About a dozen years ago I went on a buying spree for old Men's Adventure paperbacks. For the most part I bought them for their covers and their very straight-forward stories.
Through some exploring on the internet I've learned that Don Pendleton is pretty much the creator of today's modern Action/Adventure genre.
Mack Bolan is a lone-wolf executioner of "justice" on a one-man mission to rid the world of the mafia. This being written in the '70's the mafia was top-of mind.
If you're a comics reader then The Punisher will come to mind as it is a complete lift from The Executioner series.
Let me just say, right now, I did not like this book. I hated it.
Through my 55-year-old eyes, I saw nothing original here (although, as I said, this was original at the time) and was nothing more than gun porn.
The series itself took from the old pulp novels of the 1930's. Bolan himself leaves a sharp shooter medal at the scene of every massacre.
This being book 24 there are lots of references and characters from previous books, so there is a bit of reward for the dedicated reader.
Two thirds of the way in and I was hating myself for wasting my time with this crap. The body count was incredible with nearly all of them suffering a gurgling death or a splatter on the wall and a wipe with the body as it smears the gore on the way to the floor.
I am so sick of gun justice - I know there is fiction out there that does not rely on so much flying lead but it's difficult to find
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