Dual Action

This feel like old school Mack Bolan. The action is crisp and paced very very well. Love or hate Mike Newton this one is a solid page-turner. I really liked the reporter, and like others have pointed out - this sidekick lives through a cautionary tale for all potential Bolan sidekicks. It should get you dead, or near dead. The whole twin gimmick could have been dropped (probably should have), but it doesn't ruin what is now one of my favorite Bolan books.

Bolan scrambles across America in search for a Nazi superweapon. Where or how the superweapon was created, don’t go looking for the details here. Primarily the novel is a rather interesting character study of the current Nazi movement in America. No points awarded for the double gimmick. This is one of the few from Mike Newton in recent years that didn’t involve a jungle crawl and a Steyr Aug. Also contains no femme fatales. Also addressed: Bolan’s reluctance of using civilian allies. I have railed against using sidekicks for the sake of partnering up Bolan with a fresh face. Other authors deploy them regularly. But this author’s firm grasp of the character is true to the lone wolf nature. And it shows what would really happen if a civilian gets caught up in Bolan’s world if, and only if, he managed to talk Bolan into taking him along. I recommend this overlooked entry.

Unbelievable I disagree with the previous reviews on this title yet again AND it is a Mike Newton book which I am gonna praise? What is this world coming to? Simply this is the best work of Mike Newton I have read for a VERY VERY long time in this series. There is no female ally taken hostage which the big fella has to save folks, there are no sniper scenes, there are no rattling of the cage scenes where we pit opposing forces against each other, simply this is an original work which whilst has a previous enemy namely Nazi extremists it quite frankly is a refreshing change to middle eastern terorists. The book reads extremely easily with just enough action and suspense to keep you turning the pages. There is a sub plot revealed at the end and the epilogue which explains a few things that occur in the reading of the book. As usual with Mike Newton the action scenes are polished and the storyline flows fluidly. WHY WHY WHY can't this man produce quality like this again and again without forcing us readers to read some of the (insert adjective here) titles he has dumped on us. I thought it was a very good read and would recommend this to anyone to read.

I kinda felt like this was adapted straight from a screenplay for one of those Chuck Norris 80's Cannon action films ... I imagined Bolan, not in black, but wearing skin tight blue jeans and a jean shirt with no sleaves, holding an M16/M203 . The villains seemed cartoonish and I kept having flash backs to Invasion USA for some reason. It was cheesy, but entertaining cheese nontheless - sounds like I'm knocking it, but really it wasn't that bad. Eh Kay says : and average Bolan.

I came back to the wild world of Mack Bolan after a long, long absence when somebody left this at the airport in Atlanta. I could tell right off that whoever left the book didn't finish it, and a few chapters in I could see why. There's nothing special to this book and a lot of it was very been-there-done-that. In fact, I'm not positive, but some of the scenes seemed so familiar I'm wondering if they were just copied out of one of the earlier Executioner novels I read yeas ago. At any rate, if you've been living in a cave and never read a novel about neo-Nazis and secret weapons, this might be an okay introduction to Bolan, because at least the writer presents Mack in a way that reminded me of the way Don Pendleton wrote him. Everybody else should move on. I might try another book or two, but if they're all this mediocre that'll do it for me. And they should bring back the War Wagon!

This was not one of Mike Newton's best books for a number of reasons. For Starters, it felt like it was ripping off the movie Eraser and not in a very good way. In terms of the characters there were good ones and there were bad ones but not many good ones. However there are some good points about the book itself. First off a book about Bolan killing Nazi's is always a good thing. Secondly I loved the idea of what I like to call "The Double Mint Nazi Twins." This was not as good as his three part SuperBolan story "The Tyranny Files," but it was a worthy effort.