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Once a Vietnam military hero, crack sniper Mack Bolan is now a vigilante, driven by the death of his Massachusetts family to exact vengeance on the mob. Waging war on the West Coast, the Executioner amassed a ten-man army as backup. Seven are now dead. Two are in jail. Only Bolan remains. With a bounty on his head, and every cop in Los Angeles on his tail, Bolan decides to erase his greatest liability: his face. Under the knife of a former army surgeon, Bolan is transformed. With trademark show more cunning, he infiltrates the Sicilian syndicate that butchered his friends. In cozying up to the boss's daughter, Bolan's plan of revenge has never been so intimate. The Executioner may have a new look, but he's got the same attitude. Soon his fury is going explode, and strike terror in the very heart of the Mafiosi. show lessTags
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Pendleton's Executioner series continues here in its third volume. If
you haven't read the first two volumes, I would suggest you do so as
they give you the full background of Mack Bolan and why he returned
from service in Vietnam to conduct a private war against the Mafia.
The biggest question I had before picking up Battle Mask was where
Pendleton could go with the story considering how guns-blazing filled
with action the first two books were. Question answered. This book is
just as bloody and filled with action as the first two. Most importantly,
Men's action story or not, Pendleton is an excellent storyteller. It is
easy, quick reading and so action-packed it is really hard to put down.
Battle Mask once again finds Bolan on his own show more against overwhelming
odds. It's a story about the miracles of plastic surgery and fake
identities and Bolan getting the upper hand against his enemies. The
plastic surgery bit is of course similar to Richard Stark's Man With the
Getaway Face.
In any event, Read every page. The Executioner series is that good. show less
you haven't read the first two volumes, I would suggest you do so as
they give you the full background of Mack Bolan and why he returned
from service in Vietnam to conduct a private war against the Mafia.
The biggest question I had before picking up Battle Mask was where
Pendleton could go with the story considering how guns-blazing filled
with action the first two books were. Question answered. This book is
just as bloody and filled with action as the first two. Most importantly,
Men's action story or not, Pendleton is an excellent storyteller. It is
easy, quick reading and so action-packed it is really hard to put down.
Battle Mask once again finds Bolan on his own show more against overwhelming
odds. It's a story about the miracles of plastic surgery and fake
identities and Bolan getting the upper hand against his enemies. The
plastic surgery bit is of course similar to Richard Stark's Man With the
Getaway Face.
In any event, Read every page. The Executioner series is that good. show less
I have just added a new tag, ultra-violence" to my list of tags. And all the Mack Bolan books fit the bill so far.
Not necessarily graphic, but a lot of it and fast and non-stop."
Not necessarily graphic, but a lot of it and fast and non-stop."
Mack Bolan undergoes a surgical face-change and is watched over by a guardian angel--a Mafia don's beautiful daughter--as he infiltrates the Mafia from within on a quest to destroy the underworld organization
See Book 1 of the series.
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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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