religious terrorists, bent on getting revenge by blowing up things with nukes, like one might expect. It's a stereotype that I don't feel I need buttressed. It's also got a lady in charge who totally fails, which is lame, as she's the only one in the whole book.
Anyway, otherwise I suppose it's perfectly readable action fluff. Bad guys get caught in the nick of time. Good pacing.
March 10, 2014
I've read quite a few (as in, "probably way too many") of the books in this series, and I thought that this was a pretty good example of the genre. The villain was good, the "evil plot" was nicely conceived, and the good guys neither figured everything out prematurely nor blatantly ignored important clues in order to keep the plot moving.
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