Raw Fury

Mack Bolan the Executioner #383

by Phil Elmore, Don Pendleton (Series Creator)

When rebels take the students of a Malaysian private school hostage, tensions in the region threaten to explode. In a country filled with unrest and on the verge of civil war, peaceful negotiation is not an option. Mack Bolan is sent in to keep a lid on the uprising and to find a way to free the hostages. Bolan soon discovers that the kidnapping is driven by a powerful ethnic-cleansing group with a deadly political agenda.

With the clock ticking down to a mass genocide, Bolan's mission turns into a death trap. The hostage takers may be prepared to kill anyone who stands in their way, but the Executioner is ready to make the ultimate sacrifice while taking down any who attempt to stop him.

192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published September 17, 2010

About the author

Phil Elmore grew up reading his father's collection of "Mack Bolan" novels. As a teenager, he had no idea that he would one day ghost-write more than a dozen entries in Harlequin Enterprises' long-running "Executioner" series. Today, Phil publishes fiction and nonfiction on a variety of topics, through multiple outlets, including his own publishing company, Samurai Press.

A technical writer by trade, Phil Elmore is also the Senior Editor of League Entertainment, an Intellectual Property development company based in Florida.

Reviews

[Johnny Atomic · Rating 4 out of 5]

I just finished "Raw Fury" by Phil Elmore, and I really liked it.

To understand how amazing that is, you've got to know that if a month ago someone accused me of reading an Executioner novel I would have slapped them for insulting me. Stories about a comically macho, hyperactive, uber-patriot character so two dimensional you could slice an atom with it, never struck me as a great reading choice.

I'm sorry Mack. I just didn't understand. You were never supposed to be taken seriously. You were supposed to be FUN. Yes, big fun. All caps fun. And you are. At least when Phil Elmore takes the reigns.

Phil serves up big action fun, on the scale of Die Hard. This book opens on an action, continues to the action sequence before ending on a climactic action. And it never, ever gets boring. Seriously, I haven't seen an action movie this fun in years.

I didn't even know you could write a book that was continuous action and make it hold someones attention. But clearly it is possible. I have to say however, that I tried a few other Mack
Bolan stories by other authors and didn't get the same intensity I got from Elmore's piece. He is apparently unique within the genre for his "adrenaline shot to the heart" level of excitement.

It's not Tom Clancy, but neither is it meant to be. It is Disney World for violence and righteous fury. Don't try and politicize it, or psychoanalyze it. Just read it and have a blast.

I did.

[Lianne Burwell · Rating 2 out of 5]

A fairly standard Bolan outing. The racist leader of Myanmar's son has been taken hostage by persecuted minorities. If Bolan does not rescue the boy quickly, there will be violent ethnic cleansing. But are the people swearing revenge complicit in the kidnapping?

Bolan was his usual competent self, but his action at the very end of the book really wouldn't help matters much, and it knocked the overall quality of the book down a touch.

[Paul Berner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Are Fury

It was good reading from the beginning to the end. I enjoyed how the plot came together and how it ended.

[Claude Latour]

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