Executioner · #261
Dawnkill
by Alan Philipson
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August 2000
8.5
/ 10 average from 11 rated reviews
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In an all-out war against drug lord Don Jorge Luis Samosa, Mack Bolan has brought down both the Mexican and Costa Rican arm of a powerful cartel. But the price of victory has been high: his friend's life is on the line.
The Don's power depends on the destruction of the U.S. government's drug interdiction fleet before it can blockade the sea smuggling routes. Samosa's plan to sink the prototype will turn the tide of the drug war back in his favor.
Bolan knows that if his friend is made and comes to harm, Samosa will have America and the Executioner as enemies.
It's the last thing he wants.
Reviews (11)
Easily the best book of the three, we have the conclusion to this trilogy, well done and it seems to imply at the end that there could be a sequel in the future. I am not sure if there is one or not, but I would want to read it.
There is quite a bit of excellent action sequences in this one, both from Bolan's and Brognola's scenes. I was expecting to see Grimaldi at some point, but that didn't happen.
An excellent trilogy here, there are some editorial gaffs, but they didn't take away from this action thriller. Definitely one of the better trilogies in this series.
Terrific title to finish the trilogy.
There are many many fine parts in this title and just to mention a few.
Right from the start of the title the shark attack on Mack.
The flat out sprint through the warehouse to place the C4 satchel.
The description of Brognola as a hostage, how the kids assist with the hacksaw to aid him in the escape.
The crashing of the hammer to three nails forehead during the escape was superbly done.
The description of Mack as he strives to get to Hal before he is killed.
Hals thoughts when he has no more bullets.
The attack on the boat.
Character descriptions and thoughts read nicely throughout the three titles of the trilogy.
I loved all three of the titles and highly recommend this trilogy to any reader of the series.
I hope this author decides to pop a few more antacid pills and write some more titles in this series rather than what he is writing for ...........???
The whole trilogy was great and this was a great wrap to it.Brognola comes the closest to going over the edge as we have ever seen. Ending kind of left us hanging,but hopefully we will get to see the Stony Men tangle with Don Jorge again.
I borrowed this one from the library so I didn't get a chance to read the first two parts of the Trilogy.
Still, I was able to catch on to most of what the storyline was about.
The best part of the book was how Brognola escapes from a hideous torture, all due to his toughness! It was also cool how both he and Mack kinda guessed that they were near each other due to the fact," with all that gunfire and explosions, it can only be so and so here to rescue me".
I'd say the best fight scene was at the end where Mack and the crew hands re-take the ship, but Sheesh, how come the
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Why oh why can't there be such a thing as a good 3rd book to a trilogy? Why?
I am combining comments for books 2 and 3 since both books really is one novel.
It seems obvious that this writer has read little Bolan books prior. Take the kidnapping of Hal. Why didn't Stony Man dispatch Able Team or PF? When the big boss is kidnapped and you sit on the news for 36 hours that is incredible. You pull out all your guns not just rely on Bolan. AT and FP must really have been doing something important to not be able to get pulled away - even 1 or 2 members.
The action scenes were way too long in books 2 and 3. The hit on the mansion with the gold in book 2 was 40 pages. Between the ship assault by Bolan and saving Hal was a good 70 pages combined.
Even the action scenes were a bit nonsensical. Its one thing for Mack to be ambushing and being faster then the other shooters but they were shooting back a lot and everyone missed. One scene he ducked while a stream of bullets went above him. Huh? No bullets went low? To much of Mack the invincible.
Why did this action lenght hurt the book? Unresolved issues. 660 pages and what happens to Samosa? He gets away with it. If this writer cut back on the action scenes by 10 pages per scene it would have an extra 40 pages. Enough to finish the story. Totally unforgivable for a trilogy. The premise of the story was to get Samosa and he gets away with it. If this was a regular writer - fine that may be acceptable. But for a writer who sems like he wrote
Also where was his desert eagle? And why didn't he bring some LAW's to battle when going after Hal? They would have helped. Usually he always has these weapons especially the desert eagle.
Some good parts were the boys perspective of the battle and Hal trying to talk to them. I even liked the scene where the female agent discovered who the boys dad was and Hal trying to figure out what to do.
This was an awesome book. I loved the way it was left open at the end. I hope that somebody will get around to finishing it. I haven`t read many Mack Bolan books yet, but this book and the Trilogy were the best I`ve read so far. I hope you enjoy it.
Nice one but i don't think on of the best. The assualt on the house just seemed odd like Bolans ability to unload two silenced Uzi on two SUVs filled with tangos and not a one of them squezze off a shot. A little un beliveable but nice.
Ray
10/10
November 18, 2000
I really liked this book it showed how tough Brognola is. I thought the fight on the DIV was great. and the ending showed just how human the Executioner is. Who ever wrote this book did a great job.
Bolan fighting a shark! Terrific! Took me back to my Tarzan and Conan collection. Three Nails is one hardcore villian, who really has it in for Brognola. The ending wasn't what I expected, but shows that Bolan is a true humanitarian. I really enjoyed this trilogy.
This book was good. It had lots of action in it. I liked the location. The DVI scene at the end was awsome. I hope 263 is a good book too.