Terrible Tuesday

Well so far the last mile has been some pretty good reads. Hope it keeps up. Onlybthing I didnt like was april getting captured again. I hope this pattern doesn't continue. I did like April's actions at the end. Pretty solid read. 8 stars

Tuesday's action and book was much better than Monday's. I truly enjoyed Terrible Tuesday. For Day 2 of Bolan's last week, he returns to California and addresses an interesting problem. He also has a reunion with former characters from early in the series, and the relationship between Mack-Hal and Mack-April continue to develop. The result: a phenomenal book that is 9+ in my mind. Apparently after Mack destroyed the CA mob early on, there were remnants being rebuilt and Bolan intended to take them down permanently before going to the Feds. The mafia, local political leaders, the local police, and Hal & team all play an important role in this one, and Pendleton did a tremendous job tying it all together. Factor in a kidnapping of Mack's love for the 2nd consecutive day and Terrible Tuesday has everything needed for a action/adventure thriller. Finally, Pendleton gives several high-impact action sequences and a great ending to cap of this great book.

Day two of the final week and back to the California problem. The real battle had been fought here. And there had been no truly effective Mob movements in the area since the fall of Julian DiGeorge. Until now. And . . . now . . . well, now it seemed that someone had found a new handle and was busily rebuilding the crime machine. Bolan's immediate task—to be accomplished in a matter of mere hours—was to find that handle, tear it loose, and dismantle the new machine. It was not an enviable task .. . but it was the one at hand, the only game in town for Mack Bolan. Initially the Big Guy has a major problem getting around the depth of the new concept being hatched here and when it is finally revealed the extent of the scheme is overwhelming. Being able to eavesdrop on any source of communication world wide would obviously have massive consequences to not only Governments but Big business also would be willing to pay big bucks to not have their sensitive information made known. Huge advances in the relationship between April and the Big Guy in this title leading to after only two days of knowing each other they are deeply in love with each other. April is captured by the Bad guys again and has to be rescued which is tedious and one can only hope that it is the last time that happens in the next four titles. Terrific ending where after the location of the concept is levelled the Big Guy on a hunch follows it to where the number one Bad guy is located supposedly killed and rectifies that oversight with a little help from April. Again highly recommended reading.

As close to a perfect Executioner book as one is likely to find. That's the only way to describe day two of Bolan's wrap up operation. This one has loads of action, a threat that is more real today than it was back in the late 70s and with all of that, Pendleton still has room for great detours into characterization. I find myself checking the page count while reading this one because so much story is packed into the standard length that I thought I was reading an excellent SuperBolan! Not a paragraph is wasted. Mack and April expressed their love. Mack, at one point, is consumed with doubt over his mission and what the government has in store for him. Brognola worries for both of them. And so on. Great character moments peppered around great action. My only knock against this one is that April gets kidnapped again. As she had been kidnapped in the last book, this was not quite so well received by this reader. Of course, Mack's rescue is a thing of beauty without a drop of blood spilled. This is one of the best Executioners I've read to date.

this one continues the blitz very well, the action and the tension are maintained throughout.

The second mission in Mack Bolan's "second mile" against the mafia, his wrap-up to the mafia wars, finds him in foggy Los Angeles to sniff out the California Concept. The action begins with a hit and rescue, continues when Bolan thwarts a mob hit and takes the heat to the survivors in their lair, takes out a mob front security office and a staging area. The big action scene here is The Executioner's penetration and hit of the center of the new mob thrust. Good detailed account of Bolan's move into the area though the account of the hit itself is a bit short. April Rose gets a little deeper into the man and his war, and he finds himself falling in love with her. She complicates his thinking and his mission but seems to be on her way to being a good partner. This one had a good deal of action but only the big penetration episode was truly memorable for me, the rest being good solid Pendleton average. Still damn good stuff though! There was some attempt to get a little into the big guy's head using April Rose but the scene of her reading from his copy of Don Quixote just didn't click for me. I actually found myself wondering if Don needed to boost his word count for the editor. This one wasn't quite up to what I enjoyed in the previous story but it was a good read. All things considered I thought this book gave me a good 8 stars worth of reading entertainment. And that's not too shabby.

IT WAS COOL. I ALWAYS WONDERED WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO CHARLIE RICKERT AND I GUESS I FOUND OUT.

Like Monday, it was just an okay read.