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Super Bolan #122
The Judas Project
The cold war just the cold war just got got hot again…
The old Soviet Bloc espionage games have resumed on a covert and catastrophic new playing the U.S. financial markets. The enemy isn’t the Russian government, but long-dormant sleeper cells in America’s cities, planted by the KGB decades ago. Now a former Kremlin official has found the top-secret files and stolen the blueprint, ready to pocket and manipulate America’s resources. He has hijacked operation Black Judas, enlisted the KGB’s most lethal assassin to terminate operatives, and has begun reshaping a brilliant plot to steal billions of American dollars. But he didn’t plan on a beautiful Russian cop on a vengeance hunt, or an American warrior named Mack Bolan in deadly pursuit, gunning for blood and justice.
The old Soviet Bloc espionage games have resumed on a covert and catastrophic new playing the U.S. financial markets. The enemy isn’t the Russian government, but long-dormant sleeper cells in America’s cities, planted by the KGB decades ago. Now a former Kremlin official has found the top-secret files and stolen the blueprint, ready to pocket and manipulate America’s resources. He has hijacked operation Black Judas, enlisted the KGB’s most lethal assassin to terminate operatives, and has begun reshaping a brilliant plot to steal billions of American dollars. But he didn’t plan on a beautiful Russian cop on a vengeance hunt, or an American warrior named Mack Bolan in deadly pursuit, gunning for blood and justice.
312 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 9, 2007
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About the author
Don Pendleton
1,517 books188 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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August 6, 2018
This fast paced mystery still gave me plenty of time to think about it’s plot and the implications if it were true in our country.
November 6, 2025
a very complex story that was very satisfying and needed the ability to be thorough which Super Bolan allows one. Very good pace action through out
February 7, 2011
The Judas Project is an adrenaline jolting ride filled with questions about who is manipulating whom and who is ultimately set to come out on top. Mack Bolan is the primary character, as the book is a part of his long running series after all, but the other characters tend to fall into clichés and static. To this end, most of the Russians (the primary villains, of course) are ready to die for county, honor, and glory. However, the Americans, whether good or bad also tend to be clichés with a mercenary leader with a Southern drawl named Jake to an Asian-American computer whiz named Akira. However, having well rounded characters does not really matter as many are cut down almost as soon as being introduced. Primary, the only background a reader needs is about Bolan, his past as a soldier and the murder of his family. Some knowledge of the Cold War is necessary, but boils down to the arms race and spy games played by the United States and the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
The plot revolves around a power play by the shadowy Unit of the FSB, which was the former KGB. These men are attempting to set off the Black Judas initiative in order to cripple U.S. finances and turn the nation into a third world country over night. However, bringing their sleeper agents online hits a few snags as politically motivated enemies of the Unit within the FSB make their own moves to control Black Judas. The primary players at this point are Mischa Krushen for the Unit and assassin Viktor Kirov representing Karl Federov from the main FSB force. This is when the Stony Man agents in the U.S. catch wind of the plot and send out Mack Bolan, the famous Executioner and their top agent. To compound the situation even further, during his investigation, Bolan runs into Officer Natasha Tchenko, of the Moscow Police whose family was murdered by members of the Unit. Tchenko has gone rogue and is out for revenge due to her family's deaths and the cover up by the FSB. Bolan never knows who is who throughout the novel and ends up being a pawn and nuisance to all parties involved. However, his reputation as the Executioner is unknown to enemy and ally alike since he is posing as Justice Department Agent Matt Cooper. In order to quell the hotbed of international espionage, it takes all the resources of Bolan and the Stony Man Team to track the Russians and put a stop to the Black Judas agents.
The plot revolves around a power play by the shadowy Unit of the FSB, which was the former KGB. These men are attempting to set off the Black Judas initiative in order to cripple U.S. finances and turn the nation into a third world country over night. However, bringing their sleeper agents online hits a few snags as politically motivated enemies of the Unit within the FSB make their own moves to control Black Judas. The primary players at this point are Mischa Krushen for the Unit and assassin Viktor Kirov representing Karl Federov from the main FSB force. This is when the Stony Man agents in the U.S. catch wind of the plot and send out Mack Bolan, the famous Executioner and their top agent. To compound the situation even further, during his investigation, Bolan runs into Officer Natasha Tchenko, of the Moscow Police whose family was murdered by members of the Unit. Tchenko has gone rogue and is out for revenge due to her family's deaths and the cover up by the FSB. Bolan never knows who is who throughout the novel and ends up being a pawn and nuisance to all parties involved. However, his reputation as the Executioner is unknown to enemy and ally alike since he is posing as Justice Department Agent Matt Cooper. In order to quell the hotbed of international espionage, it takes all the resources of Bolan and the Stony Man Team to track the Russians and put a stop to the Black Judas agents.
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