Ultimate Price

The COMCON series should have been extended. HOWEVER, COMCON has always been around we just never knew that the fringe elements Mack had been fighting was those particular elements (Remember the Thule society and others?). I wanted to learned a bit more about Lance Fennig aka Joe Newport... I do like that Joe Newport's death was not that conclusive... but perhaps there could have been a SENSOPS deputy in the wings..... Gosh this ended WAY TOO FAST

Absolute Crap Page 1 - - and I quote ''She didn't try to mask the smells God gave her. She practiced proper hygiene but beyond that she was all-natural woman. And Mack Bolan was an all-American Man.'' Are freaking kidding me ! Then theres the assault by 13 nuclear powered helicopters called AeroDeath ? on the farm - which Bolan , his shotgun, Barb with an m-60 and some blacksuits stop cold. Wow! they are good. I chucked it across the room when Bolan ran into a gaggle of Uzi toting Stilleto wearing Bikini clad assasins who begin to chase him down ! One question that really boggled my mind is what the hell was this group doing - lets see they killed Kennedy , then what? they've been waiting around for the last 40 years ? What are they waiting for ? Global warming ? So then they really can take control of the world !! My brain hurts just thinking about this ! Eh Kay says - this ones going in the garbage.

Well I must admit after reading the second book in this trilogy I was not looking forward to reading this the final title of the trilogy. Surprise surprise (for me alone maybe?) it is okay reading. The attack launched on Stony Man Farm is exceptional reading and I loved it when Mack entered the FEMA headquarters as basically a Black Ace but I must admit getting a little giddy with his movements. I thought Newport deserved to be taken out personally by Mack at the end and I am struggling with the airship scene. But the final section was very well done. What can I say I thought the first title was okay, I thought the second title was a joke/crap but this is a good read on it's own.

Wow, what an outstanding book this turned out to be. Hell yeah. The Comcon trilogy has to be the best trilogy written in the series. All three books are awesome entertainment, and Ultimate Price in my opinion is the best of the three. First a shocking attack on Stony Man farm itself with an army of the secret nuke powered choppers. Excellent battle scenes there with Bolan and Price defending the farm. This makes up the first third of this thrilling novel. The second third of the book, my favorite, is the action at the 12 story hotel in west Texas. I loved this part. Bolan plays his role camaflage to the hilt as he poses as a SENSOPS agent, much like his black ace persona in the mafia wars. His manipulation of Saracino was brilliant, the action in the hotel was incredible, explosive and a great cinematic conclusion to the scene with the helicopters added to the action. Grimaldi's role in the novel is fantastic. Joe Newport. Ah, this is a great villain. Montgomery wrote this character brilliantly. I enjoyed all the scenes involving this guy. One flaw in the novel is I didn't get to see Bolan confront this man face to face for his demise. An interesting death for the villain all the same. The third portion of the story takes place at Area 51 in Nevada. Although the ending was somewhat rushed, I still thought it was great, with a terrifying conclusion, a gripping pulse pounding finish to one of the very best novels in the Executioner series. The author's writing is outstanding, I strongly recommend this trilogy for any fan of Mack Bolan, don't miss out on it!

Bloody good show!!!! Love the mix of techno and old world bad guys and the scene where Joe Newport gets it is flippin'awesome. just need to get # 264 to fill the gap as i have this one and Trigger Point.

An ending to the best trilogy of the entire Executioner line. I give it a 9 because of the rushed way all the characters had to be killed off (though that's no fault of the author's). Those Aerodeth choppers are pure killing machines, a perfect vehicle for Grimaldi. Can't understand why so many others didn't like it. I loved the whole trilogy.

Total crap. Had great potential...but couldn't live up to it. A book that seemed to have been forced when it was written and I personally had to force myself to read it. Unfortunatly I find this to be occuring more and more often in the series latley.

First, this piece of tripe should have been renamed the Ontario Chainsaw Massacre? Why? Because the folks in Editorial were too cowardly to take a fresh new direction, and demanded that anything scented of a recurring character in this series get killed off in the space of mere lines. Here we had Lauren Hunter, a great character who could have been used by any one of dozens of great authors, and she gets shot through the heart in the space of four pages from her first appearance in a wrestling match with a nameless MIB. Oh, and I think Gerald Montgomery got to say his own piece perfectly when Joe Newport died in a helicopter crash. "Joe Newport did not like his death. It came too soon." No kidding, Sherlock. Newport, Hunter, and COMCON had the potential to be a great addition to a series that was becoming a pointless "kill the rag-head/dope dealer" marathon. But no. Anything new and imaginative seems to be the death throes for an author's contribution to this series, we need just the same old technology. And to the lame-brains who considered the lighter than air craft with the "death beam" far fetched, why the hell didn't you say something about the satellite and man killing laser in Skysniper? Hello! Let's try and make your total lack of advanced weapons consistent at least! I'm at least going to write to Gerald Montgomery for a copy of the original manuscript so I can see how it was before it was attacked by Attilla the Hun and his near-sighted editorial barbarians. Here's a hint. If the type is big enough to read by moonlight, you can tell they chopped the hell out of it.

This book provided a good ending to Comcon trilogy. This book is total action from the beginning and told they way it needs to be. Its unfortunate that Gerald was told to kill off Comcon, it would havve been nice to see more books about them. The books would have been better with more development over more books. The worst part of the book was over the top Sci-Fi stuff. Nuclear powered helicopters - OK but a Zepplin with some kind of death ray??? The Splatterpunk killer had potential but was over the top. The bottom line is that this is a really good action novel. It was also told the way it needs to be.

I didn't find this story to be too bad, despite some of the other reviews here. The action scenes were once again extremely well written and the battle at the Farm was stunning. Despite the damage being described as "superficial" I had a sense that only a few nails were holding the place together. However, the things that I did not like outweigh the parts that I did enjoy, and not all of the problems can be laid at the feet of Gerald Montgomery. The feeling of the menace of an invisable second government was missing, mainly due to the series being "cancelled" so soon. It should have lasted several books longer so that the invisable council would have been more sinister. What really spoiled the whole book for me was the Zeppelin sequence. This was way out of place with its unexplainable sci-fi weaponry. The airship appears to shoot down the helicopters carrying Newport and Bolan, only to disappear and never be seen again. I feel that it would have been much better to have Bolan/Grimaldi kill Newport themselves, only to have their own helicopter crash afterwards. Also the destruction of Area 51 / Dreamland felt wrong. For one thing, it will probably be contradicted in the next Stony Man novel: Tactical Response. Maybe the secret hq of FEMA should have been placed elsewhere in the same desert. On the plus side, and nobody has yet commented on this, Buck Greene and the Annex finally make a crossover from Michael Kasner's novels to this one. So things are improving in the Bolan world. I didn't enjoy this story as much as Iron Fist, but it was still an improvement on a lot of other stories that have been published in the past. I am sorry that there will be no more novels from Mr Montgomery.

This book was something out of a science fiction book. Way too far fetched. Gerald, you really need to grow up.

What can I say? The first book in this trilogy started ok, but the other two are very weak. How many times is the Farm going to be attacked? Thirteen assault helicopters crash with nuclear reactors all over the Farm. Nothing is really said about side effects or fall-out on the land. Comcon is supposed to be this big nasty enemy and it can't even kill one enemy. Alot of blacksuits are killed, but no mention of the number. If the idea of the Farm being attacked was carried over to other books (ie- new paint or masonry, reason for new security, etc) it would really connect this with others. There must be continuity in all the books. This could have been a geat trilogy, but falls short.

This is a damned good conclusion to the trilogy, despite the fact that COMCON deserved to be played out over a few more books at least, and it loses a point for that (it's clear some threads didn't get the development they deserved.) A conspiracy this big doesn't get squashed that easily. Still, I was cheering Mack on -- hell, I was even rooting for *Barbara* -- and I look forward to seeing more of Gerry's work. :-) This is kick-ass action, with Bolan in high gear as he goes for the jungular.

Major disappointment. This one had so much potential, but was slammed face first into the dirt, by all the editing. Scenes were too fast and thrown together. COMCON was meant to be longer, but it got the axe, and all we get is the bloody stump. There were aspects of the book that I loved, but no time to develop them. I wish that Gerald Montgomery would have had the chance to present COMCON the way he intended it to be, and that Gold Eagle had the vision to let this very talented writer shine in all his glory. Viva Montgomery!