Precision Kill

Again I am swimming against the tide with this one. The moniker The Executioner should be removed and replaced by The Blunderer. I lost track of the number of times that Bolan was caught by regular thugs and stripped of his weapons. I think he lost enough to supply an army. To add insult to injury Bolan is again caught off guard by one of the German assassin's even though Bolan is described as having super dooper reflexes and hearing and instincts....despite being caught flatfooted throughout the rest of the book. Later in the story we learn that a slob of a drug lord wants to assassinate POTUS. Upon learning of the drug lord's location Bolan is dropped 26 miles away and spends 2 days trapsing through a jungle. HALO, anyone? Phoenix and Able don't get mentioned, in fact Stony Man is barely existent, so there is no using them. Bolan destroys the drug lord, and flies back to the USA from Mexico only to learn that Brognola is sitting on the information of the location of the Wizard. There is no surveillance set up, Brogola is just waiting for Bolan, and when the Wizard nearly escapes again, there are not even road blocks. The Wizard is so important to everyone yet no effort is being put into capturing or killing him. The two German assassin's were okay, but I couldn't figure out why they would work for such a pathetic arms dealer. So I didn't like this story at all. Two asides - it is a Fine ToothED comb, not a tooth comb. Sheesh. And I bought this book new a long time ago. The acid in the cover is so bad that the inside turned yellow and the cover started to break away from the book. Poor quality back then, I guess.

Bolan has many locations where he must go in this book to finish his mission. It didn’t matter if he was in Jamaica, Mexico, Chicago, Miami, Pennsylvania, or other locations, there was always something new for him to do, and the reading was always compelling. I liked the multiple villains in this book, the main villain called the Wizard, the secondary villains Gunther and Katya, and others, made the story interesting and fun. The high tech defenses the Wizard set up at his bases was a cool new challenge for Bolan, and old skills were needed as well with the jungle trek in Mexico, and I loved the scenes in the everglades and the sea in Florida. Excellent characters all throughout this story, the Irish gangsters in Chicago, the German assassins, Trask’s henchmen, the Mexican druglords, Bolan’s allies in Jamaica, and others made this an excellent nonstop action thriller worthy of a super sized Bolan adventure. This is a better book than the author’s first super Bolan Shock Tactic, which I enjoyed also. Makes me look forward to more titles from this author.

Absolutely loved this one. The villian is a computer/engineering genius who is being courted by terrorist groups the world over as he produces a weapon and way of deploying it via bombs or missiles etc. which never fails to take out the intended target. The Big Guy enters the fray when the DEA office building is targeted by one of these weapons and destroyed along with many agents. At the same time trying not to give too much away a couple of freelance assassins namely a drop dead gorgeous blonde and her sidekick a sicko who has a penchant for garottes which he makes extensive use of throughout the title are dispatched to in fact kidnap the villian. Add in a drug lord who was the client of the DEA building massacre and there are many fine plotlines running simultaneously. Many many many fine sections of action scenes featuring the Big Guy probably when he is captured and taken on a boat and also the assault on the Island location of the villian with the Jamaican police are the standouts but many others like the trek to the new drug lord's fortress under construction which will certainly keep you awake if you read this. The build up to the ending and the actual ending does not disappoint in any way and when you finish this I would think you would be very happy with an engrossing story which features many many original ideas. Highly recommended reading in these series.

Average story that started out with a WTC-like bombing of the DEA offices. Liked the two killers who gave Bolan a run for his money, but I guess I don't like the idea of a "wizard" character who hides out for most of the book. And his identity is never really a surprise. But, the scenes where Bolan took on an "obstacle course" of booby traps was fairly tense, and his escape (twice) from getting captured was also tense. Kind of hard to not give it a 6, but I like Bolan dealing with real live bad guys, and not some silly guy playing games.

Nice handling of what might otherwise have been a routine story. I liked the way the author built up suspense as Bolan closed in on the Wizard.

This one starts out pretty typical but increasingly gets hotter. In precision kill Mack is tracking the Wizard. And eventually finds him. He also has to go through his many defenses. Like a SWAT robat with a four barrell machine gun that could fire up to 12000 rounds per minute. And it's not a typo it twelve thousand rounds per minute. He also has to dodge two trained killers. And he almost looses on this one.