Death Squad (The Executioner #2) (1969)
by Don Pendleton Mack Bolan heads to California with a Mafia contract on his head, where he recruits a small “death squad” to hit the Los Angeles family as both police and mob killers close in on him. This second installment of Don Pendleton’s seminal men’s adventure series shifts away from lone 70s revenge thriller toward more of a Dirty Dozen vibe. Don Pendleton There are entertaining stretches from the Mafia’s point of view in which they get increasingly frazzled and short-tempered as the siege tightens. The frantic efforts of the police to respond to a threat they can’t quite locate, always a step behind, gives a cat-and-mouse feel to the action. Unfortunately, the new team never fully comes alive. They are less like characters than a set of interchangeable “skills,” and I had trouble keeping straight who was who; functionally, they operate as a single partner to Bolan rather than distinct presences with their own personalities. "Death Wand" (Gree...
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