Ballistic Force

Although I totally agree with the other reviews about the ending being a bit sudden & seemed to be rushed,my main problem with this story was the abysmal editing where lots of words seemed to be missed out.I found myself having to constantly re-read passages before I could get the gist of what the author meant.I know that I am a few years late with this comment,but I live in England have only recently hit on Amazon to buy my books.Prior to this I had to rely on whenever my local bookstore could obtain copies,so I am catching up with everybody else.

Another good story that plodded along in typical Renauld-fashion. I found there to be too many characters to keep track of (it was hard to follow who was who with the Korean ones)but the narrative was decent. When the action came, it was a few shots here and there and then back to the plodding. There was a fairly cool chase on the Colorado River with Jet-ski's, but this one overall was definitely a slower read.

This would have to be one of the better titles in this series which will give you some fine reading indeed where the storyline is HUGE but beautifully written where even with a bucket load of characters introduced you will slide through reading this with ease. Lots of good action scenes and a blast which would rate a ten except for. Jayne Bahn would NEVER have been allowed to tag along. Cowboy is a computer expert and Akira is all of a sudden a commando? Probably the biggest turn off for me was the misfiring gun at the end which was a cop out I reckon. None the less a fine read especially if you don't know the characters all that well.

I found this story to be overhyped, unfortunately. It could have been, and should have been, much better, but Bolan's side of the story just seemed so drawn out that that it actually became boring. The good first. I liked all of the Korean characters. Renauld did a good job in fleshing them all out - although I somethimes got lost with the unfamiliar names - and the only disappointment was not finishing the stories of Prync, Dahn and Park. But the rest was good reading. The not so good. Jayne Bahn. I could accept the way that she showed up in the begining of the story, but then she just tagged along, and I just cannot see how the FBI would allow a bounty hunter to become involved in their investigations (Bolan was using his fake Justice ID). That didn't seem right and spolied the story somewhat. The bad: Where as Renauld did a good job with his Korean characters, he messed up badly with the Stony Man regulars. Kissinger isn't just an arms expert, he is also a computer expert and fills in for Akira Tokaido at the computer stations. Clever guy! But then there is Akira himself. Yes he has been out in the field before, but never like this. He can now, apparently, do HALO jumps and hold is own when he leading, yes leading, a combat patrol of marines. My goodness! In fact, this Akira doesn't resemble the old Akira in any way what so ever. An imposter. The really bad: Editing. A couple of times Kissinger and Kurtzman changed places and identities. Kissenger was wounded when out playing with Mack, but to pinch Kurtzman's wheelchair is beyond a joke. What? The author became confused between the two (both begin with 'K') and the editors never noticed?? How is this possible? The impossible. The coincidences. Bolan just happens to stumble upon a gang that are directly liked to the bad guys in Korea who happen to kidnap Akira's cousin, whom Akira has never met but just happens to be visiting and...and...well there are several more coincidences and this is what brought the story down for me. That, and Akira's night time parachute jump into the jungle, and Kissinger in a wheelchair.

This was another good read. I blew through it fast, which, in my opinion, is a sure sign that it was a good Mack Bolan novel. I thought the characters were all well-rounded, the action tense, and the fact that a few good guys actually bought it was a nice plus. Made the story feel real and urgent. There were a couple of "conveniences" (like a pistol somehow misfiring at an opportune time), and the end did seem a little rushed and incomplete. But in the grand scheme, these were minor. I recommend this one highly.

Top-notch all-around, from the immediacy of the plot on through the settings, descriptions, characterizations and dialogue. Bolan logs a ton of frequent flyer miles taking on the bad guys from the West Coast all the way to North Korea with a few stops in between, and he resonates with the Mack we all know and love dating back to the Pendelton days. I liked the Jayne Bahn character, too, as she's a sassy, brassy gal who holds her own and has some good chemistry with Bolan without cutting into his feelngs for Barbara Price. The book seemed well-researched and thought out, with all the subplots eventually tying together while holding the reader's interest throughout. This is definitely one of the better entries in the series.

I agree with the other reviews mostly. This is a fun book with a lot of plot threads that don't collapse under their own weight. Having said that though, I have to take 2 stars off for the very lack luster climax. They raid the camp, shoot everybody instantly and then the book ends, there was no real final struggle. Oh well, still a fun time.

I had to double-check the copyright date on this one because it seemed so timely with what's going on in North Korea at the moment. It was great the way all of the subplots were threaded through and tied up at the end, with lots of top-notch action sequences coupled with great character and dialogue passages. I thought the whole idea of using Propaganda Village as a site for the misiles was far-fetched until I actually did some research and saw just how plausible it all could be, which shows that the writer really must have done his homework and not just thrown something out there because it seemed clever. Mack is in top form here, too, globe-trotting from California to Nevada and finally making it to North Korea. There's an entertaining sidekick character, too, named Jayne Bahn, who Mack really connects with without betraying his allegiance to Brenda Price. All in all, one of the best books in this series that I've read.

I'll start with the negative - bad guys in california kill a buddy of a Stony Man agent - and now completely totaly unrelated on the other side of the Globe , purely by coincidence bad guys kidknap a relative of a Stony Man agent. Rather hard to buy .... BUT ... the rest of this book kicks butt !! This is way more of an ensemble cast of characters as Bolan takes a back seat, and barely fires a shot for like 200 pages, but man who cares ! This one kicked some serious butt - Eh Kay says - check it !

This was one awesome thrill ride, ping-ponging the reader back and forth between action in North Korea, Southern California and a casino city in Nevada. There's a real ripped-from-the-headlines feel to the story, which came across as a cut above the usual nuke bomb hijinks plots you find in a lot of these novels. I read this on a cross-country flight and was actually glad when I had a long layover between connecting flights because it game me time to get through it all in one reading. Highly recommended. I think it would make a great movie, too.