Doomsday Conspiracy

The abrupt ending to the first book does not transition to the beginning of book two as I had hoped. In addition, it wasn't clear who if any of the main villains survived at the very end. Book two starts off with Bolan attacking a compound in France. More attacks in a string of hits leads Bolan to Germany, Lebanon, and eventually to Pakistan. Bolan's end of things got repetitive, with Grimaldi blowing everything up with a jet or a helicopter, Bolan interrogating a survivor to find out where to go next, etc. The better parts of the story were from the villain's perspective, This is where the author's writing really shines in this title. While packed with action, I wasn't all that impressed with some of it, including the ending where it was just a bunch of explosions and fire. My favorite moments were the dramatic tension between the main villains and their dodgy allies, as the impending unknown problem followed them wherever they went. The villain's plot is revealed in detail in this book, after this, it looks like book three might be more of the similar Bolan/Grimaldi assaults, I am hoping things will change up a little.

Well this is rubbish, Mack and Jack go from location to location and with assorted assistance slaughter all the bad guys at the location but the head guys slip away time and time again. So with no further clues as to where to go next on the trail of the bad guys manage to save one wounded everytime to get information on where to go next. It goes on and on with the same mass killings at every location. I was bored stupid trying to read this and couldn't wait until the end of the title. Bizarre I am wondering if Dan Schmidt actually forgot what he is writing about. The scenario Mack has seriously damaged the cash flow of the coalition taking out their weapons and a billion dollar drug shipment so the guys are short of the folding stuff. So we find Kuschka the ex KGB guy at the home of Carreaux who is the big guy in France and he demands $50 million dollars (hey we really need the money come on) surprisingly Carreaux refuses and it is on. After all of his henchmen are taken out by the Russian forces a terrified Carreaux says hang on I can see you are serious about this I have $5 million in the safe in cash. Well maybe we don't need cash in fact as Kuschka proceeds to shoot him in both arms and legs and walks out without a cent ???? We later then read yet again how crucial cash is to the coalition to finalise their plans and I'm thinking what the hell is actually going on here ? This is an extremely ordinary title in the series and I am thinking to myself could the third title of the series possibly be as bad as the first two? Surely it must be at least a fair read or you would have to question yourself why was this crap ever published in the first place ?

This was a strong middle book in a very good Bolan trilogy. The Bolan/Grimaldi team-up works great for this story. The main villains are written very well. The Hydra concept while vague in some points comes across as very chilling. The action is through the roof in this book. My only complaint is that Bolan never seems to get tired throughout all his globe-hopping destruction, he's like a Terminator powered by Energizer batteries - lol

This one was pretty good. The Grimaldi/Bolan teamup was really good. It was, however, rather repetative. Everywhere that the bad guys went, Mack Bolan followed them becuase of an interrogated prisoner. Whatever buisness associate was in that area, Bolan would find out, kick their asses to kingdom come, and just miss Kushka as he gets away. Then the cycle begins again. Other than that, It was pretty good.

This books rules! I like how Grimaldi actually participates in the book.