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The Executioner — by Don Pendleton
The Executioner Series in Order: 465 books
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War Against the Mafia
Book - 1
INTRODUCING ... A BRAND NEW ALL-AMERICAN HERO! A brand new series of exciting, action-packed reading . . . THE EXECUTIONER will keep you glued to your seat while your pulse beats faster as you follow Vietnam war hero Mack Bolan in his savage, nerv...
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Death Squad
Book - 2
THE EXECUTIONER ... TIMES TEN! Here's the second in the new series of fast- moving, action-packed novels -- as up-to-the- minute as your daily paper -- about Mack Bolan, The Executioner, and his all-out war against the underworld. The Executioner ...
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Battle Mask
Book - 3
THE EXECUTIONER CLOSES IN FOR THE KILL... In the third book of the best-selling Executioner series, war hero Mack Bolan, wearing a new Sicilian-style face fashioned for him by a plastic surgeon and ex-war buddy, infiltrates the inner family of the...
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Miami Massacre
Book - 4
THE EXECUTIONER CRUSHES A MAFIA SUMMIT MEETING! Mack Bolan is informed that Mafia overlords are meeting in Florida to make arrangements to wipe him out--permanently! He penetrates their inner council, only to encounter the guns of the dreaded Tal...
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Continental Contract
Book - 5
"A QUICK KILL IS NOT MY IDEA OF JUSTICE. I WANT HIM DYING SLOW ... AND KNOWING IT!" These are the instructions the Mafia master of Washington has given his henchmen: "Get Mack Bolan, the Executioner, and bring him back alive." The largest priva...
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Assault on Soho
Book - 6
PICK UP THE EXECUTIONER! The car was taking repeated hits and swerving erratically when Bolan reached it. A door flew open -- Bolan dived in. Off they went -- He had an impression of soft curves, a nice fragrance, a leather skirt high on gleamin...
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Nightmare in New York
Book - 7
THE EXECUTIONER VERSUS THE ASSASSINS In this book, seventh of the best selling Executioner series, Mack Bolan continues his war against the Mafia. Back in America after crippling the French and British Syndicates, he discovers the five families of t...
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Chicago Wipe-Out
Book - 8
WHO IS THIS MAN? Meet Mack Bolan. combat hero of Korea and Viet Nam and now a one-man army fighting America's most insidious enemy -- the Mafia. In Viet Nam the military ledgers credit Bolan with more than 90 VC "Kills." He was an extraordinary...
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Vegas Vendetta
Book - 9
"GET BOLAN!" As usual, these are the words awaiting our hero whenever there is a suspicion of his being in the vicinity. Because of his all-consuming mission -- to permanently eradicate the Mafia -- Mack Bolan fights a lonely war. His methods are u...
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Caribbean Kill
Book - 10
The police in thirty states are on the lookout for him. The FBI is on his trail. He's on the VIP list at Interpol. There's virtually no law enforcement agency that isn't familiar with his name, and his game. But the people most anxious to put him ...
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California Hit
Book - 11
Firefight! Fight fire with fire! The heat is on as Mack Bolan's one-man crime crusade against the Mafia moves west. The sunny Golden Gate city finds out what the Executioner is all about when he explodes into their midst, hot on the trail of th...
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Boston Blitz
Book - 12
BOSTON! He rarely kills in anger; his is a war of cold methodology and precise maneuvers--but in this Boston campaign we find our warrior moving with a blazing determination to shake that town apart and to reduce its underworld to ashes. His only ...
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Washington I.O.U.
Book - 13
POWER PLAY... That's the Washington game. When Mack Bolan crashes onto the scene he discovers a rat's nest of mobsters and so-called political untouchables building a new game in town. Here, at the nerve center of America, the Executioner finds his ...
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San Diego Siege
Book - 14
WANTED: MACK BOLAN The police in every state are on the lookout for him. The FBI is on his trail. He's on the VIP list at the CIA and Interpol. There's virtually no law enforcement agency that isn't familiar with his name, and his game. But the...
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Panic in Philly
Book - 15
SPECIAL OPERATOR! That's the word that goes out from the Philadelphia mob. The Philly underground is in danger of coming apart at the seams, rocked from within by a succession of power plays by ambitious lieutenants of aging capo Stefano Angeletti. T...
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Sicilian Slaughter
Book - 16
School for Assassins! The hot and arid island of Sicily is infamous as the birthplace of the Mafia. From this Mediterranean spawning ground the deadly forces of evil and corruption have spread to all points of the globe. In the U.S. the Mafia's in...
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Jersey Guns
Book - 17
Hemmed in by killers, the Executioner fertilizes the Garden State with blood Mack Bolan bombs down the Jersey Turnpike in a stolen Mustang, a bullet lodged in his ribs and blood seeping down his leg. A dragnet is closing in on the Executioner, wh...
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Texas Storm
Book - 18
ONE NUMBER AT A TIME ... Texas was hard territory, a giant state with a Mafia operation to match. But Mack Bolan would handle it one number at a time. In order of appearance. A single man against well-armed killers. It was a hell of a way to live .....
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Detroit Deathwatch
Book - 19
$150 MILLION PLUS That's the mob's annual "take" in Detroit. Fact, not fiction. The Mafia has big muscles in autotown. 'V S fl NI 031NIEld Sure, the usual rackets and scams like gambling, prostitution, loansharking and such pull in plenty of ready c...
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New Orleans Knockout
Book - 20
INTERMOB WAR! And Mack Bolan jumps right in the middle. On target in the center of the deadliest battle since the Mafia was destroyed in Boston. Now the Executioner hits New Orleans, and it will never be the same. The odds are long, but the time is ...
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Firebase Seattle
Book - 21
Mack Bolan's relentless one-man war on the Mafia has taken him on a cross-country, city-blitzing itinerary that has left various pockets of the mob's organization bleeding and in wild disarray. Of course, a single warrior can only do so much damage, ...
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Hawaiian Hellground
Book - 22
ON THE RAMPAGE The big picture window at the north wall popped and vibrated as something sizzled into that room and exploded into the face of Puli's escort, jerking the guy like a rag doll and sending pieces of him spraying everywhere. The window ...
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St. Louis Showdown
Book - 23
ST LOUIS BLOWS! The show-me state of Missouri sees war in the Streets of St. Louis when the Executioner arrives to do battle with the local Mafia. And the New York mob has already sent reinforcements to aid the St. Luuis boys in their campaign to ...
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Canadian Crisis
Book - 24
"The most insidious and powerful elements of the America Mafia have moved into Montreal ... they have taken a firm grip on a situation that threatens to blow up friendly relations between Canada and the U.S.... a trade crisis develops ...political re...
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Colorado Kill Zone
Book - 25
IT IS A TRAP... And Bolan knows it. He also knows that these men are not the usual Mafia goons. This is a highly trained paramilitary team, armed with the most sophisticated weaponry. They are going to fight Bolan in his own style, and then some Th...
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Acapulco Rampage
Book - 26
A MEXICAN SLAYRIDE! Take the most chic resort city in the Western Hemisphere, add some of the better-known names in American show biz, throw in a collection of top international politicians and industrialists, season the pot with a congress of the p...
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Dixie Convoy
Book - 27
Do or die in Dixie... Mack Bolan finds that the Mafia is moving over one billion dollars a year in stolen goods, drugs, and contraband along the Dixie Corridor into Atlanta. Then they repackage the hot stuff and sell it via seemingly legitimate mark...
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Savage Fire
Book - 28
PITTSFIELD REVISITED! Blitzkrieg! Blood and thunder! Fire and terror and death! These are the weapons of the man whom the whole world has come to know as The Executioner! Now he is back where it all began -- and perhaps this is where it shall inev...
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Command Strike
Book - 29
MISSION UNTHINKABLE... Long live the king, the king is dead. Angie Marinello, Boss of All the Bosses, has paid the final tab to the Executioner. But from the ashes of Augie's defeat is rising a new and stronger syndicate -- better than ever. The b...
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Cleveland Pipeline
Book - 30
Bolan vs. Morello In the wake of Bolan's strike against Mafia headquarters in New York, the mob is experiencing its darkest hours -- its member families pulling back into semi-isolated territorial groups, concerned chiefly with their own survival. T...
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Arizona Ambush
Book - 31
Beat the Devil Hinshaw . . . Worthy . . . Morales -- names with ghostly echoes from Mack Bolan's military past. Add an abandoned combat training center in the Arizona wasteland, a kinky U.S. Senator, a badly soiled "businessman," a self-exiled Mafia...
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Tennessee Smash
Book - 32
Mack Bolan slams into Nashville, the golden capital of country music...and a new Mafia headquarters!...
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Monday's Mob
Book - 33
Only Six Days The President of the United States had made Mack Bolan an offer he could not refuse... But it was one he couldn't accept, yet. The White House was concerned about the growing dangers of international terrorism and paramilitary threat...
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Terrible Tuesday
Book - 34
Five Days To Go If this is Tuesday, it must be Southern California ...and the second day in the Executioner's all-out, go-for-broke blitz against the Mafia's stranglehold on America. Mack Bolan's daring California Concept involves the really big boy...
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Wednesday's Wrath
Book - 35
Four Days, and Counting... It is Wednesday of Bolan's Last Week, his finale against the Mafia. Three days down, four to go. After years of relentless warring on the mob, The Executioner had to attempt a mop-up operation with a seven-day deadline. A ...
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Thermal Thursday
Book - 36
Three Days Left It's Thursday of Bolan's Big Week ... four days etched in blood have been recorded, with three days left to complete his final deadline in the war against the Mafia. The Executioner visits Florida today, to seek and destroy whatever...
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Friday's Feast
Book - 37
Two Days Left... Day Five of Mack Bolan's raging six-day Terminal Blitz takes this superb warrior into the new stronghold of the eastern Mafia forces! The town is Baltimore...the pace is frantic...and the situation is bloody as the Executioner smash...
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Satan's Sabbath
Book - 38
The Last Day! This is it...the end of Mack Bolan's long second mile into hell...the day to end all days of the Executioner's one man war against the Mafia. If you were there in the beginning or at any point along the way, then you will certainly w...
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The New War
Book - 39
Rescue or terminate... Bolan's mission: rescue and evacuate the American agent known as Laconia ... or terminate him. Laconia had been tracking a group of Arab terrorists across three continents until he suddenly disappeared in the remote jungl...
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Double Crossfire
Book - 40
Caught in the crossfire... It began in Beverly Hills outside a typical neighborhood mansion ...a savage shootout between Mack Bolan and a crew of Mafia hitmen. This was followed by the kidnapping of a Washington diplomat... and Bolan was on his way...
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Violent Streets
Book - 41
Mack is back! The call to Mack Bolan is urgent, almost frantic. Rosario Blancanales's kid sister, Toni, has been raped and beaten --but at least she is still alive, unlike the five other victims whose throats were slashed by the Minneapolis maniac...
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Return to Vietnam
Book - 43
Mercy Mission: POW As Bolan jumped into the blackness, he thought of that terrible day thirteen years earlier when The Executioner left the war-torn jungles of Vietnam for home, to bury his parents and sister. Now he was returning as Colonel Phoen...
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Terrorist Summit
Book - 44
A chilling congress of killers The daughter of a top U.S. hi-tech contractor had been kidnapped in Algiers--a classic terrorist act in broad daylight. It looked like the girl's father was about to give the perpetrators what they wanted: a low-y...
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Paramilitary Plot
Book - 45
Warning: Black Death! The disappearance of a leading U.S. biochemist was handled routinely by the Department of Justice... until their agent on the case was found dead in Florida, his body ravaged by a plague bacillus. Enter Mack Bolan. The mur...
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Renegade Agent
Book - 47
He deals in death Frank Edwards, a busted CIA agent, was trafficking with terrorists in Europe. His illegal-weapons' supplier was a Defense Department contractor in Massachusetts. His European connection was a high-ranking British Intelligence off...
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Libya Connection
Book - 48
Mack is mad as all hell This time, all the stops were out. Mack Bolan became a single-minded, death-spewing avenger the minute Eve disappeared.... Someone he cared about, Eve had been swallowed up by the voracious bloodthirst of international t...
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Doomsday Disciples
Book - 49
Love means 'death to all others'! Using the American tradition of freedom of religion as a smoke screen, a cultist group had gone mad in the streets of San Francisco. People were being slaughtered in the name of a bizarre new sacrilege, The Universa...
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Brothers in Blood
Book - 50
A headlong rush into Hell No human can go on forever without respite. But even on well-earned R & R in the pristine wilderness, Mack Bolan is again called to the howling hellgrounds of justice and death. Through the steep-walled canyons of Idah...
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Vulture's Vengeance
Book - 51
Flying into the face of terror! Mack Bolan knew it was now or never-never land as he reached for the ejection-seat handle. He rocketed into the night above the exploding fighter jet... and directly into the path of his pursuer's lead-spitting plan...
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Tuscany Terror
Book - 52
Let the bastards beware! Crazed communist killers had the Italian government and NATO in a stranglehold. The terrorists were, literally, holding trump-- the wife and infant daughter of a high-ranking U.S. Army officer. The bloodthirsty vermin ha...
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The Invisible Assassins
Book - 53
Deadlier than the Mafia! An American computer expert was cut down on a dark street in front of Mack Bolan's eyes. Within hours The Executioner was on his way to Japan, where he faced fanatical hatreds that were keener than a swordblade. Alone i...
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Mountain Rampage
Book - 54
High-altitude horror A terrorist organization coiled within the crannies of the Colorado Rockies was creating venomous drugs that cause mind surrender, then death. The entire United States is in peril of becoming a terminal rest home. Mack Bola...
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Paradine's Gauntlet
Book - 55
Through the gates of madness! Bolan was up against a master adversary -- Paradine. The terrorist tsar, presumed dead after an earlier encounter with The Executioner, had returned with a vengeance. Paradine has hijacked a plane filled with an in...
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Island Deathtrap
Book - 56
Live Free or Kill! A foreign terrorist group had taken over a small island off the coast of Maine as a conduit for the importation of men and arms into the U.S. To ensure the secrecy of their hardsite, the criminals needed the help of the local...
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Flesh Wounds
Book - 57
Heliground hostage: April Rose Violence was inevitable when America's most vicious leftist group, the Weatherman, switched sides and resurfaced on the far Right. The beautiful April Rose had made contact with one of the terrorists, a former cam...
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Ambush on Blood River
Book - 58
Bolan and the Force A soldier-for-hire named Scarr led a troop of Cubans back into the darkest heart of Africa. Scarr and his band of renegade mercs, under the control of the KGB, had returned to retrieve a fortune buried there by mercenaries year...
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Crude Kill
Book - 59
Treachery below deck 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 assaul...
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Sold for Slaughter
Book - 60
Assault on Algiers! A federal government agent was missing, a very special agent. Mack Bolan found her in a chicken coop in Kansas. At first the sultry beauty did not recognize Mack. At first she could only moan. Her name was Smiley Dublin, a Range...
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Day of Mourning
Book - 62
Stony Man smashed! Mack Bolan sensed danger when he lost contact with Stony Man Farm. The Phoenix fortress in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains should be impenetrable. But was it? Bolan returned home to find the Stony stronghold's security violat...
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The New War Book
Book - 63
From Nam to the loneliest war... Mack Bolan always knew he was right for the job. A soul-toughening sojourn in a hell called Nam taught him that an evil Hydra was out to rape the world and eat it whole. Nothing was stopping it. Someone had to, and...
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Dead Man Running
Book - 64
Mack is back with a vengeance! Mack Bolan returns from Russia to find the CIA has lifted its liquidation mandate. He is granted a stay of execution--for twelve hours. But no one can stay The Executioner's hand as he sets out on his mission of r...
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Cambodia Clash
Book - 65
Bloody flight to freedom! America has known all along of the POWs' existence in a Cambodian camp. But Washington refuses to acknowledge the documented proof. The League of Families--a group desperate to see the prisoners freed, and sick of bein...
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Orbiting Omega
Book - 66
Red Alert: The World Midnight. Suddenly the Moscow sky bursts into broad daylight. Eight hours later a similar flash also bathes Washington, D.C., in its glaring spill. Twenty-five thousand miles above the two capitals, exploding hydrogen warhe...
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Beirut Payback
Book - 67
Is Beirut burning? Mack Bolan learns that archenemy Greb Strakhov is in Lebanon. The Executioner has a personal vendetta with the KGB terror merchant. Bolan's mission is twofold: to settle the score with Strakhov, and to avenge the 240 U.S. Mar...
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Prairie Fire
Book - 68
Spirit of the heartland Mack Bolan, wounded and run to earth, is trapped in an isolated Kansas farmhouse. Outside, the dogs of death are waiting for nightfall before they rip him apart. As a hired killer, The Cowboy" sells his services only to ...
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Skysweeper
Book - 69
HOSTAGED MIND Lasers! The word holds a promise for peace in the world. And the U.S. is twenty years ahead of its nearest rival in the latest use of the device. But the secret of this technology lies in the tangled psyche of a former POW, brainwashed...
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Ice Cold Kill
Book - 70
Iron curtain call! A crack Soviet scientist has invented a computer that can "think" like a human being. And the West sees the development as a lethal threat if this brilliant mind is allowed to remain in the U.S.S.R. Disenchanted with the Russ...
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Blood Dues
Book - 71
NEW MIAMI WAR! Rumors and rumbles of a Cuban exile connection with the Mafia crime machine in Miami have come to Bolan's ears. The Executioner enters an old battleground, only to find hordes of Cuban outcasts crowding the city center, and the teemin...
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Hellbinder
Book - 72
"This land is min..." The Syrians are seeking territorial control of the Middle East, and they have a plan to annex Israel and drive the Israelis into the sea. The Syrian weapon: canisters of deadly nerve gas stolen from the United States. B...
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Appointment in Kabul
Book - 73
THE RUSSIANS WANT AFGHANISTAN But not its people. And a Soviet cannibal has found a weapon to annihilate the populace--a chemical called Devil's Rain. With intel supplied by a CIA spook, Mack Bolan leads a unit of the feared mujahedeen, the ...
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Savannah Swingsaw
Book - 74
BOLAN GOES TO JAIL! The Executioner poses as a convict to spring a man marked for death by a mystery assassin. Mack Bolan wants to know why a petty embezzler is the target of an international hit man. But Bolan's plan is foiled by a group known...
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The Bone Yard
Book - 75
THERE'S A WILD CARD IN VEGAS The Mafia, the Japanese yakuza and the Vegas Old Guard each want control of the city. Mack Bolan is the new player and he's dealing in death, with skills learned in a hell called Nam and honed to a sharp edge in the...
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Teheran Wipeout
Book - 76
A TIME BOMB IS TICKING IN IRAN Ayatollah Khomeini, a power-mad tyrant. is using religion to mesmerize his people and enforce his crazed will. Thousands of Iranians are butchered in acts that are pitching the country into a relentless downward s...
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Hollywood Hell
Book - 77
THE ROOTLESS AND THE RUTHLESS Each year thousands of teenage runaways are cast adrift in Hollywood. Lured by the lights of the city of illusion, many of these "chickens'. wind up in porno flicks. And many of them wind up dead -- as snuff-film vict...
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Death Games
Book - 78
SOMEONE MUST DIE Mack Bolan knows the Cuban security force has programmed the kidnapped daughter of a U.S. senator to kill. But he doesn't know who her victim will be. The Executioner can't let the huntress succeed. Even if it means clashing w...
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Council of Kings
Book - 79
THE LONE WOLD VS THE LOAN SHARKS The bloody trail of a loan sharking operation in Oregon leads Mack Bolan to a massive shipload of illegal arms bound for Portland. Bolan refuses to consider the cost in innocent lives if the weapons fall into M...
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Running Hot
Book - 80
SCHOOL FOR SLAUGHTER A new wave of crime is rocking the stability of France. And each incident is made to look like the work of foreign terrorists. But the atrocities are only part of a more ambitious plan. In a desolate highland region, Mack B...
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Shock Waves
Book - 81
CROWNING THE CAPO OF CRIME Mack Bolan persuades a Mafia target to betray the brotherhood, as a trade for a new life in the federal witness program. But the Mob snatches the informant before he has a chance to "sing." The trail of the traitor le...
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Hammerhead Reef
Book - 82
FALL OF THE DRUG LORDS Mack Bolan answers a journalist's desperate cry for help, but arrives in Florida to find the reporter mysteriously murdered. And clues left by the man lead to a billion-dollar drug empire. Narcotics smugglers seem to be a...
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Missouri Deathwatch
Book - 83
ANATOMY OF A BLOOD DEBT A Mafia hit team is trying to gain control of St. Louis. The Executioner is only too aware that if the attack succeeds, it would be a major setback in his everlasting war. Mack Bolan returns to the Missouri killground to sett...
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Hell's Gate
Book - 86
RACE WITH DEATH Enemy bullets have left Mack Bolan seriously wounded. Weak from blood loss and with a fever approaching danger point, he has to keep running without medical aid. Faceless gunners relentlessly pursue the Executioner across the U....
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Hellfire Crusade
Book - 87
BLUEPRINT TO ARMAGEDDON The militant brother of an Arab ruler has kidnapped a brilliant young American. And Mack Bolan knows that in wrong hands the teenager's knowledge of nuclear devices could change the course of history. The Executioner fac...
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Baltimore Trackdown
Book - 88
LAW REFORM -- BOLAN STYLE A police chief betrays his code of honor to the Mafia and tries to persuade fellow officers to accept money from the Mob. Those who refuse are killed. Through all his miles along the hellfire trail, the Executioner has alwa...
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Blood Heat Zero
Book - 90
FROZEN HELL Mack Bolan, exhausted by the firestorm that is his life, decides to take a well-deserved R and R. But instead of some tropical resort, the Executioner plans to challenge nature's whims in the depths of an Icelandic glacier. On a perilous...
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Moscow Massacre
Book - 92
LOADED FOR BEAR Mack Bolan agrees to bury the hatchet with the CIA to help an imperiled Company mole in Moscow. Under official U.S. sanction the Executioner penetrates the Kremlin with a personal vendetta in mind. Bolan ends the blood feud ...
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The Fire Eaters
Book - 93
ACADEMY OF DEATH The bizarre killing of an ex-Vietnam buddy brings Mack Bolan to a military academy in California. In his role as survival instructor at the school, the Executioner uncovers a plot so sinister, it rivals any atrocity he has yet enc...
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Save the Children
Book - 94
DESTROYING A NATION'S FUTURE Someone is stealing America's children, and the disappearances are shattering the structure of U.S. society, leaving families in total despair. With the police and federal agencies handcuffed by laws and procedures,...
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Blood and Thunder
Book - 95
SPECTER OF A DIRTY WAR Vietnam, the conflict that spawned heroes and rogues, still haunts America. Years after the war, a renegade CIA adviser from Nam reopens an opium pipeline he had started in Southeast Asia, using the profits to supply arms...
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Death Has a Name
Book - 96
TARGET: ISRAEL Israel--a nation born of war and nurtured under siege--is the target for a daring raid by a Palestinian suicide squad. More than six thousand miles away in a Florida safehouse, Mack Bolan learns of the plot from a mortally wounde...
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Black Dice
Book - 98
ALASKAN KILLHUNT The KGB has sent a murder squad to silence an agent who defected to the U.S. But the CIA is holding the Russian, and they hope to trade him for two Company operatives caught selling military secrets to the Soviets. Mack Bolan wants ...
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Code of Dishonor
Book - 99
BLOOD ON THE GINZA Billowing clouds of smoke violate the neon glow of the Nishi-Ginza when an explosion rips through one of Tokyo's crowded pachinko parlors. It's a deadly beginning to a trail of deceit and revenge that leads Mack Bolan to a gr...
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Blood Testament
Book - 100
FRIENDSHIP TWO MEN take the same pledge- o see justice done. Mack Bolan, a self-styled executioner, made his 'I vow in silence and alone. Hal Brognola took his oath for all America to see. Hunter and prey in former years, they are now lifelong fri...
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Eternal Triangle
Book - 101
CLASH OF THE GLADIATORS On a hot August night in a small U.S. town, a high-powered rifle cracks out five times. Five men are executed, without trial or jury. The shots will have a profound effect on the lives of two people: the gunman, Mack Bol...
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Split Image
Book - 102
BEAR HUNT One U.S. pilot in exchange for three Bulgarians convicted of spying. It was a routine swap between the superpowers--until the American vanishes on his first night in the States. Mack Bolan is brought in to track down the fugitive flie...
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Assault on Rome
Book - 103
THE ENEMY BELOW The savage murder of a U.S. diplomat leads Mack Bolan to Italy and into the deadly domain of a former enemy -- the reborn Red Justice Column. From its headquarters in the labyrinthine catacombs beneath the streets of Rome, this kille...
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Devil's Horn
Book - 104
DEATH TREK TO BANGKOK America's most horrible plague is given new life when a deadly batch of heroin hits the streets of New York. Mack Bolan traces the source to the Golden Triangle and finds himself in the clutches of a powerful syndicate in Thail...
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Countdown to Chaos
Book - 105
EMERALD ISLE CONSPIRACY British engineers are developing a revolutionary supersonic pursuit plane with VTOL capability. The Pentagon is determined to collaborate with their allies, but intelligence has revealed that U.S.-U.K. relations are about t...
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Run to Ground
Book - 106
DESERT SIEGE A private army of killers bursts across the Mexican border into Arizona, seeking revenge for an attack on their narcotics stronghold. They discover their quarry holed up in a tiny desert town and issue an ultimatum: surrender the target ...
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American Nightmare
Book - 107
PRIMARY TARGET A professional hit team embarks on an odyssey of murder and mayhem that sweeps across America. What appear to be random killings are part of a diabolical plan for revenge. The next victim: a publicity-hungry politician who craves hi...
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Time to Kill
Book - 108
DEATH HUNT Mack Bolan's soft probe into Soviet arms dealing soon exposes a much more sinister scheme. An elite force of Russian commandos has taken up secret residence in Scotland, bringing murder and intrigue to the quiet countryside. In the r...
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Hong Kong Hit List
Book - 109
HELL IN A HOSTILE LAND A ruthless army of young Communist fanatics prepares to unleash a series of terrorist atrocities throughout Red China. The brutal acts of sabotage, hijacking and assassination are designed to appear U.S. or Soviet backed, an...
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Trojan Horse
Book - 110
INVISIBLE ASSASSIN A German-Arab alliance prepares to inflict a bloodbath on Europe, unparalleled in the previous four decades. The terrorist arm of the organization plans to use nuclear warheads and nerve gas to lay the groundwork for the rise of t...
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The Fiery Cross
Book - 111
SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT When a human rights activist is brutally murdered in America's Deep South, his father's suspicions fall on the Aryan Vanguard, a close-knit brotherhood dedicated to the legacy of Adolf Hitler. Desperate to bring justice to h...
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Blood of the Lion
Book - 112
POWER PLAY Colonel Hector Alchupa is about to launch the most daring coup the lower Americas have ever seen. Backed by dirty money and corrupt officials, this man who would be king assembles five of the world's premier assassins in his Amazon ...
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Vietnam Fallout
Book - 113
SEARCH AND DESTROY When a top-level Vietnamese diplomat is targeted for assassination, a New York cop gets caught in the cross fire and dies in the arms of his former war buddy, Mack Bolan. Bolan prowls the seedy back alleys of Little Saigon an...
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Cold Judgment
Book - 114
ASSASSIN'S CREED The world is being held hostage, terrorized by fanatical mercenaries whose services are available to anyone who can pay the price. Intel from Stony Man Farm reveals that a zealous desert sheikh has resurrected the centuries-old...
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Circle of Steel
Book - 115
UNDER THE GUN A ruthless army of renegade mercenaries, led by a Vietnam veteran, joins forces with international assassins to expand their U.S.-based arms-dealing operation. But the ex-soldier's reputation for deception and double cross finally jeop...
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Killing Urge
Book - 116
FAMILY BUSINESS To avoid federal prosecution, high-ranking members of the Giancarlo Family turn state's evidence against Benito Villani, Chicago's biggest crime boss. But when a security leak permanently silences two of the witnesses, one Fed decide...
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Vendetta in Venice
Book - 117
DEATH RUN Mack Bolan's probe into a secret European escape network uncovers a much more sinister scheme: the Mafia plans to take over the operation and extend its pipeline of corruption across the Globe. Posing as an escaped convict anxious to ...
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Warrior's Revenge
Book - 118
RETURN TO VIETNAM A covert CIA operation to locate American MIAs held captive in Southeast Asia turns sour when Langley's recon operative disappears. Washington knows that Mack Bolan is the man who can find him. But the red dust of South Vietna...
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Line of Fire
Book - 119
HEAVY TRAFFIC A powerful cartel of Colombians tightens its stranglehold on the U.S. cocaine trade despite efforts of the DEA to infiltrate the organization. In a desperate bid to cut off the supply at the source, Washington sends one man to wag...
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Border Sweep
Book - 120
LABOR PAINS The brutal elimination of several small-time Mexican coyotes and the discovery of a boxcar full of dead illegals tell the Arizona Border Patrol that something big is up--someone is trying to corner the market in cheap labor. It's a ...
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Twisted Path
Book - 121
GUERRILLA WAR Aggressive, primitive and violent, the Shining Path murders in the name of freedom. Fanatical terrorists who are trying to destroy Peru's government, the Path's "low budget" warfare has suddenly turned high-tech--someone is selling t...
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Desert Strike
Book - 122
POWER PLAY The murder of the king of Saudi Arabia turns the entire Gulf area into a powder keg. Officially the U.S. government's hands are tied. Unofficially the - President wants to know who's behind the assassination--and he wants the killer ter...
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Night Kill
Book - 124
SOULS FOR SLAUGHTER Suspicions about the existence of a nationwide Satanic "mafia," which deals in drugs, pornography and contract killings, are growing. The atrocities committed by psychopaths and serial killers are being linked to these devil wo...
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Dead Man's Tale
Book - 125
MISSING LINK An American agent is gunned down in Luxembourg before he reveals the code to a hologram that contains the blueprint for a sweeping Mafia takeover in Europe. The Mob wants in on what the U.S. government knows. They're certain that one ...
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Death Wind
Book - 126
TROPIC HELL A hard probe into a cocaine pipeline leads Mack Bolan to a Caribbean drug lord and into a shadowy KGB conspiracy. Increased Soviet activity on the island of Grenada points to something more sinister than drug trafficking--and much more...
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Sudan Slaughter
Book - 128
INTO THE FIRE The pro-American Sudanese government in Khartoum has been overthrown in a Libyan-backed military coup. The trump card against U.S. interference: three hostages. The military won't touch it -- a commando force tried and failed. One Fe...
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Haitian Hit
Book - 129
ISLAND HEAT Ravaged by years of tyranny, Haiti is a hellhole of poverty, disease and violence. The new ruling military junta plans to change that - with some assistance from the Mafia. The syndicate's proposed face-lift would turn the island into ...
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The Big Kill
Book - 132
SINS OF THE FATHER Unknown to Dominick Fontanelli, the subsidiaries of his multinational corporation have become fronts for major Mob activities, thanks to his father's ties to organized crime. But a fatal error in judgment by the old man forces D...
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White Line War
Book - 134
WINNER LOSE ALL In a push to seize control of East Coast cocaine distribution from Mob hands, a Colombian drug lord has turned the Miami-New York interstate into a killing zone. Innocent citizens are the victims of his ruthless campaign to elimina...
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Devil Force
Book - 135
WAR WOUNDS Soldiers attached to a CIA-sanctioned death squad in Vietnam, reportedly killed in action, are now turning up dead. This time for real. Their names are being systematically obliterated from the war memorial in Washington, D.C. The lid i...
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Down and Dirty
Book - 136
LONDON BLITZ A powerful group of contractors is building an undersea tunnel to link Britain with the rest of Europe--a project vital to British national and economic security. But deliberate acts of sabotage have left workers dead, fueling antigov...
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Battle Lines
Book - 137
FOREIGN BODIES While chasing down leads on a missing shipment of deadly warfare chemicals in Bulgaria, Mack Bolan decides to check out an offshore oil rig -- a suspect operation that may have cost a U.S. agent and a planeful of innocent passengers...
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Cutting Edge
Book - 139
THE HUNTER Mack Bolan's war takes him south of the border, following a trail he thinks will lead him to the heart of the Medellin drug cartel. Saddled with a bush-league mercenary coerced into fingering key Medellin strike zones, the Executioner i...
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Direct Hit
Book - 141
RETURN TO TERROR Worldwide thefts of massive amounts of radioactive material have plunged Mack Bolan into the globe's greatest terrorist threat. Bolan is there when a French convoy of fissionable plutonium is violently taken, and he knows what the en...
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Fatal Error
Book - 142
BLOOD RED, CHINA WHITE An anonymous assassin is knocking off Mob kingpins--and Mack Bolan is getting the blame. At the center of a syndicate shipping uncut China white to the States lurks a phantom hitman whose life's obsession is to see Bolan bur...
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Helldust Cruise
Book - 143
DEADLY SEAS Mack Bolan begins a soft probe into the suspected cartel-related death of an undercover federal agent. Rusty links in the drug chain lead him to a fellow avenger in the narcotics wars, and into a sideline mission as troubleshooter on a...
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Chicago Payoff
Book - 145
UNFINISHED BUSINESS There's vermin on the streets of Chicago, and Mack Bolan is sent in as exterminator. He's got the right equipment... a .44 Magnum Desert Eagle and a lifelong vendetta against men like Hector Gurrola. The drug lord rules an e...
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Deadly Tactics
Book - 146
SECRETS AGENT While the world watches videotaped "confessions" of a top CIA operative being held prisoner in the Republic of Tongasa, Mack Bolan embarks on a rescue mission in that African country and uncovers a nightmare: Acid Bath. A brain-dr...
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Payback Game
Book - 147
NO TERMS Horrifying film footage of the hanging, lifeless body of a U.S. Marine colonel executed by Middle East terrorists stuns the nation--and propels Mack Bolan into action. The President wants aboveboard negotiations only and issues a direc...
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Deep and Swift
Book - 148
CITY OF FEAR New York, long a narcotics-trading hotspot, explodes with war. The Colombian cartel members, infamous kings of cocaine, are facing their fiercest competition yet. A new breed of heartless killers and dealers have swept in from Vietnam...
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Blood Rules
Book - 149
STONY MAN FIREPOWER The White House war on drugs has run into a snag. Customs and the DEA don't have the muscle to counter the bureaucratic stalls and paper shuttling. Now it's Stony Man's turn. The Feds are betting everything this time. The Execu...
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Death Load
Book - 150
JUNGLE HEAT Thailand's border explodes with violent conflict. Ruthless Khmer Rouge guerrillas are herding hundreds of refugees to be marched to Kampuchea and used as slaves... or worse. Now, however, the guerrillas have gone too far. A State Depar...
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Message to Medallion
Book - 151
FINISH LINE In a daring plan to strike a crippling blow to the Medellin cartel, Mack Bolan, Phoenix Force and Able Team are forged into a supreme fighting unit with a ten-day mission to turn the tide in America's war on drugs. Dispatched to the...
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Combat Stretch
Book - 152
DEATH ON THE WIND A cure for a raging disease suddenly goes wrong and becomes far worse than the disease itself. Inside an isolated research center, the new viral nightmare is contained by a Japanese scientist while he seeks a solution. If it gets...
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Firebase Florida
Book - 153
MIAMI BATTLE ZONE War erupts in South Florida. Mack Bolan is summoned by old friends to battle a wave of terror in underground Miami. It will be a surgical operation, performed quickly and fatally without attracting undue police attention. The ...
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Hawaiian Heat
Book - 155
STATE OF EMERGENCY For two hundred years, Hawaii has been a melting pot of pleasure and sin. Now, the pot is boiling over. The Yakuza, lords of the Japanese underworld, and the ruthless Chinese Triads have declared war for total control of America...
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Phantom Force
Book - 156
TIME WARRIORS A lightning strike against the Japanese underworld finds Mack Bolan the target of a secret army of extremists. Part religious cult, part crime clan, the Unseen Powers share an insane vision of restoring Japan's feudal glory. But firs...
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Cayman Strike
Book - 157
HEADHUNTER A DEA special agent has sufficient evidence to wipe out the notorious Lima drug cartel. But when his plane crashes on Grand Cayman Island in the Caribbean, the head of the cartel dispatches a squad of gunners to silence the agent -- and...
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Firing Line
Book - 158
DIE HARD A soft probe into a shadowy right-wing terrorist organization leads Mack Bolan to Seattle and another group that rules by fear, money and the blood of innocent victims -- the Mafia. The Mob's million-dollar price tag on Bolan's head st...
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Steel and Flame
Book - 159
BLOOD RIVER Big-time drugs have hit the Ohio Valley. But when a terrorist group, in a ruthless show of force, tries to sabotage commerce on the great waterway, Mack Bolan suspects that the flow of narcotics down the mighty river is financing a muc...
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Storm Warning
Book - 160
DESERT RUMBLES America has destroyed the Iraqi war machine in the Mideast. Now It's payback time: Terrorist atrocities against the US. have citizens paralyzed with fear. Mack Bolan and Phoenix Force are dispatched to the Persian Gulf, while Able T...
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Eye of the Storm
Book - 161
STRIKE FORCE A ruthless Arab terrorist force has pushed its campaign of fear into high gear, spreading its message in blood across America -- and feeding daily propaganda to a hungry news machine. With an agenda of their own, Mack Bolan and the St...
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Colors of Hell
Book - 162
YOUNG BLOOD Hunting season never closes on the mean streets of San Francisco's Hunter's Point -- a hellzone of violent crime, crack shacks and teenage triggermen. Here, modern gang war means strafing school yards with machine-gun fire. The innoce...
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Warrior's Edge
Book - 163
KNIGHT STALKER A small African nation comes under siege when its president and his cabinet are kidnapped by a band of ruthless guns for hire. Their leader is a glory-seeking, modern-day Teutonic warrior who wields a machine pistol instead of a sword....
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Death Trail
Book - 164
HIDDEN TARGET Advance-Tech Arms supplies state-of-the art ammo and hardware to a client list that includes the world's most ruthless terrorists. Now, owner Gus Webster has something big going down, stockpiling enough arms to launch an invasion. ...
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Fire Sweep
Book - 165
PRIME EVIL U.S. officials suspect a conference in the Netherlands is a target for a terrorist attack. The area needs a preemptive strike and Mack Bolan is the man for the job. The key players are all in place: a defecting Czech physicist, a kin...
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Assassin's Creed
Book - 166
DESERT STORM Mack Bolan's soft probe into terrorist atrocities on Israel's West Bank goes hard courtesy of an American-grown Zionist group called the Samson Warriors. A growing embarrassment to the U.S. government, these extremists have brought th...
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Double Action
Book - 167
COLD WAR U.S. Intel has uncovered a plot to import a crack team of Mideast terrorists into the West. Mack Bolan is called into action to stop these renegades from unleashing unbridled terror in America's backyard. An initial strike at a Califor...
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Blood Price
Book - 168
SNAKE PIT Hoshab Nassim, a ruthless Mideast leader, is holding eight international hostages, one a top-level CIA operative. Soon there will be "trials" followed by "executions." In the language of terrorism, Mack Bolan knows this means torture and...
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White Heat
Book - 169
SAVAGE LAW Miami drug lord Antonio Espinosa wants to enter the Colombian big leagues via a ruthless Panamanian supplier. The DEA agent who discovers the plan is powerless to act and calls in an old friend from the Justice Department. Mack Bolan...
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Baja Blitz
Book - 170
MACK ATTACK Fifteen Mexicans are gunned down execution-style while making an illegal crossing at the California-Baja border. Horrified by the atrocity, Johnny Bolan calls in big brother Mack to probe the incident. Intel reveals the trigger men ...
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Deadly Force
Book - 171
Seven US citizens are abducted at gunpoint in Paris by an organization calling itself the Armenian People's Struggle. Mack Bolan is dispatched to France on a rescue mission with his only lead the terrorist believed to be the brains behind the atrocit...
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Fast Strike
Book - 172
BERLIN BURNOUT Germany is still raw from forty years of Cold War. But someone is turning up the heat by assassinating top German citizens int he streets of Berlin. Evidence suggests that a dirty covert war is being waged between the superpowers, f...
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Capitol Hit
Book - 173
D.C. DEATH ZONE Washington DC is rocked by sudden violence that's linked to a group of Vietnamese believed to have brought their freedom fight to American soil. But Mack Bolan's hard probe uncovers a conspiracy orchestrated by someone high up in t...
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Battle Plan
Book - 174
FIRST BLOOD The Baltic has become a powder keg, and the fuse is communist North Haakovia. Its egomaniacal leader has an arsenal of nuclear and chemical weapons and an elite cell of terrorists. Unless the U.S. acts quickly, Eastern Europe will fall...
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Battle Ground
Book - 175
BROTHERHOOD OF COURAGE Fighting has broken out in the Baltic and only U.S. involvement can avert World War III. Mack Bolan does double duty, protecting South Haakovia's new president and leading the country's defense against the onslaught by the N...
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Ransom Run
Book - 176
CHANGING FACE OF EVIL Easy money and fast living have made Italy's kidnapping industry one of the most profitable -- and bloody -- in the underworld. Sinistra, a deadly organization extorting ransom from the wealthy, has mutated into something bigger...
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Black Hand
Book - 178
TURKISH BLOODBATH A string of terrorist attacks against U.S. citizens in Turkey fuels America's demands for immediate action. The President orders Mack Bolan to eliminate the terrorist group called the Black Hand -- any way he can. Diplomatic r...
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War Hammer
Book - 179
LETHAL WEAPON When valuable high-tech weaponry components are stolen from a U.S. electronics company, an undercover Fed suspects a technician from the firm. But soon after filing his report the agent is found dead and the employee has vanished. Th...
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Force Down
Book - 180
JUNGLE WARFARE Forca Militar is a frontier army, spawned in a no-man's-land of murder, trafficking and kidnapping. Occupying major cities from Brazil to the Caribbean, its killer legions are now headed for America's shores. Mack Bolan's counte...
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Shifting Target
Book - 181
RISKY BUSINESS If Rosey Tosca can steal it, sell it or push it, he'll get a piece of it in Talville, Michigan. The small-time hood has turned major player in the flood of crime and corruption sweeping the nation. He's selling top-secret chemica...
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Lethal Agent
Book - 182
UNFRIENDLY PERSUASION Driven by revenge, an ex-Soviet major is staging a strike against Afghanistan. His weapon of choice is a deadly nerve gas, concocted at the jungle base of a Laotian drug lord. Local CIA agents don't want any interference, ...
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Clean Sweep
Book - 183
KEYS TO DEATH A storm is brewing in Florida, involving the Romanian secret police, Castro's hardmen and the U.S. Mob. Key West is Mack Bolan's target of operations, where a stricken Romanian freighter holds the key to the mission. Sixty million...
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Death Warrant
Book - 184
TO KILL A KINGPIN Uzi-toting drug smugglers surprise and slaughter members of a DEA-led Special Forces RAT mission. And somewhere on the face of the earth, a gorgeous informant is counting her blood money while a sadistic drug lord called Rocha is...
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Sudden Fury
Book - 185
OUT OF BUSINESS The Colombians are moving into Jamaica and the U.S. asks Mack Bolan to shut down the operation. Bolan's mission goes sour from the start with a welcoming barrage of autofire and a gift of murdered DEA agents. The enemy is formid...
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Fire Burst
Book - 186
STOKING THE FLAMES The presence of neo-Nazis among Arab guerrillas at the Iraqi-Jordanian frontier indicates a sinister terrorist clique in the making and puts Washington on red alert. Mack Bolan hits the streets of Los Angeles, gunning for a para...
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Cleansing Flame
Book - 187
FIRES OF HATRED Washington has hard Intel linking Iraqi terrorists and white supremacists -- fanatics whose common agenda is hatred of Israel and the U.S. Mack Bolan's opening blitz In L.A. scattered American neo-Nazis, and now he's tracking his q...
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Killing Range
Book - 190
BLOOD LUST South Africa's White Wolves are working overtime to reinstate apartheid's brutal code--with a racial bloodbath as their goal and terrorism as their means. But Mack Bolan is hitting the White Wolves where they live, spreading a loud an...
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Extreme Force
Book - 191
BIRD OF PREY An elusive weapons lord known as the Vulture is one of the world's most wanted arms dealers--supplying a full range of killing devices to anyone who considers the U.S. an enemy. Mack Bolan's hard probe begins stateside and takes hi...
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Maximum Impact
Book - 192
PERIL IN PARADISE Carib Command is a powerful cartel of traffickers and terrorists with a campaign to plunge the tiny Caribbean islands of St. Andreas into chaos. With American lives at stake, Mack Bolan hunts the enemy from back alleys to wate...
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Hostile Action
Book - 193
FLASHPOINT A humanitarian aid agency in Europe is being used as a front to smuggle arms into a drought-ridden African nation on the brink of starvation. Mack Bolan's hunt begins in Rotterdam, where a grim play of cross and double-cross deals th...
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Deadly Contest
Book - 194
CLEAN SWEEP The island of New Amsterdam is fast becoming a major drug depot, money laundry and haven for criminals -- the effort of a Colombia-Cuba alliance. Elections are approaching, and the cartel wants its man in power. The opposition badly...
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Select Fire
Book - 195
THE WILD HUNT An assassin known as the Huntsman is plying his lethal skills across the globe. Mack Bolan has taken down the killer--twice--only to have him resurface in another part of the world. Arms deals, counterfeit currency and the eerie,...
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Armed Force
Book - 197
MORTAL WOUNDS His name is Alexander De Moray. Ex-Special Forces, ex-CIA and prototype of the Huntsman, an army of stone killers created by hypnosis and brainwashing. Arms industrialist Hayden Thone has unleashed his immortal enforcers who are p...
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Shoot Down
Book - 198
TARGET ACQUISITION The Golden Triangle's most powerful drug lord is protecting his poppy empire with the Yak-14113, a formidable jet fighter also known as the Freehand. Mack Bolan and air ace Jack Grimaldi CI are sent to take out the deadly air...
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Rogue Agent
Book - 199
SPECTER OF DOOM Novichok-5, the most lethal chemical weapon in existence, is on the global auction block. And the world's terrorists are bidding for the prize -- and the right to commit genocide. Mack Bolan joins the race to stop the chemical f...
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Crisis Point
Book - 200
THE ULTIMATE CONSPIRACY An elite clique in the U.S. military is conspiring against an Administration that they believe has weakened America's armed forces. Using Middle East terrorists as triggermen, they unleash a wave of atrocities to alert the ...
Series Premise
The Executioner series follows Mack Bolan as he conducts high-intensity solo missions against powerful enemies. Each book features a new target and mission, blending intense action with Bolan’s personal code of justice.
The Executioner Series Reading Order
🟡 Mostly Standalone · Start Anywhere
Mostly standalone stories with recurring characters in a shared setting.
The Executioner series does not need to be read in order. Each book tells a complete story with its own resolution. Continuity is limited to recurring characters and the shared world of Bolan’s ongoing war. Reading the books out of order does not cause confusion, as there are no overarching plots or cliffhangers connecting the volumes.
Explanation of reading order types
The Executioner Series Characters
Mack Bolan is the central protagonist, a lone warrior known as the Executioner. Supporting characters include occasional allies from his past military days or government contacts, with new characters introduced in each mission.
Setting of the The Executioner Series
The series spans locations around the globe, from American cities and Mafia strongholds to international hotspots where Bolan carries out his operations.
Tone & Themes of the The Executioner Series
The tone is gritty, fast-paced, and action-driven. Core themes include justice, vengeance, military honor, and one man’s fight against corruption and evil.
Is the The Executioner Series Worth Reading?
This series appeals to readers who enjoy classic men’s adventure stories, high-octane action, lone-hero vigilante plots, and military-style thrillers.
Content Warnings and Heat Level
This is an action thriller series with high violence, combat descriptions, and occasional strong language. Sexual content is generally mild.
The Executioner series follows Mack Bolan as he delivers justice to criminals and terrorists worldwide. With its self-contained missions and consistent protagonist, it allows flexible reading. Don Pendleton’s creation of a relentless one-man army defines this long-running action series.
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