A friend who is lurking so far in the background he's offlist
has this to say about THE EXECUTIONER series...
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Wanna forward my ramblings? J
====== Read all of the original Executioner series as well as
several years of the New War (plus various spin off books).
Seargent Mercy Mack Bolan reminded me of the kind of warm
hearted shooters that serve as protagonists in John Woo's
heroic bloodshed movies.
The Executioner made quite an impression on me when I first
read the original series (circa the late seventies, while the
War against the Mafia was still unfolding in print).
The quirky Destroyer series (the first novel of which
included a character reading an Executioner book), the Death
Merchant, the spaghetti westernish Edge and scores of other
action series from Pinnacle and other publishers filled
paperback racks in the wake of the chronicles of Mack Bolan
(as did, in the 90s, a poorly distributed few issues of a
comicbook adaption). At one time, Sly Stallone was mentioned
as Bolan in the oft mentioned Executioner movie adaption;
after the palooka and company botched adapting David
Morrell's incredible First Blood, I wasn't inclined to give
Stallone a second chance.
I am uncertain if the entire New War cycle was ghost written
or if Pendleton actually scratched out a few. Some of these
titles were also memorable.
I was impressed with the spin off Able Team title. Several of
them unvealed harrowing political situations in Latin America
quite a bit more gray and complex than the American media
sketched for public consumption. Of course, featuring lots of
hardware, including Atchisson machine-shotguns, was a plus in
my pulp book as well.
Jeff
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