A small African nation comes under siege when its president and his cabinet are kidnapped by a band of ruthless guns for hire. Their leader is a glory-seeking, modern day Teutonic warrior who yields a machine pistol instead of a sword. The Desert Knights cut a grisly path of slaughter through city streets and swirling sands, forcing the U.S. to take an arm's-length approach by sending in Mack Bolan. With freedom and justice hanging in the balance, the arm becomes a hammer as the Executioner escorts the Desert Knights on a brief tour of hell.

Hinshaw... Worthy... Morales — names with ghostly echoes from Mack Bolans military past. Add an abandoned combat training center in the Arizona wasteland, a kinky U.S. Senator, a badly soiled "businessman", a self-exiled Mafia chieftain with new territorial ambitions, and a cadre of combat veterans... and it means war in the desert for the Executioner.

Mack Bolan is informed that Mafia overlords are meeting in Florida toomake arrangements to wipe him out — permanently! He penetrates their inner council, only to encounter the guns of the dreaded Talifero brothers. They are skilled "enforcers" whose cold-blooded modus operandi makes them powerful foes to be feared and respected — even by THE EXECUTIONER! Overcoming near insurmountable odds, Bolan strikes with devastating force — once more catching the Mafia big shots off guard...

School for Assassins! The hot and arid island of Sicily is infamous as the birthplace of the Mafia. From this Mediterranean spawning ground the deadly forces of evil and corruption have spread to all points of the globe. In the U.S. the Mafias influence has become as sophisticated as it is powerful. . . virtually no city is free of the mobs grip, hardly an industry is untouched by their sinister operations. Now, after a long and bloody wipeout trail across our country, Mack Bolan must lash out at the very root of the Mafia monster. Sicily has seemingly been quite remote from the underworld activities on our shores in recent years, but Bolan has discovered that a top Mafia family in the U.S. has masterminded the formation of a small army of killers in Sicily. They are undergoing intensive training in a small village practically in the shadow of Mount Etna. The purpose of their mission is secret. Bolans initial reconnaissance indicates that they are well into final preparations for what could be a major crime campaign. To strike where? And for whom? There is no time to learn more, or even to warn U.S. authorities. Bolan must go it alone, and face an army of assassins!

To avoid federal prosecution, high-ranking members of the Giancarlo Family turn state's evidence against Benito Villani, Chicago's biggest crime boss. But when a security leak permanently silences two of the witnesses, one Fed decides it's time to call in a troubleshooter. Protecting underworld figures like the Giancarlos turns Mack Bolan's blood to ice, but the Executioner has no choice: he either holds hands with the Mob or allows innocent people to burn.

Two men take the same pledge — to see justice done. Mack Bolan, a self-styled executioner, made his vow in silence and alone. Hal Brognola took his oath for all America to see. Hunter and prey in former years, they are now lifelong friends. Their friendship is their strenght — and their weakness. The mission: Mack Bolan must rescue Brognola's kidnapped wife and children, and clear his friend's name of treachery. The enemy that Bolan must face is ruthless and neck deep in the blood of a late U.S. president and his brother. The frame and snatch smell of CIA involvement, and Bolan knows that underworld links with Clandestine Ops run deep at Langley. With these odds, can Bolan stop his friend's world from falling apart?

Mack Bolan continues his war against the Mafia. Back in America after crippling the French and British Syndicates, he discovers the five families of the New York Mafia have plans in the political scene. Its strictly winner-take-all with the biggest stakes yet! Hounded by the Mafias bloodhounds, and the police as well, Bolan must single-handedly foil an assassination plot, which, if it succeeds, would throw the country into panic.

Ravaged by years of tyranny, Haiti is a hellhole of poverty, disease and violence. The new ruling military junta plans to change that — with some assistance from the Mafia. The syndicate's proposed face-lift would turn the island into a mecca of casinos and luxury hotels backed by dirty money and corruption. But the potential Mob stronghold is under attack by one man. Mack Bolan is determined to stop the insidious evil of organized crime clawing at the world's underbelly. The enemy is expecting a war. The Executioner is happy to oblige.

CLASH OF THE GLADIATORS. On a hot August night in a small U.S. town, a high-powered rifle cracks out five times. Five men are executed, without trial or jury. The shots will have a profound effect on the lives of two people: the gunman, Mack Bolan, and the son of one of the dead men. For Bolan it means a life on the run. For the youth it means avenging his father's death. Now, years later and with skills worthy of a warrior, the son finally confronts his father's killer — the Executioner.

A series of "accidents" at nuclear power stations across the United States is destabilizing America's energy program. In the fallout of this highly complex plot, the United States will be forced to rely on Third World oil, oil whose flow is controlled by the Russian KGB. Mack Bolan must push to the core of this sabotage before a full-scale disaster occurs. But it's a race with a temperature gauge that goes only one way — straight toward a nuclear meltdown.

I am not their judge. I am their judgment. I am their executioner. With those words Mack Bolan, a Vietnam hero, embarked on an odyssey of blood that would mark him as the most controversial warrior of modern times. With ultimate faith in his ability to make a difference, the justice fighter saw it his duty to protect the weak and the innocent from all-consuming evil. Now, on trial for his life, the soldiers beloved America is prepared to show him no mercy. Who will be the executioner?

This time, all the stops were out. Mack Bolan became a single-minded, death-spewing avenger the minute Eve disappeared... Someone he cared about, Eve had been swallowed up by the voracious bloodthirst of international terror. Bolan stalked the savages responsible deep into the labyrinth of double-dealing and betrayal that marks modern terrorism. The hunt took him from the lush Caribbean to the scorching Sahara in pursuit of the Libyan connection that held the fate of civilization in its grasp. For The Executioner, it was the toughest mission yet, fueled by the most righteous revenge. Anyone who got in his way... was dead.

Torn by political struggles and underground revolution, the Philippines are wide open to powermongers and would-be messiahs. Now the deadliest and most elusive terrorist-bomber in the world stalks its crowded streets, plotting an act that will shake the country to its core. Working under government cover, Mack Bolan has to infiltrate the terrorist network, find the bomber, then break him. Bolan is thrown headlong into the fire — from an unthinkable airport massacre to the steamy jungle where the heart of terrorism beats relentlessly. In a country where white-hot violence has become almost a way of life, the Executioner is about to cause some scorching heat of his own.

Billowing clouds of smoke violate the neon glow of the Nishi-Ginza when an explosion rips through one of Tokyo's crowded pachinko parlors. It's a deadly beginning to a trail of deceit and revenge that leads Mack Bolan to a group of corrupt U.S. servicemen operating a drug pipeline back to the States. Their Japanese leader has ambitious plans: he intends to cripple America with the very weapon that scarred him. Bolan follows his own code of honor to prevent a nuclear bomb from creating another Nagasaki.

The KGB makes an offer to the European Mafia that it cannot refuse: create a single worldwide syndicate in return for an unlimited arms supply. The Russians believe that such a crime force would destabilize the West, paving the way for a Soviet takeover. Mack Bolan poses as a German hit man to smash the evil alliance before it takes root.

The brutal elimination of several small-time Mexican coyotes and the discovery of a boxcar full of dead illegals tell the Arizona Border Patrol that something big is up - someone is trying to corner the market in cheap labor. It's a slick operation, always one step ahead of Mack Bolan — until the bullet-riddled trail leads the Executioner to a man with the money, power and killing urge to turn the dreams of the destitute into a life of misery. Carlos Calderone trades in a perishable commodity - human flesh. It's time to put the greedy maverick out of business. Bolan is ready to foreclose.

Colonel Hector Alchupa is about to launch the most daring coup the lower Americas have ever seen. Backed by dirty money and corrupt officials, this man who would be king assembles five of the world's premier assassins in his Amazon compound. Their mission: to collect the million-dollar bounty placed on the head of Mack Bolan, the only obstacle between Alchupa and the conquest of Brazil. Caught between warring mercenary armies, the Executioner turns deadly predator - and stalks his prey to Washington's corridors of power.

"This land is mine…" The Syrians are seeking territorial control of the Middle East, and they have a plan to annex Israel and drive the Israelis into the sea. The Syrian weapon: canisters of deadly nerve gas stolen from the United States. But the Israeli nation, forged in the fires of time, has vowed it would never again be subjected to the horror of another holocaust. Political and racial passions smolder under a terrorist sun as Mack Bolan, a lone missionary of justice, battles the disciples of death in the Holy Land.

The call to Mack Bolan is urgent, almost frantic. Rosario Blancanaless kid sister, Toni, has been raped and beaten — but at least she is still alive, unlike the five otehr victims whose throats were slashed by the Minneapolist maniac. In a raging search-and-destroy assault, Mack Bolan makes his presence felt throughout the Twin Cities, from the lowest mob hangouts to the police department and into the City Hall itself. A psychopathic killer is being protected by some powerful force. For Mack Bolan there will be no intermissions, no pardons, no excuses: he will be fighting for one of his closest friends. He is once again judge, jury... and Executioner.

Mack Bolan, exhausted by the firestorm that is his life, decides to take a well-deserved R and R. But instead of some tropical resort, the Executioner plans to challenge natures whims in the depths of an Icelandic glacier. On a perilous trip beneath the polar ice cap, he makes a discovery to startling it is tantamount to an act of war. And the innocent vacation becomes a hunt — with Bolan as the prey.

OUT OF THE ASHES. In the heat of an upcoming U.S.-Soviet summit, a dozen people in the Washington, D.C., Federal Witness Protection Program are executed. While acting as a security consultant for the President, Mack Bolan starts digging — and discovers much more than a Mafia-backed vendetta. The witness strike is part of a sinister scheme to draw the attention of D.C. law enforcement away from the real targets: the American President and the Russian premier. A madman's blueprint for world domination is about to unfold. His brilliant plan has been forty years in the making. The Executioner has only minutes to stop it.

ASSASSIN'S CREED. The world is being held hostage, terrorized by fanatical mercenaries whose services are available to anyone who can pay the price. Intel from Stony Man Farm reveals that a zealous desert sheikh has resurrected the centuries-old cult of the Assassins, self-destructing killers who willingly sacrifice their lives for the glory of God. When a specialist is needed to infiltrate the cults ranks, Mack Bolan is dropped into Syria's hostile terrain — and finds himself facing one of the most difficult challenges of his life. And possibly his last.

Mack Bolan, wounded and run to earth, is trapped in an isolated Kansas farmhouse. Outside, the dogs of death are waiting for nightfall before they rip him apart. As a hired killer, "The Cowboy" sells his service only to the highest bidder. Although he has his mark cornered, he knows this hit is the toughest yet. By morning he'll deliver the targets head to his demonic employer. The Executioner rediscovers, in the indomitable spirit of a struggling farm family, the eternal dream of the American heartland - his land, his dream. These are the people he always fought to protect — the good and the innocent. But his very presence makes them certain victims - unless he destroys the slavering menace.

ACADEMY OF DEATH. The bizarre killing of an ex-Vietnam buddy brings Mack Bolan to a military academy in California. In his role as survival instructor at the school, the Executioner uncovers a plot so sinister, it rivals any atrocity he has yet encountered in his war on evil. Bolan finds himself caught in a maze of murder, high-tech crime and international intrigue. He must protect his cover at any cost — or face sudden death.

An American agent is gunned down in Luxemburg before he reveals the code to a hologram that contains the blueprint for a sweeping Mafia takeover in Europe. The Mob wants in on what the U. S. government knows. They're certain that one man can tell them. Kidnapped in a fast, well-planned raid and transported halfway across the world, Mack Bolan plays cat and mouse with his enemies through the streets of Europe. For a man between missions, he'd been pulled into a hot one. But hard intel gets fast answers... and puts the Executioner on top of a double-barrel assignment: find the missing code... and stop worldwide Mafia tyranny dead in its tracks.

The militant brother of an Arab ruler has kidnapped a brilliant young American. And Mack Bolan knows that in wrong hands the teenagers knowledge of nuclear devices could change the course of history. The Executioner faces awesome odds as he blitzes a forbidding desert fortress in the tiny oil sheikhdom. His mission: to rescue the hostage and stop the rebels plans to launch a holy revolution.

The dreaded Black Hand has let out a $100,000 contract on Bolan's life, and every trigger-happy gunman in the country is trying to collect. At the same time, local, state, and federal police forces have banded together in the greatest manhunt in history to stop Bolan. Fired with a holy vengeance, Bolan recruits nine buddies — all heroes of the Vietnam war, all specialists in the more sophisticated aspects of meting out death.

Mack Bolan sensed danger when he lost contact with Stony Man Farm. The Phoenix fortress in Virginias Blue Ridge Mountains should be impenetrable. But was it? Bolan returned home to find the Stony strongholds security violated and ace armorer, Andrzej Konzaki, mortally wounded. A web of treachery now enshrouded the Farm, imperiling its existence. In one blood-drenched night, Bolan embarked on an odyssey of revenge. From D.C.s corridors of power to the cathouse depths of sewer city, he pursued an elusive specter who bartered in mens souls. And each time the trail led to a dead end. Who was this faceless enemy?

School for Assassins! The hot and arid island of Sicily is infamous as the birthplace of the Mafia. From this Mediterranean spawning ground the deadly forces of evil and corruption have spread to all points of the globe. In the U.S. the Mafias influence has become as sophisticated as it is powerful. . . virtually no city is free of the mobs grip, hardly an industry is untouched by their sinister operations. Now, after a long and bloody wipeout trail across our country, Mack Bolan must lash out at the very root of the Mafia monster. Sicily has seemingly been quite remote from the underworld activities on our shores in recent years, but Bolan has discovered that a top Mafia family in the U.S. has masterminded the formation of a small army of killers in Sicily. They are undergoing intensive training in a small village practically in the shadow of Mount Etna. The purpose of their mission is secret. Bolans initial reconnaissance indicates that they are well into final preparations for what could be a major crime campaign. To strike where? And for whom? There is no time to learn more, or even to warn U.S. authorities. Bolan must go it alone, and face an army of assassins!

Mack Bolan, Americas one-man army, rocks London in his war on the Mafia.

Using the American tradition of freedom of religion as a smoke screen, a cultist group had gone mad in the streets of San Francisco. People were being slaughtered in the name of a bizarre new sacrilege, The Universal Devotees. Killings were random, senseless... Mack Bolan quickly identified the devil incarnate — Nguyen Van Minh, a stateless Asian refugee who had mastered mind-control on a massive scale. Bolan smelled KGB. Evidence grew that the killer creed was a Soviet weapon for wholesale butchery. When a senators lovely young daughter was sucked into its ranks, The Executioner launched the one deadly brand of combat — firestorms of glory that scorch yet revive the earth — that could crush Minhs blasphemy at its accursed heart.

Mack Bolan, the one-man war machine, bets his life against the Mafia forces of glittering Las Vegas... and theres no business like show business once The Executioner gets in the act!

A police chief betrays his code of honor to the Mafia and tries to persuade fellow officers to accept money from the Mob. Those who refuse are killed. Through all his miles along the hellfire trail, the Executioner has always looked on the police as soldiers on the same side. But Mack Bolan sees this lawman as a traitor, both to his badge and to Bolans cause. Will the warrior break his own rules to stop the corrupt cop?

$150 Million Plus. Thats the mobs annual "take" in Detroit. Fact, not fiction. The Mafia has big muscles in autotown. Mack Bolans one-man war on the Mafia shifts into high gear in Detroit!

The major mover in the cocaine trade has always escaped U.S. Government indictment. Now, with a little persuasion from the DEA, the drug king's top lieutenant has turned stoolie. His testimony will topple a million-dollar empire…if the DEA can get him to Los Angeles alive. Worried inside leaks, the Feds call in unofficial escort. The two-thousand mile run becomes a cross-country killing-ground as the Bolan brothers and their charge are ambushed at every turn by free-lance gunners hungry for the bounty on the stoolie's head. Two men against an army. But when the name is Bolan… it's enough.

Ayatollah Khomeine, a power-mad tyrant is using religion to mesmerize his people and enforce his crazed will. Thousands of Iranians are butchered in acts that are pitching the country into a relentless downward spiral toward the Dark Ages. Combat specialist Mack Bolan answers a call from rebel forces to help save a once-great country from certain doom.

Mack was back in an undercover role. Posing as a U.S. Army sergeant selling guns to terrorists, Bolan struck deep into the ranks of Europes most brutal group of Kidnappers. A team of world-class athletes had been taken hostage. The captors — the Zwilling Horde. The aim— pirating of a deadly chemical weapon. The answer — Mack Bolan! The Executioner was up against fearsome adversaries — the vicious Tania, who liked to scorch the flesh of friends, and the hideous Rudi, a giant hulk whose battle with Bolan added a new dimension to savagery. But they didnt have a chance in hell. When Bolan is reduced to bare fists, only the dead are safe!

CRIMEAN DEADLOCK Ukrainian militants are the initial suspects in a terrorist attack on Washington, DC, until rumors surface suggesting Moscow was behind the bombing. But the investigation only raises more questions. Was the attack an attempt to mute US criticism of Russia, or a call to action to help suppress Ukrainian dissidents? Only one man can solve the riddle and mete out appropriate punishment: Mack Bolan. From Manhattan's Little Ukraine to the war-torn country itself, Bolan blazes a path of truth and justice to neutralize the threat...and prevent another slaughter on American soil even as the danger increases with enemies and allies emerging on both sides of the Crimean conflict. But the Executioner is no middleman; he has his own war to fight, and he won't stop until his opponents are ashes.

The Executioner poses as a convict to spring a man marked for death by a mystery assassin. Mack Bolan wants to know why a petty embezzler is the target of an international hit man. But Bolans plan is foiled by a group known as the Savannah Swingsaw — four female vigilantes who break him out instead, in a baffling move that fires the big warrior to blazing action.

The sunny Golden Gate city finds out what the Executioner is all about when he explodes into their midst, hot on the trail of the inner enemy and "Mr. King," the behind-the-scenes boss of all that moves and breathes in the western states. Bolans assault blazes a wide swath, zeroing in on the kingpins home base. A deadly Chinese Communist cell, some misled ecology freaks and a group of militant leftists all find themselves in danger of being burned by the swiftly racing torch of the Executioner. No one is going to stop him this time. No way.

Mack Bolan faces the battle of his life as he invades the nerve-center of the Mafias powerful U.S. Operations.

The Executioner invades the Mafia encampments in the San Diego area.

A private army of killers bursts across the Mexican border into Arizona, seeking revenge for an attack on their narcotics stronghold. They discover their quarry holed up in tiny desert town and issue an ultimatum: surrender the target or die! Seriously injured in the brutal firefight at the druglord's rancho, the Executioner is trapped in an ever-tightening circle of doom. As the noose closes around him, can Bolan summon the strength to prevent the annihilation of his desert sanctuary?

The bloody trail of a loansharking operation in Oregon leads Mack Bolan to a massive shipload of illegal arms bound for Portland. Bolan refuses to consider the cost in innocent lives if the weapons fall into Mafia hands. He races against time to smash the smugglers, and his brother Johnny learns some big secrets about the Executioner.

America's most horrible plague is given new life when a deadly batch of heroin hits the streets of New York. Mack Bolan traces the source to the Golden Triangle and finds himself in the clutches of a powerful syndicate in Thailand. This ruthless empire is ruled by a CIA agent who turned druglord when Saigon fell. But even captivity in a nightmarish jungle hell cannot stop the Executioner as he unleashes raw fury to destroy the enslavers of America's youth.

Mack Bolan's probe into a secret European escape network uncovers a much more sinister scheme: the Mafia plans to take over the operation and extend its pipeline of corruption across the globe. Posing as an escaped convict anxious to bury his freedom, Bolan infiltrates the network and embarks on a bloody chase across Europe. But in order to blow the international conspiracy wide open, the Executioner first has to neutralize the man at the top — with nothing but a stainless steel avenger between himself and oblivion.

Mack Bolan persuades a Mafia target to betray the brotherhood, as a trade for a new life in the federal witness program. But the Mob snatches the informant before he has a chance to "sing." The trail of the traitor leads the Executioner to New York, where the local don is holding court to pick a Mafia monarch for the vacant throne. Bolan crashes the coronation dinner to find the head of the snitch on the royal menu.

Mack Bolan agrees to bury the hatchet with the CIA to help an imperiled Company mole in Moscow. Under official U.S. sanction the Executioner penetrates the Kremlin with a personal vendetta in mind. Bolan ends the blood fued when he buries the hatchet deeper than anyone expects: right into the heart of the troubled KGB high command.

Mack Bolan's war takes him south of the border, following a trail he thinks will lead him to the heart of the Medellin drug cartel. Saddled with a bush-league mercenary coerced into fingering key Medellin strike zones, the Executioner is walking a deadly tightrope straight to hell. As he cuts a deep swath through th hierarchy of the most notorious narcotics distributors in the world, Bolan uncovers a sinister conspiracy between the Cartel and the Cuban premier that could push his Everlasting War into the no-win zone. But the Executioner vows to stalk his prey to the highest corridors of power. He knows the bigger they are… the harder they fall.

Someone is stealing America's children, and the disappearances are shattering the structure of U.S. Society, leaving families in total despair. With the police and federal agencies handcuffed by laws and procedures, the situation is critical. Mack Bolan fears for these innocent lives at the hands of human predators. The Executioner searches high and low for targets in Chicago — and finds them: from a high-profile politician to a Mafia kingpin.

Midnight. Suddenly the Moscow sky bursts into broad daylight. Eight hours later a similar flash also bathes Washington D.C., in its glaring spill. Twenty-five thousand miles above the two capitals, exploding hydrogen warheads have ruptured the night. In the name of peace, a misguided U.S. scientist has cracked the access code to an orbiting missile and detonated two of its MIRV warheads. And that is just a warning. Mack Bolan, destined to patrol the desolate hinterland of terrorism, learns of this horrifying event from a secret link. Thermonuclear doom! The words echo in The Executioners mind as he assaults the scientists hissing snakepit.

War hero Mack Bolan, wearing a new Sicilian-style face fashioned for him by a plastic surgeon and ex-war buddy, infiltrates the inner family of the Mafia. Aided by the head mans beautiful daughter, Bolan almost becomes son-in-law and heir-apparent to the powerful Di George West Coast empire. Still hunted by police and mafiosi alike, with a $100,000 price tag on his head, the Executioner evades all the dragnets and strikes a crippling blow against the "invincible" underground organization before his identity is uncovered and he disappears — to fight another day.

Bolan collides with a deadly Northwest Mafia strike force!

Mack Bolan, the one-man war machine, bets his life against the Mafia forces of glittering Las Vegas... and theres no business like show business once The Executioner gets in the act!

When a human rights activist is brutally murdered in America's Deep South, his father's suspicions fall on the Aryan Vanguard, a close-knit brotherhood dedicated to the legacy of Adolf Hitler. Desperate to bring justice to his son's killers, he enlists the help of his old friend Mack Bolan. But when Bolan infiltrates the organization as a gun for hire, he uncovers a darker menace beneath the seething anger of the white supremacists - an alliance between a Soviet "sleeper" and an enemy he'd thought long dead.

Rumors and rumbles of a Cuban exile connection with the Mafia crime machine in Miami have come to Bolans ears. The Executioner enters an old battleground, only to find hordes of Cuban outcasts crowding the city center, and the teeming core of Miami pulsing to a new Latin death song. Grim specters and faithful friends of a former life weave a deja vu tapestry as Bolan hits both the Mob and an exile splinter movement. Clouds of terror hang low over Americas southern ocean playground. The rumbles are turning to thunder. Unless Bolan can stop the Havana hurricane, Miami and its beaches will be awash in blood!

A federal government agent was missing, a very special agent. Mack Bolan found her in a chicken coop in Kansas. At first the sultry beauty did not recognize Mack. At first she could only moan. Her name was Smiley Dublin, a Ranger girl from Bolans war against the Mafia. She had fallen prey to pitiless slavers who treated humans like cattle- abducting, drugging, beating, selling them. Bolans gut burned. In a Jersey warehouse, he squeezed Tommy the Weasel till he squealed, then followed a trail of horror all the way to Algiers. He would make the flesh peddlers pay with their blood.

Frank Edwards, a busted CIA agent, was trafficking with terrorists in Europe. His illegal-weapons supplier was a Defense Department contractor in Massachusetts. His European connection was a high-ranking British Intelligence Officer. Macks task: eliminate all of these bastards. He blows the hell out of an armament factory in New England, flattens a munitions warehouse at Londons Heathrow airport. Then on to Frank Edwards base to bring hell on earth. The man from blood moves with the speed of a shock wave. To the Executioner, there is no worse scum than a turncoat agent.

Theres a wild card in Vegas. The Mafia, the Japanese yakuza and the Vegas Old Guard each want control of the city. Mack Bolan is the new player and hes dealing in death, with skills learned in a hell called Nam and honed to a sharp edge in the urban jungle. To shave the odds the Executioner pulls a Joker from the deck, Tommy Anders. The game is down to one last hand — winner takes all.

The Russians want Afghanistan. But not its people. And a soviet cannibal has found a weapon to annihilate the populace — a chemical called Devils Rain. With intell supplied by a CIA spook, Mack Bolan leads a unit of the feared mujahedeen, the holy warriors of Islam, in a campaign to stop an atrocity that will kill millions!

The largest private gun squad in history follows Bolan to France, only to find the war has started without them, and 20 dead Frenchmen are mute testimony to the profinciency of the Executioner...

Israel — a nation born of war and nurtured under siege — is the target for a daring raid by a Palestinian suicide squad. More than six thousand miles away in a Florida safehouse, Mack Bolan learns of the plot from a mortally wounded agent of sabra — a covert Israeli strike force. When the Executioner discovers an arms deal between the Mafia and the PLO, he joins the sabra commandos to crush the terrorist invaders.

Stop the Assassination! The directive came from the White House, and the target was less than twenty miles away in an affluent Maryland suburb. For Mack Bolan it was a very strange assignment: tooprotect a high-level Iranian exile, General Eshan Nazarour, from imminent assassination. It became stranger still when the generals beautiful American wife was kidnapped. Immediately the intrigue, violence — and murder — began to form a familiar pattern. Organized crime was getting involved with foreign subversion. The maze of treachery and terrorism could lead to only one conclusion — the deadly presence of the Executioner: Mack Bolan!

A Mafia hit team is trying to gain control of St. Louis. The Executioner is only too aware that if the attack succeeds, it would be a major setback in his everlasting war. Mack Bolan returns to the Missouri killground to settle an ancient blood debt. And the leader of the hit crew and his Black Ace — one of the brotherhoods assassination elite — are marked for death.

Mack Bolan learns that archenemy Greb Strakhov is in Lebanon. The Executioner has a personal vendetta with the KGB terror merchant. Bolans mission is twofold: to settle the score with Strakhov, and to avenge the 240 U.S. Marines who lie dead in the wake of a suicide-bomber attack. A single life lost is unacceptable to Bolan. But not even the combat-hardened Executioner is prepared for the utter carnage he finds in Beirut. There, Death respects no barriers. In a conflict in which none of the warrior factions seem to want peace, Bolan knows what he has to do. Make sure that the savages instigating the strife are silenced — forever!

A trap! So much for undercover operations, thought Bolan. His nighttime parachute drop into Thailand had become an open secret. Enemy gunfire zeroed in on his position. It was survival time in the jungle again! The Executioner was in Southeast Asias Golden Triangle to strike at the international illicit-drug industry. But his advance man had been captured by the enemy — the 93rd Kuomintang Division of the Nationalist Chinese Army, better known as Tiger Enterprises, the worlds largest heroin ring. Bolans Montagnard army now refused to fight. The tribesmen, traditional enemies of the Chinese for 4,000 years, were fierce warriors but fickle allies. They knew better than to back a loser... But Bolan would not lose. However much death it took.

Lasers! The word holds a promise for peace in the world. And the U.S. is twenty years ahead of its nearest rival in the latest use of the device. But the secret of this technology lies in the tangled psyche of a former POW, brainwashed years before and let loose on an unsuspecting America. And the Russians hold the key. Mack Bolan is frighteningly familiar with the mind-control techniques used on prisoners in Vietnam. The specter of that bloody war haunts The Executioners current mission as a trail of treachery leads him to discover an attempt on the Presidents life and a world-threatening plot masterminded by Bolans deadliest enemy. Strakhov returns.

Aggressive, primitive and violent, the Shining Path murders in the name of freedom. Fanatical terrorists who are trying to destroy Peru's government, the Path's "low budget" warfare has suddenly turned high tech — someone is selling them state-of-the-art weapons. Mack Bolan infiltrates the secretive group and follows an illegal arms shment straight into hell. Framed for murder, locked in a Lima prison, the American warrior struggles to complete a mission that seems to be slipping out of his control. But the Executioner has special treatment for killers whose only reality is a smoking gun — strong medicine in a dose that will leave the Shining Path choking on its own violent prescription.