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Assault on Soho (The Executioner) Kindle Edition
Mack Bolan knows he escaped France too easily. When the Calais ferry arrives in Dover, he steps onto the dock expecting a trap. The quiet port fills with gunfire, and he is on the verge of being overrun when a sports car pulls up beside him, and a woman tells him to jump in. The United Kingdom is in danger, and she believes that only Bolan can save it. As thanks for the rescue the man known as the Executioner will bring his unique brand of justice to the underworld of Great Britain.
He fought his way into England, and he will have to fight his way out. Battling a bizarre, perverse conspiracy, he is shocked when the Mafia does the unthinkable—and asks the Executioner to join its side.
Assault on Soho is the 6th book in the Executioner series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherOpen Road Media Mystery & Thriller
- Publication dateDecember 16, 2014
- File size6549 KB
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- ASIN : B00OYMPCRQ
- Publisher : Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller (December 16, 2014)
- Publication date : December 16, 2014
- Language : English
- File size : 6549 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 222 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #150,181 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #518 in Crime Action Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #1,185 in Vigilante Justice Thrillers
- #1,276 in War & Military Action Fiction (Books)
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About the author
Don Pendleton (1927-1995) was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. At the age of fourteen, during World War II, he enlisted in the Navy, serving until 1947 as a Radioman. He returned to active Naval duty during the Korean Conflict. Following the war he worked as a railroad telegrapher, CAA/FAA air traffic control specialist, and aerospace engineer. In the latter career, he worked as a senior engineer for Martin-Marietta's Titan ICBM programs and as an engineering administrator in NASA's Apollo Moonshot program. He published his first short story in 1957 and his first novel in 1961. Leaving his aerospace career behind, Don turned to full time writing in 1967, produced a number of mystery, science fiction and futuristic novels, a screenplay, and numerous poems, short stories and essays.
In 1969, War Against the Mafia, featuring Mack Bolan, the Executioner, was published. The phenomenal success of the first novel led to thirty-seven sequels over the next twelve years. Dozens of imitators, inspired by Pendleton's success, arose during the 1970's to constitute a new particularly American literary genre and the term Action/Adventure coined by Pendleton himself, has since spread to encompass television and motion picture formats as well. The original best-selling Executioner novels have been translated in more than thirty languages with in-print figures of more than 200 million copies worldwide. Pendleton franchised "Don Pendleton's Mack Bolan" to Harlequin's Gold Eagle Books in 1980, and more than 900 books based on the Executioner and spin-offs--Phoenix Force, Able Team, Stony Man, Mack Bolan, Super Bolan, have been published under their continuing program.
In December, 2014, Open Road Media released 37 ebooks of the original Don Pendleton's The Executioner. Mack Bolan's war against the mafia begins again.
As of October 11, 2016, Open Road Media is putting War Against the Mafia, Death Squad, and Battle Mask, books 1, 2, and 3, into print.
In November 2018, an Executioner short story written by Don Pendleton in 1978, "Willing to Kill, The Executioner: Mack Bolan Short Story", with an Introduction by Don's widow, Linda Pendleton, was published in ebook and print by Pendleton Artists.
Don's more recent works include a series of six mystery novels based the exploits of Joe Copp, Private Eye, and another six mystery novels based on the character, Ashton Ford, Psychic Detective. Both series are in print, Kindle, and in audiobooks.
Don turned to nonfiction in 1990, and with his wife, Linda, produced To Dance With Angels, a definitive study of life after death and spirit communication. Published in hardcover by Kensington, it had four editions. Linda wrote a new Introduction and put the latest edition into print and Kindle. Don and Linda also co-wrote Whispers From the Soul, available now in audiobook, print and Kindle.
Don's last novel was Roulette: The Search for the Sunrise Killer, co-written with Linda Pendleton, and is available in Print, Kindle, and audiobook.
Together, Don and Linda, adapted and scripted The Executioner, War Against the Mafia, to Comic graphic novel format, which was published in 1993. Following Don's death, Linda adapted and scripted the second Executioner novel, Death Squad, published in 1996 by Vivid Comics.
His last nonfiction books are A Search for Meaning From the Surface of a Small Planet; and The Metaphysics of the Novel and a Novelist by Don Pendleton with Linda Pendleton, a book for aspiring writers. Recently Linda published a collection of Don's Metaphysical writings: The Cosmic Breath: Metaphysical Essays of Don Pendleton. Also published was Soul Expressions: Poetry Collection Linda Pendleton and Don Pendleton.
In 2012, Don's science fiction was republished for Kindle and Print: The Guns of Terra 10; The Godmakers; and The Olympians. The three books are also available in a Kindle box set.
Don was a long time member of the Authors Guild; Authors League of America; Writer's Guild of America, West; Past West Coast Director of Mystery Writers of America; International Platform Association; and a frequent speaker on campus and writers' symposiums.
Don Pendleton published more than 125 books in his career. For biographical reference and bibliography on Don Pendleton, see:
Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers, (St. Martin Press); Contemporary Authors (Gale); Queen's Edition, Dictionary of International Biography (Melrose - London, England); Murder Ink (Workman); Who's Who in the Midwest.
Official Don Pendleton websites: http://www.donpendleton.com
http://www.executionerseries.com
Photo of Don Pendleton by Linda Pendleton.
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Bolan quickly realizes that he is dealing with criminals who want him to get rid of their completion and he wants no part of it. He leaves, but circumstances force him time and time again to ally himself with his new mysterious “friends.” The British police are looking for him and the Mafia sends a whole army to England to hunt him down. On top of that, members of the Sade group, as Bolan calls his allies, start being murdered one by one.
That is the plot of the book. As far as the Executioner books go, this one is average. I read worse, but I also read better. The action is overall good, although there is less fighting than in the previous books. Ann Franklin, the woman who saves Bolan from ambush, gets a lot of character development and she is quite an interesting person despite, or maybe because of, being conflicted and a little bit unhinged.
But the book has weaknesses. For one, the British police is presented as being one of the best in the world. But in the end they come out as sloppy and ineffectual. At one point they spot Bolan and have a good shot at arresting him, but they back away. Why? It is as if they have an agenda of their own and don’t want to arrest him, but everything in the book lets us believe that they are honest cops who really do want to do their job. In previous books police was a real menace for Bolan. Here, they are almost ignored.
It also bothered me that Bolan arranged to meet his Mafia contact (Lou, the undercover cop/gangster is back.) at the Tower of London knowing fully well that he will almost certainly face another ambush. And indeed, a shootout ensues all the while tourists are running around in blind panic. Bolan had always taken care to avoid civilian casualties. I’m sure that with all these bullets flying around, some of the people at the tower had to get hurt in the crossfire.
Then there is the whole murder mystery. Normally Executioner books are very straightforward and simplistic. Bolan arrives in town, Bolan seeks out gangsters, Bolan kills gangsters, Bolan then goes to another city and repeats the process. After some time it might get boring. But this time the identity of the killer is not known, so I was curious how Bolan will tackle this, as he is more of an assassin and a commando than an investigator.
Well, I don’t want to spoil the mystery, so I won’t say who the killer is, but let’s just say that the murderer’s identity is obvious almost from the start and the whole murder mystery is handled rather poorly. I was disappointed.
So, in final words, I would say that if you are reading the entire Executioner series (I plan to read all the books from the 1st to 38th. These are the ones written by the original author.), then you should read this one too. But if you are more interested in good, standalone Executioner books, I suggest you skip this one. Assault on Soho is okay, but there are much better ones in the series.