SuperBolan · #108

Path to War

by Dan Schmidt · May 2006

3.6 / 10 average from 5 rated reviews

tomping Grounds. War for sole ownership of blood-soaked Angola has begun, but now the ruthless shadow hand is a cabal of former CIA-DOD top operatives calling themselves Phoenix Consortium. Backed by millions in stolen black funds, the goal is a new world order, gained by control of the world's oil and diamond monopolies. It's a despotic vision that requires partnerships in the right places: the North Koreans willing to trade suitcase nukes for a piece of the new world order; Arab fanatics willing to buy into any kind of war that guarantees spilled American blood; and an army of former special ops mercs with no loyalties. It's an agenda of human savagery at its worst, unleashed by traitors to the country they pledged to serve. And it deserves nothing less than justice at the hands of Mack Bolan.

Reviews (5)

ice_cracked 2/10 October 20, 2010

Goodness me coupled with #98 and #100 I can't understand why the author didn't release these three as a trilogy. They are all the same story and plot line. Well if you like reading these titles where in this Super Bolan series the Big Guy doesn't actually feature all that much as we have massive amounts of characters to introduce and massive amounts of damage to describe and heaps of body parts and blood being described with no actual storyline or plot then this is for you. I reckon this title was about as exciting as watching paint dry.

Gunslinger 3/10 October 17, 2009

I'm afraid I have to agree with everyone else. This was one monstrosity of a book. Like with a few of Schmidt's other stinkers, it was a book of excesses. The violence was off the chart. There were too many characters to keep track of, much less care about. I'd call this a Super Villain book, for the fact that Bolan would disappear for pages on end and the bad guys would get most of the coverage. The one cool aspect was Bolan lugging around a mini-gun and laying waste to the evil-doers. But, even that wasn't done all that well. Had higher hopes for this one.

Eh Kay 6/10 December 27, 2006

I really liked most of this book, but it was the ending I really didn't get, I know they were trying something different, but I just didn't buy it. Other than that I thought it had some real cool inteligent villains and some good action scenes. Overall it was an OK.

Larry Wilson 2/10 May 19, 2006

I did not even finish this one. The new shipment of books arrived and I shelved it. This book seemed to forget Bolan and add him in later on. I lost track of the players several times and had to re-read sections if I put the book down for a few days. I have no urge to pick this book up again . Not a good read at all. Just my opinion.

David K. 5/10 April 24, 2006

This book was a wreak that not only was waiting to happen it did. 1. Too many charcters doing too many things in bit parts. 2.Sometimes I didn't only know where the Phoenix Consortium was I didn't know where Bolan was. 3.Many of the scences could have been pared down or elimanted. If all the corrections were made it could have been a decent SuperBolan. The only scence I liked was when Baraka finds the nuclear suitcase and says "tell the consurtium we found there bomb." I give this book 5 stars