{"id":15295,"date":"2016-04-30T08:09:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T13:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15295"},"modified":"2016-04-26T11:11:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T16:11:36","slug":"book-report-mountain-rampage-by-don-pendleton-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/30\/book-report-mountain-rampage-by-don-pendleton-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Mountain Rampage<\/i> by &#8220;Don Pendleton&#8221; (1983)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0373610548\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0373610548&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/mountainrampage.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0373610548\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0373610548&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\">This book<\/a> is definitely a better entry in the series than <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/27\/book-report-the-invisible-assassins-by-don-pendleton-1983\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Invisible Assassins<\/em><\/a>.  Bolan doesn&#8217;t light a cigarette.<\/p>\n<p>\tWhat he does do, however, is infiltrate a terrorist compound in the Colorado Rockies where an assortment of international bad guys are working on chemicals that will make people crazy hyperactive and self-destructive and also a chemical that turns them essentially into controllable zombies.  Bolan infiltrates the compound, blows things up, rescues an attractive young lady, and then the book ends 20 pages earlier than I expected because the samples from other novels at the end have the title of this book in the header.<\/p>\n<p>\tIt&#8217;s very straightforward: Bolan comes and the assault begins rather straight away.  There are cut scenes to Stony Farm which add nothing but padding.  I can almost imagine adding them and the sample pages for <em>four<\/em> other Gold Eagle books to get this volume to fighting weight.<\/p>\n<p>\tHowever, in context of what it is, thinner and straightforward works.  And although there&#8217;s not a lot of reflection, no Bolan War Journal entries, the book does have a bit of that flavor the previous installment lacked.  It&#8217;s almost as though the author might have read one of the Bolan books before reading it.<\/p>\n<p>\tAlthough if they could stop switching semi-automatic pistols to single fire, that would be nice.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=stlbrianj-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0373610548&#038;asins=0373610548&#038;linkId=O6K6IX3XNIUX4JYE&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is definitely a better entry in the series than The Invisible Assassins. Bolan doesn&#8217;t light a cigarette. What he does do, however, is infiltrate a terrorist compound in the Colorado Rockies where an assortment of international bad guys are working on chemicals that will make people crazy hyperactive and self-destructive and also 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-15295","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\/15295","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=15295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15296,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15295\/revisions\/15296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}