Uforce

While I do have to agree with several reviews saying at times this it does not feel like an executioner story I still really enjoyed it. It was very different than any other that I have read. Had a very X-Files feel to it and I did enjoy the American government top-secret spaceship kind of thing. The story dragged sometimes with pointless filler about extra characters and that is why I am not rating this higher. This book also came out a month Before 9/11 So it’s fun to read a story that was separated from that which gave it a much more escapism feel to an action story.

Definately a strange book, but I found the plot believable to a point. The idea of using aliens as a cover for secret government operations was interesting. Not your typical Bolan book. The action scenes were good and Sgt. Mowry made a very capable partner for Bolan. Overall a solid 5 out of 10.

Crap. Gotta say more okay not only is the science fiction stuff totally out of order in this series IMO the actual dialog of the story is rubbish the characters introduced ordinary and it is very vary hard to read. Well I managed to finish this but could certainly understand if you chucked it before finishing it. This is probably a good one to miss reading in the series.

I really didn't know what to make of this novel. First off, knowing many people hated this book, I began reading UFORCE with as neutral a mindset as I could, giving the book a fresh chance to be what I wanted it to be, just another entertaining novel in a long ongoing series. Upon completion, I didn't think this was a bad novel at all. However, it wasn't a very good one either. The book starts out really cool, with interesting spooky events and some intrigue. In short, a military secret group with the latest modern technology is told that it is being cut off due to shortage of funding. This causes the UFORCE leader and main villain Goddard, to go rogue and continue his operation anyway, convinced his group is the only savior for America against any major threats. But this group is ruthless, has dirty hands, and uses unusual tactics to achieve its goals. These tactics are what makes this book the unusual story in the Bolan series that it is. The X-files and other shows of that kind are the influence for this book, something that GE apparently was into at the time, and UFORCE was Rich Rainey's contribution to this genre. So how was it? Strange for sure, and yet not so strange. Strange because for an Executioner novel we have ufos, gray aliens, mibs, crop circles, and futuristic sound and light weapons. Not so strange because this UFORCE is really behind it all, playing a big trick on gullible people. (oops, I didn't mean to spoil that for you, hehe haha)... So what we have here in this book in a nutshell is a vehicle to be a part the X-file mania of the time, and although this is a cool idea, and other authors have written these kind of books very well and very entertaining, however UFORCE fails to some degree in its execution. Mack Bolan is merely an extra in this novel. Not that he wasn't involved but he was not playing the role that he should have in this story, from beginning to end. He was about as far from lone-wolf as you can get, and he even allowed himself to be on camera, as well as expose himself to many many people in public. This just doesn't fit, and he was also bailed out of many situations as if he was incompitent and needed his military allies to do most of the work. The story jumps around quite frequently, and although I never got lost in the storyline, I thought too many characters and places were introduced without enough of an impact on the story for some of them to be necessary. I almost suspect this was a superbolan chopped up and squeezed into a regular series book. Also, I was disappointed in the ending, because there was so much build-up, but it was very brief and just not very good. Bolan should end up a novel kicking major ass, but in here he is an undercover guy playing Tom Clancy until the last minute and then he has a rather gimpy ending sequence. What did bring up my rating for this book however, is that there is plenty of originality and spooky stuff going on to make the read interesting, and a little bit of suspense, and I thought there were several entertaining moments in the novel overall. I liked the Stevenson villain, and some of the character interaction between various people in the book. And the "ufo" was cool too. Action scenes were good, and I always like some conpiracy sprinkled in a story. If you are looking for something different in this series, and like the ufo kind of stuff, give this book a try, but otherwise skip it, as it is not a spectacular entry, and is far from what Mack Bolan is good at doing. Not the best, but UFORCE is far from the worst. I guess a five is a fair grade.

This was a terrible entry. All that has been said about it in the other reviews is true. I couldn't make it past page 60--I thought I would give it a try anyway, and boy was I proven wrong.

i think moulder was bolan's backup here. omg aliens. bolan runnin round chasin aliens. the plot was good yes, but talk about goin too far past the extreme. it was dumb.

Hey, Doug, what are your impressions about Uforce (#273)????? ACK! THVVPPPT! BLEARGH! SPIT! BAAAAAAHHH! (sound of goat getting blow-job) I can't believe the chicken choker who wrote Uforce was the same human being who wrote the awe-inspiring, return to New York City to whack mobsters and chew gum hellfire piss in an eye-fest that was the Judas Goat! This should have been renamed as a sequal to the Judas Goat, which in truth was "On Your Knees Puffing on the Lambsteak of the Judas Goat." Any resemblance between Uforce and the rest of the line of Bolan books is not only UN-FREAKING-INTENTIONAL, but it's also a spit in the eye of an undeveloped X-Files type project for Gold Eagle that got shelved, and most of the elements were taken by daddy over to another series for GE. This was just a way to take some plot elements left on an editor's desk and get turned into something that the readers might associate with the more positively received COMCON Wars by Gerald Montgomery, although that's similar to saying that people might enjoy a new turn for Bolan if he should become a hitman for the Mafia, because that's the kind of side-flipping that he did between COMCON and Uforce. Check the reviews for the book. Plot lines went nowhere. Chapters looked like introductory chapters for entire novels, and the only reason you could figure out that Mack Bolan was Mack Bolan was because the writer insisted on calling this strange pussy-whipped slave of the State Department Mack Bolan, and threw in Hal Brognola for good measure, leaving the rest of Stony Man Farm and the SOG out of the loop while they worked for the leftovers of Operation: Paperclip, the very scumbags Bolan had engaged with Chow Yun Fat glorious fury and carnage big guns blazing bodies slamming the floor satisfaction not a couple books earlier. And yes, Icewolf, it sucked THE WHOLE DAMN BARNYARD more readily, and with greater enthusiasm than Death's Head, and trust me, it's not pretty to see a small paperback sucking a rooster's rooster. Cockle-doodle-dooo!

When I started to read this book, I thought, Great, another author is going to try to tie some of the pieces of the COMCON story together. It certainly seemed that way. The 'spaceship' of Uforce is almost identical to the one that shot Joe Newport down in Ultimate Price, and the leader of Uforce hate the secret government of America, including our old enemies FEMA. That sadly is where the similarities end. Once the book gets going we learn that Uforce has gone rogue and that the entire government is out to stop them. The reason that Uforce has gone rogue? Simply that they believe that the US Government is now under control of 'the bad guys' and it is time to set things right. Enter Bolan and Brognola. These are not the same two characters from other books. To start with there is not a single mention of Stony Man Farm. Not once. Brognola now heads up an organization called COG, or Continuity of Government, which is made up of organizations such as FEMA. AND BOLAN WORKS FOR THEM! The book slid down hill from there. There were attempts to make UForce out to be the bad guys by having them hang out with drugs dealers etc. but this did not seem very plausible. By half way through the book I was rooting for Uforce. And half way through the book is where the story just stopped. We, the readers, are treated to 16 pages of what farmer Freeman saw in his field one night. Sixteen pages of repetative description what could have been placed in three pages. That finished the book entirely for me. I did finish reading it, but it was slow going. Needless to say I will not read this book ever again.

It's unfortunate that there is nothing lower than a one to grade this book. I wish it had a who's who included that I could refer back to. I can only hope that this was a very bad edit. The plot went back and forth and seemed to be actually several different books put together. At times I didn't know if COG was good or bad. This book took me several months to read and I usually finish one in several hours. It would be kind to say something was lost in the translation, but it's published in English. Bolan came out of nowhere, and had people working for him that weren't really introduced properly. The technology was never explained. Not one of the author's best works.

This one book that I will have a hard time to finish. The book started out good. but as the book continued the writer started to drift away from just a bout everything. There was to much detail about Uforce and the people that made up the division. By half way through the book Bolan seemed to dissapear, only to reapear for 3or 4 pages and then dissapear again. The author seems to have been day dreaming when he wrote this on. I will finish the book but it will be work not pleasure.

This was one of the funniest Bolan books I ever read, but not ha-ha funny...funny as in peculiar. It started out with an intriguing premise, then zigged completely away from it to standard issue drug-money corrupted Mexican officials, then zagged back to a muddy storyline about government conspiracies--which, if I read it correctly really aren't conspiracies at all but a beneficial system of black ops meant to protect the US. Alien abductions, unidentified aircraft, crop circles...all of it is done to protect the security of our nation. Uh...right. Not only did "UForce" seem to be an intentional attempt to invalidate the underpinnings of the Comcon story arc, it also seemed heavily influenced by the Outlanders series, which was another thing which made it peculiar. This book read as if it was originally intended to be something else entirely but then was severely rewritten and clumsily jammed into the Bolan world, with no regard to continuity. All the material regarding drug barons seemed like last-minute afterthoughts. There were no real characters, just names and general physical descriptions, and the parallel plotlines never seemed to come together or have any real relevance...either to each other or anything else. All in all, an interesting concept but a very poor end product. Some of the more recent fanfic has been far more well-crafted than UForce.

Well, I finally finished this stinker. I would read as much as I could, then I would read other books in between. I liked the way Uforce started out. Seemed very promising, but then the story never gelled and Bolan, talk about a card board personality, just seemed to wander around and wasn't believable at all. Judas Kill by Rainey was a terrific book and Storm Front was okay, but Uforce is just plain bad! I know Rich Rainey is a good writer, but what happened! Ah well everyone has a bad day. I just hope Crossed Borders makes up for Uforce.

I am not one to bash a Mack Bolan book or to rate any commendable effort with less than a 5, but boy that book was bad. I have to admit that I do not like the way that some of these books are headed, mayby the authors are just running short on ideas. I had to force myself to finish this one and am very disapointed in how it ended. I was also disapointed with Tactical Response.