Killing Game

Well this title is hereby nominated as the most stupid plot of the series and there is no way any title could come close to this gem. Why you may ask, simply the main Bad Guy in this title has a thing against computers as you see they are taking over our lives. We can't allow Governments to access this power of the masses so he has to bring down the Internet and everything else controlling our lives by computers. But what is the main problem of the Bad Guy here? He can see Satan inside each and every machine and we can't have that so the title progresses. So power stations are going to fail airline flights are going to start dropping out of the sky etc. and this is good initially and the massive losses of life are also acceptable. In this title the author decided to go for "NAME THE WEAPON" as the amount of different weapons introduced passed the silly stage to enter the ridiculous stage. Rubbish and the title progresses and it turns out that the Bad Guy is going to bring down the Internet and all computer networks around the globe with his master virus. How you may ask and simply one of his cohorts in the media box is going to attach the SUPER VIRUS to a press release which is going to wipe out the worlds computers. And where is this SUPER VIRUS? In the Bad Guys pocket written on a piece of paper and he is going to give it to his cohort to attach to the last post out with the final score of the World Series.. Well Folks I openly admit I know nothing about weapons but having done quite a bit of the above, the above is laughable. The cohort will need at least a laptop computer with some sort of operating system installed with some sort of software compiling/writing capability where whatever was written on the paper machine language to assembler to any other programming language it would have to be entered and interpreted and then compiled into a executable program that could then be attached to the email. There is a very good character reintroduced namely the drop dead gorgeous blonde Russian one star added. There is a section in the title where the Big Guy and and spunky Russian Blonde chase the Bad Guy through a tunnel with a bucket load of lethal traps and a SHIT load of Rats which is excellent reading. one star added. The rest is ordinary folks this author has done much better than this. Not recommended at all.

As I've said many a time before, no one reads a Mack Bolan novel looking for high art. But even though that might seem like an insult, it's more of compliment directed toward the straightforward, action-oriented storytelling that brought us to the series in the first place. There does, however, have to be a minimum level of dedication to writing a good story, and that's lacking in KILLING GAME. Bolan novels that consist primarily of action scenes to the exclusion of plot development are rarely any good, and KILLING GAME is no exception. Set in France, it might as well be taking place in the Midwest for all the local detail you get. Moreover, the bits that glue the set pieces together are by turns pro forma and ridiculous. This time out Bolan is paired with recurring guest star Marynka Platinov for reasons that are never fully explicated, but she is poorly used. Anyone could have filled in the role of second gun in the shootouts that occur with metronomic regularity. It's a real disappointment.