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In beautiful Hawaii, the Executioner opens a volcanic war in the Pacific Mack Bolan stands at the lip of Puowaina, the Hawaiian war cemetery, and pays tribute to the friends he lost in Vietnam. Since he left the jungle, this crack sniper has been fighting a different war-an endless battle against organized crime that he knows will someday end in his death. He is in Hawaii on a mission, and that mission is murder. He starts by firing a series of sniper rounds into the palatial apartment of show more the Hawaiian heroin king. As Bolan watches the local mob try to pick up the pieces, he begins hearing ru show lessTags
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This review is written with a GPL 3.0 license and the rights contained therein shall supersede all TOS by any and all websites in regards to copying and sharing without proper authorization and permissions. Crossposted at Bookstooge.booklikes.blogspot.wordpress.leafmarks.com by express permission of this reviewer Title: Hawaiian Hellground Series: The Executioner Author: Don Pendleton Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars Genre: Thriller Pages: 142 Synopsis: Mack ends up in Hawaii chasing down a Mafia lead, only to discover a MUCH bigger game that involves the Chinese and nuclear warheads capable of reaching the West Coast. Things are big enough that he teams up with a shadow ops group put together by Brognola. My Thoughts: I enjoyed show more this a bit more than some of the previous mainly because just instead of the Mafia we also get the PRC Military involved. Given, he's a rogue, but introducing a different element into the familiar story is like adding a pinch of spice into a yummy yet familiar recipe. Seeing the Shadow Ops team in action was pretty cool too. A "modern" [remember, these were written in the 70's and 80's] take on the 4 man hit squads from Vietnam. Capable killers with the intelligence to gather intel and make use of it independent of Authorized Authority. Finally, Bolan is let off the hook by Brognola. Sets things up for Brognola to keep trying to bring Bolan into the fold. A sanctioned assassin for the United States. " show less
The Mafia join forces with the Chinese to exterminate the Executioner and if the book did not have a Chinese element I would exterminate it – a dated example of a gung ho America is right book.
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Don Pendleton was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on December 12, 1927. During World War II, on December 7, 1942, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy, serving as a Radioman First Class until November of 1947. He served in all the war theaters, receiving various medals. He received his GED while in the Navy. In 1952, in the midst of the Korean conflict, he show more returned to active service for two years. He was employed as a telegrapher for Southern Pacific Railroad until 1957. For the next four years, he worked for the CAA/FAA as an air traffic control specialist. In 1961, his career turned toward aerospace engineering where he served in management positions during Martin-Marietta's Titan ICBM programs, as an engineering administrator in NASA's Apollo Moonshot program, and with the United States Air Force C-5 Galaxy program. He began writing in 1957 and his first short story was published that year, followed by a first novel in 1961. He became a full-time author in 1967. After producing a number of short stories, westerns, science fiction and mystery novels, in 1969, he launched the Executioner series. The first Executioner novel, War Against the Mafia, was followed by an additional 37 books during the ensuing 12 years. In 1980, he franchised his Executioner characters to Harlequin's Worldwide Library of Toronto, Gold Eagle Imprint. Until his death, he served as Consulting Editor on the Gold Eagle Program, although was not directly responsible for any of the Mack Bolan novels written since 1981. Their team of writers have produced close to 400 novels based on Pendleton's original works and use his names as a house pseudonym. He also published six books about a psychic detective named Ashton Ford and six books about a private detective named Joe Copp. In 1990, he turned to nonfiction with the publication of To Dance with Angels, written with his wife, Linda Pendleton. His nonfiction books include three manuscripts published posthumously as ebooks: A Search for Meaning from the Surface of a Small Planet, The Metaphysics of the Novel: The Inner Workings of a Novel and a Novelist, and Whispers from the Soul: The Divine Dance of Consciousness. A Search for Meaning from the Surface of a Small Planet won the Independent Ebooks Award for the Best of Nonfiction in 2002. In 1992, he received the Lifetime Achievement Gem Award presented by Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. He died of a heart attack on October 23, 1995 at the age of 67. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Hawaiian Hellground
- Original publication date
- 1975
- Important places
- Hawai'i, USA
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- English
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