Target Command

This book was one of the best books by Don Pendelton.You should read this one!!!!!

I'll be the first to admit that I'm pretty picky when it comes to my tastes with the Executioner series. I am fairly new to the series, especially when it comes to regular reading, so I can't comment on changes to the Mack Bolan character over the past near-thirty years. I know only the Gold Eagle Executioner, and haven't even read a bok by Don Pendleton. Having said that, I know what I like in a good action/adventure, and sometimes find it in an Executioner novel. Too often, I find the series places much too much emphasis on action and filling pages with unnecessary fight scenes, trying to stretch a story too thinly over a pre-determined number of pages. Action is a commodity the Executioner series is high on; suspense, which is a more valuable comodity to me as a reader, is unfortunately often trampled by the action, overshadowed in favor of seeing how many guards' deaths can be squeezed into 220-350 (depending on which Executioner series you're reading) pages. So when I find a Bolan book that actually gets me into the story and takes me for a thrill ride, I treasure it. And I treasure that author even more, and await more of his/her books. in the case of "Target Comand," first book of the "Power Triogy," the author is Chuck Rogers. Not since David Robbins have I found a more enjoyable author. This guy actually lets Bolan's sense of humor show through. I actually felt dramatic tension in this book, and am looking foward to reading the second book in the trilogy--although thanks to the synopsis of this book, I now know one of the secrets to be revealed in the course of the trilogy--Bad move, whoever wrote that synopsis. Not only does it spoil events which haven't been disclosed by the end of the bok, but it also is completely dry and doesn't at all indicate the tone of the book. Another nice touch in this Executioner book is the care this author takes in characters. There's one Russian woman character in this book who I realy want to see more. If! she's killed in the course of the trilogy, I'm going to have a few choice words to Mr. Rogers about it. (Mr. Rogers ... No, must banish the images that spring to mind about a beautiful day in the neighborhood... Somehow, it just doesn't go with the image of Bolan mowing down people in that beautiful neighborhood with his Desert Eagle...) To sum up, if you're looking for a fun, action-filled story that could be straight out of a movie, this book's definitely one you'll want to order.