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Dead Easy (Mack Bolan)

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This book from Fall, 1986, was issued directly after Flight 741 in a new line from Gold Eagle books, known as Super Bolans. Dead Easy is Super Bolan #6 and represented Gold Eagle's attempt to give Executioner series dedicated readers new and much larger books about Mack Bolan. Many readers not monthly readers of The Executioner series feel these Super Bolans are too long, while dedicated readers to the series enjoy the chance to have the Bolan plots enlarged. These types of books are still in the Gold Eagle line appearing as Mack Bolan or Stony Man books, while the regular size monthly Executioner series continues along side of these super books which have more pages.

In this Super Bolan 6, "a high speed train races across the Italian countryside on the overnight run from Rome to Vienna". An early morning explosion rocks and wrecks the train causing 60 deaths. At the bottom is a KGB-Mafia plot to eventually wreck the economy of America. As usual Mack Bolan is there to battle terroism in his dedicated crusade of good against evil.

If you have read any of the Gold Eagle books you will know what to expect, but should you not be familiar with the vast number of Gold Eagle books from the 1980s right down through today, this book may offer a reading change where men's adventure is concerned. There are several hundred of these Super Bolans in print today! So they are certainly popular with most readers who take them in hand.

Semper Fi.

"The Executioner" murders terrorists, saves kidnapped damsels from evil African dictators and wipes out a drug cartel in this completely hackneyed and predictable exercise in action genre writing (or typing). Some of these things can be crisply written and fun to read, but this thing, at about 370 pages, is at least 100, probably 200, pages too long.

I love good pulp, but this is bad pulp. Try some Richard Stark to see how it's done: terse, brutal, intelligent.