SuperBolan · #170

Nightmare Army

by Travis Morgan · December 2014

5.0 / 10 average from 3 rated reviews

Attacked by a horde of feral, rampaging villagers infected by a synthetic virus, Mack Bolan barely escapes the isolated mountain town in time to witness a mysterious black ops team as they raze the place and kill all its inhabitants. Determined to find the source of this powerful bioweapon, Bolan tracks the virus to a secret facility, where scientists are working to make the infected victims stronger, swifter and more deadly. But the wealthy industrialist who turns out to be funding this research has his sights set on all-out toxic warfare. Now that it's ready, the germ will be unleashed on a mass scale across the European Union, targeting specific ethnic groups for destruction. With millions of lives at stake, Bolan has no choice but to embark on a seek-and-destroy mission.

Reviews (3)

Jonathan 7/10 October 23, 2023

And again I find myself going against the general opinion. Sure, this is a zombie story, and several movies are referenced, but I still found the first part of the story fun. The second part, the trip to Congo was less interesting, but being trapped in the village during a mission that gets out of control was good reading. The villain I found to be a bit shallow, and could have been developed better, but overall a fun adventure.

Gunslinger 5/10 September 20, 2015

Sort of torn over this one. Like the previous reviewer said...good storytelling and wildly entertaining with the "28 Days Later" plot. Bolan was not even featured that much for nearly the first quarter or so. He's dropped into a town that has gone completely nuts with a contagion. If it was a regular story, it all unfolded decently enough. When that part of the plot is concluded, it gets back to normal with Bolan tracking the bad guys to Africa, getting captured, and injected with the virus. Action scenes were just so-so all the way through, but it did have a good confrontation with the main bad guy at the end. So, points for being different, but just an average SuperBolan.

BolanFan 3/10 February 22, 2015

I did not like this book at all. I fear for someone who makes reading this his/her first Bolan adventure. In fairness, the story-telling is good. The author described scenes vividly enough that it put the reader right there. He can really write. However, I did not like the plot as it didn't seem anything like a Mack Bolan book. The main antagonist is attempting genocide and creates a virus that turns people seemingly into zombies...their called "crazies" in the book. He then turns this virus loose in an Armenian town to monitor the results and efforts of his work. It just so happens that Bolan is in this Armenian town to capture an Armenian crime lord. So, Mack is thrust in the middle of this scene with all of these virus-infected crazed people. For ~100 pages in the book, it was more like a Stephen King book than a Mack Bolan. When the Armenian crime lord and Bolan are trapped in a vehicle with the "crazies" breaking into it and the crime lord asks Bolan if he's seen the movie World War Z, I strongly considered stopping reading. Oh and Bolan ends up getting infecting with the virus, but he's able to fend off the virus' impact and control it. Far from the story type that interests me with Mack Bolan's universe...