Blood and Fire

This story is about taking down the makers and distributers of a dangerous new drug. Bolan starts his mission in New York, continues in Miami, then ends up in the country of the drug’s source, Jamaica. Nonstop action in each leg of his war moves this book along, with the body count rising more at each location. The brutal beating Bolan brings on the villains in Jamaica is awesome. All along Bolan has a DEA agent as an ally, and Grimaldi joins the action later on, as well as an unexpected and very helpful ally for the Jamaican end of the mission. Plenty of upper level villains are involved, and it was fun to see them realize that a one man army was besting all of them. A great action book well worth your time to get a hold of and read.

The perfect book ? No but it comes close. Every now and then you start one of these titles and you know within the first couple of pages if you will love it or hate it with no middle ground. Certainly for me it was the prior. The plot is terrific AND very believable with a new designer drug released on the market with shocking consequences for users. The drug kingpin uses Jamaican heavies backed up by ex Swiss elite troopers for protecting his business. Mack is not a lone wolf in this book though by any means and is in fact teamed up with a female agent from the DEA for the complete book. The action scenes are very well done leading up to the final scenes where the laboratory complex is destroyed which is surperbly done. Lots and lots of little things included which are new and novel a couple of which were new to me a baseball cap/kevlar protection and the ball point pen which had a bullet (yep I know the idea is not new but I fail to recall it in any of the previous books) but it leads in perfectly with Jack's escape scene. This book is a fantastic read and is HIGHLY recommended reading. BUT "Why only a vote of eight stars?" I originaly was going for nine until I got to the section where Jack is cleaning his gun and is overpowered by the Jamaicans. COME ON don't tell me Jack is going to be kidnapped and held hostage again ???? grrr yep TWO STARS DEDUCTED please how many times is this going to be used ? So then it was going to be a seven until I read near to the end of the book "Bolan kicks out, twisting face downward as he walked down the building in the Australian assault style. And then in the epilogue handing Special Agent Theresa Antonio a stuffed toy which was in fact a Koala bear AND she knew what it was. My heart skipped a beat and a smile came to my face and one star was restored. ;-)

I have this on audio book , and liked the action, it was pretty fast paced and I liked the female DEA agent. But Doesn't Bolan have a sex drive? How does he keep his eyes off these babes? James Bond he is NOT!! I only think Bolan should have had better dialogue. The 7 out of 10 stars is mostly for the action.

I liked this entry very much. I was surprised by former Able Team writer Chuck Rogers, for having such a fast-paced adventure.