War Against the Mafia

Name: War Against the Mafia
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Don Pendleton
ISBN: 9781705208960

Author: Don Pendleton

Series: Executioner #1

Narrator: Shawn Compton

Unabridged: 5 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/21/2020

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Crime

Synopsis

The first book in the classic vigilante action series from a "writer who spawned a genre"—The New York Times.

Overseas, Mack Bolan was dubbed "Sgt. Mercy" for the compassion he showed the innocent. On the home front, they're calling him the Executioner for what he's doing to the guilty.

In the jungles of Southeast Asia, American sniper Mack Bolan honed his skills. After twelve years, with ninety-five confirmed hits, he returns home to Massachusetts. But it's not to reunite with his family, it's to bury them—victims in a mass murder/suicide. Even though Bolan's own father pulled the trigger, he knows the old man was no killer. He was driven to madness by Mafia thugs who have turned his idyllic hometown into a new kind of war zone.

Duty calls . . .

About Don Pendleton

Don Pendleton (1927-1995) was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. At the age of fourteen, during World War II, he enlisted in the Navy, serving until 1947 as a Radioman. He returned to active Naval duty during the Korean Conflict. Following the war he worked as a railroad telegrapher, CAA/FAA air traffic control specialist, and aerospace engineer. In the latter career, he worked as a senior engineer for Martin-Marietta's Titan ICBM programs and as an engineering administrator in NASA's Apollo Moonshot program. He published his first short story in 1957 and his first novel in 1961. Leaving his aerospace career behind, Don turned to full time writing in 1967, produced a number of mystery, science fiction, and futuristic novels, a screenplay, and numerous poems, short stories, and essays.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Scott on May 18, 2024

Sergeant Mack Bolan, a sniper with 95 confirmed kills, returns home from his stint in Vietnam to find that his entire family is dead. The local mafiosi is to blame. Upon further research, Bolan discovers that the mafia has ruined a lot of local families, destroyed a lot of lives, is responsible for......more

Goodreads review by Nate on July 24, 2024

The Executioner #1 : war against the mafia This book isn’t just gold, it’s shiny golden hot garbage! The Executioner proudly displays every cheesy “one man army” cliche, which you’d expect from one glance at the cover. What makes it great is that it’s not some tired, phoned in cash run; this is the o......more

Goodreads review by Dale on April 26, 2014

I had to dust this book off and reread it. I have been reading so many larger and epic scale novels this month that my brain needed a break. True story. When I was a young teen my brothers and I broke into a neighbors house and stole away his porno magazines. Along side the pornos we just so happened......more

Goodreads review by Benji's Books on March 30, 2024

Ah, the inspiration for Marvel's the Punisher! I've been meaning to read this for a very long time and I'm glad I finally did. It's pretty well-written and I'm looking forward to diving into book 2. This is a very long series, but I'll at least try to read the ones by the original author. Fair warni......more

Goodreads review by Little on October 21, 2019

An excellent men's adventure series from the 60s, 70's and 80's. The first 38 books are outstanding but then the series is taken over by a bunch of new writers, writing under the name of the original creator and they take the series into a new direction I did not care for. The first 38 books are ver......more