Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site steinmetz.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!edison!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP (Davidsen) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Mack Bolan Message-ID: <680@steinmetz.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 10:08:03 EST Article-I.D.: steinmet.680 Posted: Tue Mar 11 10:08:03 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Mar-86 06:06:04 EST References: <81@cad.UUCP> Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.UUCP (Davidsen) Organization: GE CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 41 Summary: In article <81@cad.UUCP> vallath@cad.UUCP (Vallath Nandakumar) writes: > > Does anybody know who writes Mack Bolan books? >Any opinion aboout them would also be welcome. >Apparently it is some genre of thriller or mystery. ... >vallath@esvax.berkeley.edu >ucbvax!esvax!vallath The series is the "executioner" books, and there were several names used as author, although all of the early (and in my opinion best) were by the same author. The name was Don Pendleton, although I have been told that it's a house name. The premise is that Mack Bolan comes home from Vietnam, gets pissed off at the mafia for murdering his parents, terrorizing his brother, and selling his sister into white slavery. He single-handedly attacks the mob and wins. oops... I've given away the plot. Of the whole series. Actually I bought the series until he decided to switch to terrorists, although the mafia showed amazing recuperative powers to last through 40 volumes of utter defeat. He was doing a city per book, but toward the end, as a friend put it, he was "riding through New Jersey, bombing pizza parlors and shooting anyone who's name ended in a vowel". I liked the books, if you like well written action, buy them, starting with #1. Don Pendleton seems to know quite a bit about guns, and the lack of major technical errors made the whole thing much better for me, although there was more technical detail than was needed in some places. People who are offended by crime, sex, or senseless violence may find these books a bit much. What can I say, I bought the first 40. -- -bill davidsen seismo!rochester!steinmetz!--\ / \ ihnp4! unirot ------------->---> crdos1!davidsen \ / chinet! ---------------------/ (davidsen@ge-crd.ARPA) "It seemed like a good idea at the time..."