Tuesday, October 27, 2009
 
Book Report: Missouri Deathwatch A Mack Bolan/The Executioner Book (1985)
I found this book at my first book fair in the Springfield area. The Friends of the Christian County Library book sale was laden with series pulp like The Executioner, so how could I not grab one entitled Missouri Deathwatch and set in St. Louis.

Sort of. Aside from the title and the character mentioning that the action takes place in St. Louis, there's no real sense of place. Descriptions of locations are stock. It could have been Philadelphia Deathwatch for all intents and purposes. On the other hand, it's better than getting details wrong so that you get a sense of misplace (see Blood on the Arch).

This book is somewhere in the 80s in the Mack Bolan series, and with any series like this run through a set of different authors pounding out a wordcount for a paycheck. This book falls toward the bottom of the range. The author pads it out with musings about Mack Bolan's purpose for the war on the Mob and repeating the arms he carries and whatnot. So it's not the best in the series, and it's not bad for what it is: a short pulp novel with some action and some explosions.

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