Treason Play

by Tim Tresslar · October 2011

6.0 / 10 average from 2 rated reviews

The disappearance of an American journalist in Dubai raises red flags in Washington's covert sectors. The man was a deep cover CIA agent tracking weapons smuggling. When his tortured corpse turns up, Mack Bolan jumps into action, racing to stop the launch of a nuke somewhere in the Middle East. This time, the masterminds aren't the usual suspects. The men behind the conspiracy are Soviet high rollers, rogue players using money, influence and politics to hack off America's long arm in the region and revive Russia's superpower status. Bolan lights fires throughout the region's criminal underbelly, setting his sights on the Pakistani crime lord smuggling the Russian nuke across borders. Leaving a scorched earth calling card for the traitorous British national who brokered the deal, Bolan delivers a death warning to enemies investing in the carnage of innocents: payback is coming in blood.

Reviews (2)

Jonathan 6/10 September 9, 2025

A 6.5 from me. It was a generic adventure and a little bland. A journalist (who happens to be a CIA spy) is killed and this upsets the USA so much that Bolan is sent in to investigate using bullets. Baddies want to detonate a Red Mercury nuclear bomb (a substance that does not exist) in Mumbai for...reasons and Bolan has to stop it. He is joined by Jack Grimaldi and for some reason Leo Turrin who is now a commando (why this character and not a member of Phoenix or Able?). And of course they work their way up the ladder killing every villain they meet. The locations were Dubai, Mumbai, and the villains lair in Costa Rica. The name Dubai could be substituted with Chicago and no one would be any wiser. There was no local description, not even a mention of the tallest building in the world which Tom Cruise was climbing when this book was written. All so generic and I was happy that I eventually finished it - it took nearly a week.

Gunslinger 6/10 July 22, 2014

A complicated plot involving many different factions peddling nuclear material is what drives this one. It did have its share of good action scenes, with Turrin and Grimaldi along for the ride in the end. Sometimes I was questioning whether Bolan would say some of the things he said, but Tresslar has always been solid with the character. So, a pretty good read...close to a 7.