Lethal Agent

This story starts out in the usual fashion from Mel Odom, right in the middle of some action, and the reader gets more of a backround later in the story. Nothing really impressive about the story or the plot or the action in the early stages of the novel. However the more I read, I continued to get more caught up in the adventure, and it turned out to be a really excellent read overall. The best scenes take place in the jungles of Burma, and here is where bolan is in his element, and we get to see a gripping adventure as Bolan takes on several factions mostly by himself, traveling many miles on foot, by truck or train or motorcycle in the Burma wilderness. This is one book where Bolan takes a beating, and his health is a key factor in his search for a crazed russian major and his Burmese drug-lord cronie. This added realism and suspense to the story, and I also liked the various allies Bolan encounters during the adventure. I thought that the character of Bolan in Lethal Agent is Odom's best portrayal of the Executioner I have seen in his writing. In general, so much of the entries from so many writers over a long period of time have generated an overall standardized military action hero character that it seems like the character has become generic in a lot of books. In this novel, however, I got the sense that I was reading the Mack Bolan I remember as the true Bolan from the days of Pendleton/Newton/Mertz. The action in this book never stops, the story moves at a brisk pace, and with the various positive traits in the writing, I really enjoyed this book.

Hey the start is great. Well if I was not reading this series from 1 to .... and was then morally compelled to read each title. I read it. this I would not recommend this title to you as one of the better titles in the series. my two bobs worth........

This was a rather strange book. It started out as an explosive one with Bolan being ambushed and Brognola was used as a bait to lure Bolan into a trap but after this the book becomes flat and average with jungle and desert fights for the rest of the book. The book left a lot of questions unanswered due to way too many loose ends after reading it and was like the author was trying to mix together too many different forces without managing to get the story and the plot together in an interesting way. The so called "mad man" wasn´t really displayed in the book aside from the short encounter with Bolan in the last few pages and that encounter was too short especially since he knew Bolan from the past. This book could have been a much better one but instead it was confusing and flat and basically a little less than average reading if not for the great start of the book

Nothing special about this one. It had good action and shootouts, but they hardly focused on the villain.