Zero Tolerance

Bolan is in the Louisiana bayou taking on a few factions of badguys. The voodoo element added some interesting atmosphere to this novel, which was a plus. The opening action reminded me too much of a similar scene in Newton's American trilogy just before this. My hopes were not high for this book going in, so maybe I enjoyed it because it was much better than I thought it would be. The story moved in more original directions eventually, with only minor formula rewrites here and there. My only gripe really, was the author got too wordy in general, but there was so much action that this didn't get in the way too much. Bolan adds an ally along the way, a DEA agent that is a great addition to the story. The variety of villains in all the factions and their interactions were written well. The shift in the action to Haiti for the last third of the book was decent, but the middle of the book was the best part, I thought. Overall, not a bad book.

I blew through this book in a couple of hours. It was a quick read that was made fun by Mike Newton's characters.DEA agent Tom Carlisle was fantastic ! I could here him talking with his thick Southern/Bayou drawl. I would love to see him reappear in the future.I liked reading this as I was chuckling to myself about the Billy-Bob references. Author Mike Newton does a good job of getting us to use stereotypes to see his characters and them forming his vision of those characters out of them. Having been to the country of Haiti all too recently, he did a good job describing the graft and corruption of the country. While the same time making sure to show the opposite side of the coin in the Haitian Police Seargent who gives his life because he can't be bought. It was nice to get a quick overview of Voo-doo as well. Again Mr. Newton takes a general stereo-type we all know and then writes in the vision he wants us to see. This book had me chuckling at several occassions, it was a well done story that sure was a fun pulp fiction read. The real cherry on top is DEA Agent Tom Carlisle. I hope we see him again.

Crap Crap Crap rewrite rewrite rewrite. HOW MANY TIMES does Mr. Newton rewrite the same book with the names of the already published changed to protect the already published ? the mind boggles and I look forward with some preditation to reading any more of his titles in the series or should I say re-reading his titles. Shall we have a scenario of placing one gang against the other ? Yep AGAIN BUT you have done it so many times ? Shall we have the sniper scene through the window again ? Yep AGAIN BUT you have done it so many times ? PLEASE PLEASE we are not going to have the hostage scene when a female is taken hostage and we will have to save her yet again before we continue the mission. Yep AGAIN BUT you have done it so many times ? BUT HOW MANY TIMES CAN YOU WRITE THIS ????? Unbeleiveable you are one of the best authors in this series of books and you stoop yet again to release this garbage on your readers. In case you were wondering I was annoyed with this title and if you have not read any or much of Mr. Newtons stuff you would love this title but I have re-read it maybe 7 or 8 times now hence the rating..........

I thought this was a fine Bolan adventure, with good research into the Voodoo culture without being sensationalist or condescending. There was also some fine characterization in this one, particularily DEA Agent, Tom Carlisle. His moral problems with throwing away the rule book to pursue justice was nicely handled. There is a great riff on vigilanteism on page 59-60, as seen from a black American's point of view. I do wonder why the author kept refering to a gun used by Agent Carlisle as a "Browning Autoloader". Why not just refer to it as a 9mm Hi-Power?

BEING A BLACK HAITIAN-CANADIAN,I LIKED BOLAN'S (THIRD?AM I RIGHT)TRIP TO HAITI.NOT TOO MANY STEREOTYPES,PLENTY OF ASSKICKING.A GOOD READ. ALSO.CARLISLE SHOULD JOIN ABLE TEAM:A TOUGH,SMART, SLIGHTLY DISILLUSIONED BLACK COP WOULD BE A GREAT ADDITION IF YOU NEED TO SED HIM UNDERCOVER IN "DA HOOD" AS WE "BROTHERS" SAY.

Zero Tolerance was a by the book, no questions asked, classic Bolan Blitz. If anyone asks for a good example of who Mack Bolan is, and what he does, this, and Blood Testament would be two of the books which would show the Bolan Effect in it's fully glory. Further good points were the respect it showed Voodoo, and the nice characterizations. And, once again, we get to see Bolan, yes, as a killing machine, but this killing machine works well because he keeps his foes totally off balance. Bolan succeeds because nobody on hand expects him coming. The New Orleans battle in itself, given a different pica and letter spacing, could have been an ENTIRE Bolan novel. Also, I liked Tom Carlisle... this guy could be excellently groomed for one of the Stony teams, or become a member of a third Stony Man team.

Loved this book too.

this moved very very slow and was vrey very boring. It was just bolan going from crack house to crackhouse burning them. but it picked up at the end. Not what i would expect from mike newton.

Nice story. I like all the history on Voodoo that was explained. It wasn't just the average shoot-em-up. Clear reasons were explained for why characters acted as they did. The first scene was especially frightening. I almost wish the scene in the swamp (the danger, the gators, snakes, etc) were exposed more. That was a frightening scene in and of itself, it could have been explored a little more. But overall, a really good story.