Ride the Beast

The mission continues, blazing through Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Manila, and concluding at Hong Kong. Katz and McCarter are a good addition to the action, but all said and done, there is little originality or imagination in this book, or the whole trilogy for that matter. As before Bolan meets with a member of the local law, gets a hit list, and takes down the targets. Wash, rinse, and repeat. The ending action sequence was quite good, which saved this book from being rated below mediocre, but the book was another installment similar to the first two, with new locations and new badguy head-honchos names in place of the old. Action scenes were a little better than the other books but overall this trilogy offers nothing new for readers who have read many of Newton’s books before. Considering the author has written over 50 Bolan books since the writing of this trilogy, if this is any indication, I am not expecting much in the way of originality or imagination in those titles methinks.

The perfect ordinary book to finish off an ordinary trilogy. I can't believe I actually finished all three books and I am quite sure if there wasn't a sub story line which had nothing to do with the book but which causes major developments at Stony Man farm I probably wouldn't have. ;-) Now that I have peaked your interest you will have to read them to find out what it is but you could simply read books two and three as all the info is there and the second two titles are only the first extended anyway. Very Disappointing.

I was so disgusted with the trilogy at this point, I didn't even bother finishing this one.