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Mack Bolan the Executioner #59
Crude Kill
Lutfi, a master terrorist, had commandeered the largest oil tanker in the world. The vandal threatened to blow up the ship and turn the Mediterranean into a giant oil slick.
Mack Bolan boarded the tanker as a one-man assault squad. He struck with lightning, savaging everything in his path until it came down to just two men: Bolan and Lutfi.
In the black steel bowels of the ship, as Bolan tracked his prey, he heard the sound of a grenade-spoon popping off as his foot brushed against it in the darkness. Now the little deathmaker was activated. Bolan would be dead in 4.4 seconds. . .
Mack Bolan boarded the tanker as a one-man assault squad. He struck with lightning, savaging everything in his path until it came down to just two men: Bolan and Lutfi.
In the black steel bowels of the ship, as Bolan tracked his prey, he heard the sound of a grenade-spoon popping off as his foot brushed against it in the darkness. Now the little deathmaker was activated. Bolan would be dead in 4.4 seconds. . .
189 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1983
About the author
Don Pendleton
1,579 books172 followersDon Pendleton was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, December 12, 1927 and died October 23, 1995 in Arizona.
He wrote mystery, action/adventure, science-fiction, crime fiction, suspense, short stories, nonfiction, and was a comic scriptwriter, poet, screenwriter, essayist, and metaphysical scholar. He published more than 125 books in his long career, and his books have been published in more than 25 foreign languages with close to two hundred million copies in print throughout the world.
After producing a number of science-fiction and mystery novels, Don launched in 1969 the phenomenal Mack Bolan: The Executioner, which quickly emerged as the original, definitive Action/Adventure series. His successful paperback books inspired a new particularly American literary genre during the early 1970's, and Don became known as "the father of action/adventure."
"Although The Executioner Series is far and away my most significant contribution to world literature, I still do not perceive myself as 'belonging' to any particular literary niche. I am simply a storyteller, an entertainer who hopes to enthrall with visions of the reader's own incipient greatness."
Don Pendleton's original Executioner Series are now in ebooks, published by Open Road Media. 37 of the original novels.
Wikipedia: Don Pendleton
He wrote mystery, action/adventure, science-fiction, crime fiction, suspense, short stories, nonfiction, and was a comic scriptwriter, poet, screenwriter, essayist, and metaphysical scholar. He published more than 125 books in his long career, and his books have been published in more than 25 foreign languages with close to two hundred million copies in print throughout the world.
After producing a number of science-fiction and mystery novels, Don launched in 1969 the phenomenal Mack Bolan: The Executioner, which quickly emerged as the original, definitive Action/Adventure series. His successful paperback books inspired a new particularly American literary genre during the early 1970's, and Don became known as "the father of action/adventure."
"Although The Executioner Series is far and away my most significant contribution to world literature, I still do not perceive myself as 'belonging' to any particular literary niche. I am simply a storyteller, an entertainer who hopes to enthrall with visions of the reader's own incipient greatness."
Don Pendleton's original Executioner Series are now in ebooks, published by Open Road Media. 37 of the original novels.
Wikipedia: Don Pendleton
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March 26, 2024
A well done Bolan tale by one of the best action writers of the time, Chet Cunningham. Bolan is on a mission to find and eliminate a dangerous terrorist named Lufti. After running Lufti from hideout to hideout, Bolan finds the terrorist in his most ambitious act, he has taken control of the biggest oil tanker built and he plans to blow it up if he doesn't get the funds he wants. Bolan has to go against a force of paramilitaries on the half mile long ship and get to Lufti at all costs.
Highly recommended, one of the better ones to this point after Pendleton gave it up.
Highly recommended, one of the better ones to this point after Pendleton gave it up.
June 1, 2019
I love this series, I actually started reading these in middle school. This one had Mack as his usual badass self going alone against a tanker full of terrorists. These are usually somewhat predictable but always a fun ride! Plus at under 190 pages they are a quick usually high paced read, straight to the point!
July 25, 2018
A low rent Die Hard type Bolan story. This is the kind of Executioner book that I like. All action. Not much filler and back round story. Crude Kill has the one-man assault squad chasing a terrorist, yep, from Italy, to the shores of Toulon France. There he hijacks a SULCC ( super ultra large crude carrier ) and demands money, political prisoners released and his freedom, or else he threatens to dump massive amounts of oil in to the Mediterranean sea. He also has c-4 explosives placed strategically throughout the ship. He can blow it at anytime. Just like Die Hard, are righteous terrorist has other plans in mind. It's up to Mack Bolan To board the oil tanker and fight his way through this madman and his horde.
This volume was handled by Chet Cunningham, the man who pens the even number titles of The Penetrator series that I really enjoy. I don't believe he wrote many Bolan books, six I think, but he should have. The man can pitch some action around.
This volume was handled by Chet Cunningham, the man who pens the even number titles of The Penetrator series that I really enjoy. I don't believe he wrote many Bolan books, six I think, but he should have. The man can pitch some action around.
June 30, 2023
A lone badass protagonist against the evil ways of a cadre of terrorists hell bent on destruction?
A single setting set in the confines of a massive oil tanker?
Explosions, death, violence and page turning action nearly every second?
Maybe it’s because I’m STILL hopped up on the adrenaline dump I received from both Extraction 2 and John Wick 4 but whatever the case Crude Kill delivered on every single thing I look for in a novel of this genre.
Don’t give me deep storylines or believable characters or even a believable plot. Just give me something like this. Chet Cunningham knows that THIS is how every Executioner novel should be. Lean, mean, frenetically paced, over the top, and non-freaking stop. I don’t know how it happens but it seems every 4 or 5 of these Mack Bolan stories end up being some of the best thrillers I’ve been fortunate to read.
And Crude Kill is no different, easily being the best Executioner novel since Doomsday Disciples.
If you want a lesson in dadlit done right, look no further than Crude Kill.
A single setting set in the confines of a massive oil tanker?
Explosions, death, violence and page turning action nearly every second?
Maybe it’s because I’m STILL hopped up on the adrenaline dump I received from both Extraction 2 and John Wick 4 but whatever the case Crude Kill delivered on every single thing I look for in a novel of this genre.
Don’t give me deep storylines or believable characters or even a believable plot. Just give me something like this. Chet Cunningham knows that THIS is how every Executioner novel should be. Lean, mean, frenetically paced, over the top, and non-freaking stop. I don’t know how it happens but it seems every 4 or 5 of these Mack Bolan stories end up being some of the best thrillers I’ve been fortunate to read.
And Crude Kill is no different, easily being the best Executioner novel since Doomsday Disciples.
If you want a lesson in dadlit done right, look no further than Crude Kill.
December 17, 2007
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