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Mack Bolan the Executioner #177
Evil Code
A Burmese delegate to the United Nations is smuggling heroin into the U.S. via diplomatic pouches. The Feds attempt to pursue the matter through official channels, but Mack Bolan knows that red tape is a poor weapon against the world's distributors of death.
Bolan follows the pipeline to its source - Colonel Thaung, the sadistic head of defense intelligence, whose growing narcotics empire is set to unleash a massive flow of Burmese White onto the streets of America.
Thaung is a big player in a deadly game where the innocent get burned. But the forces of good hold the strongest hand - and it's the Executioner's turn to deal.
Bolan follows the pipeline to its source - Colonel Thaung, the sadistic head of defense intelligence, whose growing narcotics empire is set to unleash a massive flow of Burmese White onto the streets of America.
Thaung is a big player in a deadly game where the innocent get burned. But the forces of good hold the strongest hand - and it's the Executioner's turn to deal.
220 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1993
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About the author
Don Pendleton
1,524 books190 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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December 1, 2018
I picked up this and a few other Executioner books for a few bucks. Figured it'd be worth re-familiarizing my self with the genre while I prepare to undertake a similar endeavor.
If you're familiar with the Mack Bolan men's adventure series, then the tropes are there. Insurmountable odds overcome by the unstoppable apex predator, The Executioner. Action was a-plenty, and we got to see some of the old school "Bolan posing as a Mafioso" stuff that was heavily prevalent during the original Don Pendleton run.
I'd initially docked two stars for the Yuzana character because she dropped her panties for Bolan within three minutes of meeting him (and he dove right in without any sort of protest, which strikes me as out of character for the Bolan on which I grew up), but one of those stars was regained through Colonel Thaung's characterization. With a minimal amount of words, Fieldhouse managed to create a sympathetic villain that was not evil for evil's sake.
All in all, it's not groundbreaking, either as a book in and of itself or as an example of the genre, but it gets the job done.
If you're familiar with the Mack Bolan men's adventure series, then the tropes are there. Insurmountable odds overcome by the unstoppable apex predator, The Executioner. Action was a-plenty, and we got to see some of the old school "Bolan posing as a Mafioso" stuff that was heavily prevalent during the original Don Pendleton run.
I'd initially docked two stars for the Yuzana character because she dropped her panties for Bolan within three minutes of meeting him (and he dove right in without any sort of protest, which strikes me as out of character for the Bolan on which I grew up), but one of those stars was regained through Colonel Thaung's characterization. With a minimal amount of words, Fieldhouse managed to create a sympathetic villain that was not evil for evil's sake.
All in all, it's not groundbreaking, either as a book in and of itself or as an example of the genre, but it gets the job done.
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