{"id":12780,"date":"2013-06-08T06:40:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T11:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12780"},"modified":"2013-06-08T06:40:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T11:40:47","slug":"book-report-miami-massacre-by-don-pendleton-1970-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/08\/book-report-miami-massacre-by-don-pendleton-1970-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Miami Massacre<\/i> by Don Pendleton (1970, 1982)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0523000081\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0523000081&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/miamimassacre.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0523000081\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0523000081&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\">This book<\/a> is a stunning departure from the series, wherein Mack Bolan&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Aw, who am I kidding?  Mack Bolan hits a hard site in Phoenix and follows its bosses to a big deal meet-up in Miami, where the mafia heads are getting together to finally take drastic steps to eliminate The Executioner.  He liberates a couple women who were under the thumb of the mob and shoots a lot of bad guys and perpetrates an audacious assault on a couple of hard sites.  In other words, it&#8217;s a lot like the other books in the series.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s most interesting in these books is the evolution of the mythology and the beginning of the plot points that get resolved later.  In this book, the Talifero brothers are introduced; they&#8217;ll hound him off and on for a couple of books.<\/p>\n<p>The book also has a side plot where Bolan helps and is helped by Cuban counterrevolutionary guerrillas.  How quaint.  In 1970, perhaps that seemed like a possibility.  In 2013, that&#8217;s a very dated relic.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, I pick these books up as filler or breaks from longer reading.  I&#8217;m getting a little down on them, especially when it comes time to say something intelligent about them on the Internet, so maybe I ought to read something else for a while.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><br \/>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0523000081&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is a stunning departure from the series, wherein Mack Bolan&#8230;. Aw, who am I kidding? Mack Bolan hits a hard site in Phoenix and follows its bosses to a big deal meet-up in Miami, where the mafia heads are getting together to finally take drastic steps to eliminate The Executioner. He liberates a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12782,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12780\/revisions\/12782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}