Termination Point

The massive Executioner story Four Horseman, finally concludes with Termination Point. The cult is not done despite their setbacks, and now they are turning to capturing some nuclear warheads off a b-2 aircraft, intending to wreak destruction on Washington DC. This is an entertaining series of events, more cult members in key positions are revealed, as well as finally getting around to the Apollo character introduced earlier in the trilogy. A good portion of the book deals with this threat, then the Icarus and Apollo villains take center stage. Another excellent series of events regarding the crazy plot involving Apollo's assassination attempt, and Icarus's crazy attack on camp David. Meanwhile Bolan and Grimaldi are in the thick of it. Great reading here, but at this point the book has really already reached its climax, as the rest of the story is pretty much just a brief conclusion. The finale to the whole trilogy is lacking in punch, I was expecting much more. The ending in Cloud of Death was excellent, but nothing at that level happens in this book. What major villains remain after Bolan's action thus far are gathered at the final compound, but not really a final grand slam ending takes place. Bolan has a good rescue of the children of the cult members, but there is really no confrontation with Apollo nor the cult leaders themselves. Although this portion of the story fell a little flat, this is still an entertaining read, just not as good as the other two books in the trilogy. Overall, the Four Horseman is an excellent addition to the series and I'm glad I got around to reading it.

Nup couldn't get into this trilogy at all. The attacks on the Russian President were okay and I accept how he survived but the cult enemy group was well pretty wishy washy and the Big Guy doesn't even get to give them the flick as they off themselves before he gets there. Disappointing read from me not recommended.

Awful. There was so much room here to be better. I think when u set out to do a trilogy the third is always expected to be the most explosive and informative. You expect part 3 to tie up all loose ends and reveal something from the beginning you never knew. None of this happened. In fact, this book was padded with so much senseless killing and nonsense that it felt like it could have been edited down to a pamphlet. Awful.

This was an overall good ending to the trilogy, but, as others have pointed out, the ending was anticlimatic. I also would have preferred that Bolan and The Two had an encounter of some sort at the end. That and Cerberus should have faced off with Mack. A good story, though, despite the things mentioned above.

I really wanted to love this book. I loved the first two books in the trilogy--the first for its emphasis on plot and intrigue over action, and the second for continuing the intrigue, upping the stakes and presenting us with characters we actually cared about. This third bok isn't bad--it's just not nearly what it could have and should have been. I understand why Newton had the Two die the way they did, ut it left the ending anticlimactic for me. We especially should've seen them die more ... interesting ... deaths given the amount of development they received in this book. Terry said it best: in this book, Bolan battles faceless opponents, whereas in the other two he was battling opponents who'd actually been developed and who could make or break his mission. This is only the second Bolan trilogy I've read, the first being the Power Trilogy by Chuck Rogers. So far, both trilogies suffer from the same fate, though this one fairs better than the Power Trilogy did. The third bok in both trilogies was lacking over the frist two. "Vengeance Rising," the third book in the Power Trilogy, was just an all-out body count. As I said, "Termination Point" fairs better, but it still is pale by comparison to what led up to it. Still, the battle with the Cobra helicopter *was* awesome!

I would have to disagree. I think this one was the best of the three. I especially like the detail on Hermes & Circe in this one.

This final installment in this so-so trilogy was the weakest book of the three. It seemed that the author wasn't quite sure how he wanted it to end, so he dragged it out. The ending was a big letdown. A three book superbolan trilogy should have had a much bigger finale. I hope the next three book superbolan trilogy has a more explosive storyline.

While I would rather read the trilogy in order, I will agree that this one was not what I had expected it to be, especially since the cover seemed to jump out and explode in my face. (This actually is one my favorite covers since the end of the Gil Cohen Days.) This was 340 pages of 'wrapping it up' for Bolan, and I don't think that that is such a good plotline that can be expanded to 340 pages. It just wears thin. I really think that Mike was stretching it with this one. Especially the way everything seemed to fall Bolan's way in locating the cult. Once might have been believable, but (and correct me wrong on this) three times it a little much. The end too, it wasn't the big explosive finish that it could have been and should have been. He a)should have personally seen to The Two's execution, and b)wrecked some real havoc himself. That would have somewhat satified me. I may even decide to sharpen up on my writing skills in writing an alternative ending to it for the Fanfac page, but don't count on it.

I found this book to be a letdown in the trilogy. I thought the trilogy was going full steam until I hit this book. I think a lot of the personal side of the vendetta was removed and while the stakes were higher in this one, I found it more of an empty battle. Bolan wasn't battling face-to-face with people he gained hte trust of anymore - they were just faceless cultists. I think it could have ended with the second book quite easily. It was an explosive ending. In this one, I did think the helicopter duel with pretty awesome though. Otherwise, skip it.

I read two-thirds of the trilogy in one day, so it's probably more my fault that I think that the trilogy was incredibly long. I wasn't entirely sure the third book was necessary, especially considering the way the bad guys were dealt with. On the whole, the book (and the trilogy) had several good spots, but if I read the trilogy again, I'll probably read #65 before I read the other two.