Tightrope

Well I thought this was just a fair read in the series. Likes: There is a very good conspiracy plot storyline which runs throughout the title which will keep you intrigued and likely surprise you in a couple of spots (well it did me anyhow). One section near the finish features the big guy being dropped 30 - 40 k's from the launching site into the arctic tundra and his travels there. Fine reading and when he slips into the frozen creek and how he survives is well why we love him. The MI6 female agent's inclusion in the story was excellent especially what happens with her at the end. Dislikes: Huge cast to try to remember and with the majority of them having somewhat long obscure names I found it very difficult to remember who was who. Distinct lack of action scenes and the ones included were only average nothing new here at all. Major dislike: The ending is laughable, picture this the consortium who has on numerous occasions tried to kill him during the title including some of the actual trigger persons all sit down in a comfortable living room and everybody starts sprouting out with glee what parts they played in the conspiracy who tried to kill who, who wanted who to be killed etc. to the big guy who calmly asks pertinent questions (so that anyone who has just read the title will know what actually bloody happened I'm guessing) and I'm thinking will somebody please pull out a gun so we can get this over with and finally someone does and we do. So after all that I didn't particularly like this one lots of much better stuff out there in these series but there are also a lot vastly worse. Up to you.

I have never been a fan of Carl Furst, and this novel has been sitting on my shelves for some 19 years, unread. So I was quite surprised when reading it on vacation by how much it exceeded my low expectations. It is more of a espionage novel than a normal novel, the few fire fights did seem to be tacked on, but I had the feeling that the author was trying to emmulate a Robert Ludlum adventure than copy a regular Bolan mission. There are lots of European locations - I found the Dutch locations to be particulary good - and the entire mission takes about a month, which allows plenty of time for travel and recovey from wounds. The novel hasn't aged well, it is set firmly in the Cold War, lots of borders between countries (including an inaccurate one between Belgium and Holland) and Check Point Charlie is mentioned several times. There is a massive cast of characters, sometimes too many, I did keep forgeting which Sir Humphrey was which, and which Italian was which. Sometimes the author confused Bolan with a regular FBI/CIA type agent. Several times there was mention of characters that Bolan had 'put away' and Bolan even bumped into one of these jail birds in Amsterdam. I can only out it down to Furst's unfamiliarity with the character. But on the whole I enjoyed it. Well done, Carl Furst.

This one is pretty good, there is a lot of conspiracy in this novel, not a whole lot of gun battles, but a complex plot with a big cast of characters. This is the way a Superbolan should be, it had more depth than a regular size book, with a little, but not too much padding. Carl Furst did a good job, and he seems to have a decent grasp of the Bolan character. The things keeping this from a 9 star rating are that Furst isn't gifted at writing action scenes sometimes, I thought they could have been done better, and with more descriptive detail. All in all this book was a great read, it is worth tracking this one down.

Bolan is out to stop terrorists from destabilizing the world. Bombings and assassinations have become common enough in Europe that Brognola calls in Bolan to stem the rising tide of terror. However, something bigger is going on, and Bolan must decipher the clues to prevent a catastrophe. This book had some sections that were excellent. Bolan hiking through the arctic circle was fantastic, 10-star writing. Unfortunately, the whole book couldn't sustain that writing level. There were other parts that were just too coincidental, too fortunate to believe. Likewise, the ending, where the entire villainous staff meets and tell Bolan every plot they had while he acts like Hercule Poirot was just to incredulous to be believed. Good book, decent plot, but highly varied writing style. When in good, its great, but when its bad, its lousy.

awsome book ending was unexpected. p.s 93-r the gu does look like bolan

This was a decent one. I enjoyed the action in it and the ending blew me away. Is it just me or does the guy on the cover of the book with the suit, tie ,& glasses look like Bolan?

DEFINATELY ONE OF THE BEST SUPERBOLAN BOOKS AROUND!!!

This was just an average book. The scene where he was strafing the MIG with an Uzi was the most memorable part.