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The Executioner

Final Play

by Don Pendleton

Published 2003224 pagesISBN 978-0-3736-4298-4

The Executioner targets New York’s five families, who are about to go political Mack Bolan escapes England unhurt but unarmed, praying for a quiet homecoming. This ex­–Vietnam sniper, whose war against the Mafia has taken him around the globe, should have known better. Four mob heavies surround him as he gets off the plane, but it only takes a moment for the man known as the Executioner to take one of their guns as his own. He fights his way to the helipad and lifts off on a short trip to Midtown. The skies are quiet, but the mob will be waiting when he lands. Injured in his escape, Bolan takes refuge with a trio of kind young women, who nurse him back to health as he discovers a Mafia conspiracy to take control of the nation’s government. His European vacation is over, and it’s time for the Executioner to go to work.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Fiction

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Reading experience

Dark tone · Steady pace

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Reading lengthA shorter read224 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 2003
Primary categoryFictionExplore similar books below
ISBN-13
978-0-3736-4298-4
Language
English
Edition record
OL7418730M
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Good to know

A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Begin with its place in Fiction, then notice where the book resists that label.

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Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What does the central character want, and what do they misunderstand about that desire?
  2. Which detail or relationship changes how you interpret the story?
  3. What feeling or question does the book leave with you after the plot moves on?

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