Point Position

Well this title is an improvement on his first effort in the series but I found it still lacking. Whilst reading it I constantly was thinking to myself this is not Mack. Nothing startling with the exception of Mack swearing (can't recall the big fella doing that much) but it just seemed to me that the author failed to capture the character. The storyline is okay and the two merc characters were reasonable as well but I plodded through the book. There are a few characters introduced that are never used again throughout the book and no explanation is given on what happened to them so I was kind of wondering why even bother introducing them in the first place if they have no bearing on the storyline except to add a few pages to the title. The final assault on the chateau was okay but overall I was kind of bored and was glad to get to the end of the book. There are many many other titles in this series I would recommend before this one.

This one was a bit slow for me. I felt that too much of the book was taken up with the lengthy chase of the stolen secret weapon. Mack was forced to team up with to agents after the same objective in this adventure, and the chapters just felt a little repetative to me. On the plus side, the two-man team of agents that bolan works with through most of the book were interesting and memorable, but the end of the book kind of felt like a fizzle. No interesting bad guys in this one either. All in all, not one of my favorites. Not terrible by any means - just a little flat.

The plot of the book sounded very interesting, but overall, it didn't knock my socks off. The scenes in the catacombs were very tense, as were the scenes with Mack prowling around the nightlife of Marseilles. When he got shacked up with the two mercs, I thought it went downhill from there. Ross' partner was soooooooooo annoying, and it's a wonder he lasted this long in his chosen profession, considering his demeanor. The final battle was done well, and it had a suprising Epilogue. Not the best book out there, but it was a decent time-passer.

Point Position was a very good read because of the sonic weapon, as it seemed Bolan and his allies were always in danger because of it. Granted, it's a little far-fetched, but it's kinda believable in that it's influence/power is limited. Goldman was an excellent character, always flying off the handle and gettign trouble started for everyone. He was almost comic relief if he weren't so unstable. Ross on the other hand wasn't nearly as interesting, and totally wasted towards the ending (didn't see his death coming). I also liked the countess' character and wish she'd have had a larger role. Not often a sexy black woman gets put into these stories, so it's kind of a waste when she's only around for a few pages then vanishes.

In my opinion this was an average entry into the Bolan Executioner series. I liked the fact that Bolan had to team up with some mercs, in order to retrieve his only possible lead and then to get back teh objective's. The nerve agent as well as the sonic microchip. I was a page turner, fiinshed it in one day. I would recomend this book to all.

I read this book wanting to see if this new Bolan author made an improvement from his debut of #299. Although Boot is not the most gifted writer, I thought Point Position was a step up in some ways, and overall it was worth reading. Bolan's mission is to recover a stolen weapon from the hands of an arms dealer, before he sells it to a terrorist named Attaturk. The plot ideas concerning this sonic weapon were cool, and one of the things I liked about the story was the way it was used and how Bolan had to deal with it during his assault on the arms dealer's chateau. The action takes place in France, and one scene takes place in the underground sewer system which was another scene I liked. However I didn't care much for the silly fight with the homeless people in one of the rooms there. Bolan has some unlikely allies in this mission in the form of two merc agents named Goldman and Ross, who are also after the sonic weapon. Although Grimaldi is involved, most of Bolan's mission is with these two agents at his side. These are not the type of people Bolan was happy to work with, and the crazy Goldman and the levelheaded Ross made for an interesting pair for Mack to put up with. It was never made clear who exactly these agents were working for. Some parts of the book were a little slow paced for my liking, and Bolan didn't seem like himself at times. And the fate of Attaturk wasn't clear, and the character of D'Orsini, who was after him, was forgotten. I was hoping this side of the plot would have had a resolution, but it didn't happen. I did like the ending assault on the chateau, and I liked how Bolan was miked up with Grimaldi for much of the mission, a cool hi-tech angle to the action that I've only read so far in Blood Trade. In a nutshell, this is a novel that is ok to get by with until a better book in the series follows the next month.