Executioner · #444

Dark Saviour

by Mike Newton · November 2015

9.0 / 10 average from 2 rated reviews

A key witness in a money-laundering case gets cold feet before testifying and flees to a monastery in the Sierra Nevadas. But the cartel behind the scheme isn't about to let someone with that kind of information escape unharmed, and they dispatch hit men into the mountains. Mack Bolan, tasked with protecting the witness, barely reaches the Sierras ahead of the cartel killers. With an epic winter storm raging, Bolan will need to combine his combat and survival skills to prevent the thick monastery walls from becoming a prison. He can't control the weather, but with the monks fighting beside him, the Executioner is prepared to unleash a deadly blizzard of his own on the enemy.

Reviews (2)

Matthew Wyatt 9/10 January 2, 2023

The story is simple. Good guys want a guy alive and bad guys want the guy dead. Bolan is called in. I love it when Bolans part of the missions are in one days time. Extra characters are brought in, which always makes the rating go up for me, when Jack needs to fly Bolan in. The action is fast and makes since. The snow storm scene is a good part of the story. Really like how the last merc was finished by Bolan, calm and smooth and simple yet tense. Spoiler- The bad guy is holding the â€˜packageâ€™ hostage. While having a conversation with the bad Bolan just shoots him. Recommend this one.

Jonathan 9/10 December 12, 2019

Wow! Me giving a Mike Newton a 9. A well deserved 9 as well. This story (the cover is slightly misleading as the 'cartel' are not the usual Columbians or drug dealing gangs but three board room bankers) is very different from the normal copy and paste fair and how I wish Mike Newton could have written more stories like this one. The adventure has more of a Die Hard/Under Siege feel to it as Bolan is more or less trapped in a winter storm in a cold monastery as a international team of mercenaries move in to eliminate the witness and all the monks. Bolan parachutes out of a plane into the heart of the storm, gets stuck in a tree then trudges through waist deep snow to reach the monastery. I must also give a shout out to the mercenaries as all of them were interesting characters, not cardboard cut-outs for Bolan to shoot. The only reason for keeping the book from being a 10 is that the ending is rather rushed and leaves a number of loose ends, I really wanted to know about the aftermath of the battle at the monastery but that was lost to a sniper sequence where Bolan is suddenly and jarringly in New York mere hours after the battle. But I really do recommend this book.