{"id":29239,"date":"2021-11-21T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29239"},"modified":"2021-11-21T05:42:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T11:42:20","slug":"book-report-end-game-the-executioner-218-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/21\/book-report-end-game-the-executioner-218-1997\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>End Game<\/i> The Executioner #218 (1997)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/endgame.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">Well, this is a later (well, middle, since the series goes on for another 20 years) Mack Bolan book.  He is again dealing with terrorists looking to build a nuclear weapon, and this book hopscotches across the world (Scotland, Turkey, the Caribbean) as Bolan chases leads and shoots people and blows up things.  He has the assitance of a Russian agent for a while (spoiler alert), and discovers that a Caribbean dictator deposed by the US has commissioned the device so he can get his revenge by blowing it up in an American city.<\/p>\n<p>Kind of a meh book, to be honest.  A bit sweeping for a Bolan book, but I guess by 1997, even the pulp was packing it on.<\/p>\n<p>This book leaves me with but four Executioner titles in my to-read shelves, which means I have to start thinking about what other series in the line I should start after.  I&#8217;m thinking SuperBolan because I&#8217;m a glutton for punishment.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I get a little money if you click here and buy:<br \/><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=stlbrianj00-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&#038;placement=0373642180&#038;asins=0373642180&#038;linkId=ab4825b11e2759972a5336816aeab470&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=false&#038;price_color=333333&#038;title_color=0066c0&#038;bg_color=ffffff\"><br \/>\n    <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this is a later (well, middle, since the series goes on for another 20 years) Mack Bolan book. He is again dealing with terrorists looking to build a nuclear weapon, and this book hopscotches across the world (Scotland, Turkey, the Caribbean) as Bolan chases leads and shoots people and blows up things. He has [&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-29239","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\/29239","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=29239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29241,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29239\/revisions\/29241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}