Tropic Heat

Must admit I struggled to get to the end on this one not because it is so bad but it just seemed to go on and on. The story and action are okay but the crap you have to wade through to get to the gems is somewhat slow at times. Couple of interesting characters introduced in the hit man and the (good) DEA guy but it amazed me that both of these guys take shots to the shoulder not sure if it was the same shoulder? Now the DEA guys wound happens I think four days prior to the finale where the hit man happens the day prior. From then on during the final phase of the title a great deal is made of the DEA guy's wound helping him up a ladder and down a rope to mention a few but I guess the hit man is the man of steel as he is the one who does the assisting. The plot has been well and truly flogged to death sure this is an earlier title and cannot be tossed into that lot but the drug baron is going to be taken out. This time I thought he was purely an effeminate insane drug addict and it amazed me why one of his lieutenants hadn't taken him out and taken over the empire saving Mack the time. Couple of stars added here for a very fine piece of writing within a prison cell where Mack is being held and the Indian who is placed into the cell as well and what results. Excellent reading. So long story which includes one brilliant bit of writing which probably justifies the reading of the title. Go on read it you will enjoy the prison cell section.

As earlier reviws have stated this book is very difficult to get through. The narrative is dense and distracting. The author spends FAR too long explaining things that have absolutely nothing to do with the story making the fast paced scenes dull and the slow paced scenes torturous. The story is luke warm at best. These books should be fast paced and punchy and Tropic Heat clearly is not. As an interesting aside for any Stephen King fans. I live in Maine and got this book second hand from a used book store and it is stamped from the Derry Public Library. Creeeeepy.

This is a book that sticks to the action all the way through, Not the most memorable Bolan books, but it kept me entertained enough to get through what is probably the largest Bolan story ever written.

This book was one of the toughest Bolan's to get through. It read like a Miami Vice marathon. There is a briefing early in the novel about a task force Brognola sets up, but then all but one or two of the people in the breifing disappear and are never seen from again. The enitre novel is filled with these inconsistencies. The drug theme was probably very cutting edge in 1987, but it does not seem to have held up well since then. The Mob connection seems almost an afterthought, and remains unressolved at the end of the book. This is a weak entry. Avoid wasting you time and skip this one.

WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE FIGHT SCENE BETWEEN BOLAN AND THE TALL MEXICAN SENT TO KILL HIM IN THE PRISON, I DIDN'T REALLY LIKE THIS BOOK THAT MUCH.

A hell of a good read. This was the book that introduced me to the world of the executioner and i was hooked ever since. It still is a personal favorite of mine.

A decent entry from McDade. Probably better than his later SB's.