{"id":8759,"date":"2010-12-28T14:57:32","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T20:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=8759"},"modified":"2010-12-28T14:57:32","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T20:57:32","slug":"book-report-mack-bolan-cambodia-clash-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/28\/book-report-mack-bolan-cambodia-clash-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Mack Bolan: Cambodia Clash<\/i> (1984)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book is 25 books later into the series than <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/08\/book-report-double-crossfire-the-executioner-40-by-don-pendleton-1982\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Double Crossfire<\/em><\/a>, and they really must have been churning them out by this time.  Much has happened in the Executioner&#8217;s world.  He&#8217;s no longer doing terrorists in Turkey, now he&#8217;s freelancing or something and he&#8217;s in Southeast Asia, rescuing POWs.  It was what all the pulp guys were doing in that era.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the quality has declined greatly, and the character has changed.  Now, instead of just killing bad guys, he&#8217;s also beating a Russian KGB official&#8217;s wife together with a chair leg as part of a trap.  Not because she was going to squeal, but because she had to die.  So it&#8217;s lost some of the essence of the character.  The plot is movieish and a quick bunch of set pieces.<\/p>\n<p>You want to know what caliber of book this is?  At the end, Mack Bolan saves the POWs, who are repatriated through a bureaucratic process.  Bolan goes to meet his Khmer guide, Eng, an attractive woman who leads a band of resistance fighters.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She looked up into his eyes.  &#8220;Will you return to Bangkok with me?&#8221; she asked.<br \/>\nThen Bolan read the look.  It was longing, plain and simple.  He realized now that she liked him more than just a friend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, have mercy.<\/p>\n<p>I got another later in the Executioner line here to read.  I&#8217;ll probably hit it sometime next year.  And, sadly, I&#8217;ll probably pick up more.  On the one hand, with a series like this written by the shop writers, the quality is bound to be uneven to say the least.  On the plus side, they can&#8217;t all be as bad as this, can they?<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned in 2011 for answers.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=B0019ERP9U\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is 25 books later into the series than Double Crossfire, and they really must have been churning them out by this time. Much has happened in the Executioner&#8217;s world. He&#8217;s no longer doing terrorists in Turkey, now he&#8217;s freelancing or something and he&#8217;s in Southeast Asia, rescuing POWs. It was what all the [&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-8759","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\/8759","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=8759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8761,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759\/revisions\/8761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}