I was wondering if the day would come when I would run into another book in the Bolan universe that was worth only a 1 out of 10 rating. And here it is with this boring, slow paced, uninteresting, and CONFUSING monstrosity of a book called "Death's Head"
If I were an editor, and this manuscript came accross my desk, I would inform the writer that he should consider a career flipping burgers at his local Micky D's.
This is 347 pages of mind bending, skullbusting, insanity that I consider even worse than Renegade Agent due to the fact that novel was thankfully only around 188 pages. I don't know where to begin ranting about this book, but I will keep it as simple as I can, because I want to forget about this thing as soon as possible.
The story meanders around without going anywhere, there was no reason Bolan should have been on this mission, and the plot, as another reviewer mentioned, seemed to be made up as the author went along. This writer has pissed me off before with his lazy writing in some of his earlier Bolan books, but in "Death's Head", there are more places than I can count where the writing was horrible. Also, there were chapters where the writer couldn't keep a cojent train of thought between one paragraph and another, or even between sentences within a paragraph.
The cast of characters grows larger with each page, many were killed off within pages of their introduction, others were forgotten for hundreds of pages. The muddled plot gets worse as the book goes along, and there doesn't seem to be any reason for anybody doing anything in the story. I never got to care about any of the good guys, and I didn't get any satisfaction when the main badguys bit the bullet later in the book. I got to the point I just wanted to finish the book so I could give it an honest review instead of just giving up with hundreds of pages to go.
The only scene that was any good was Bolan's infiltration and destruction of a warehouse, but even that scene had nothing to do with the rest of the book, or any reason why Bolan knew to go there, or any lasting consequences of the action. The rest of this novel was just a jumbled mess of various factions in Germany doing something, and with perhaps the most bumbling, inept villans that have ever appeared in a Bolan book.
Lets see... there were Soviet Spetznaz, the Green party, skinheads, german terrorists, Basque terrorists, Mossad agents, Bnd agents, double agents, and the ex nazi guy introduced in the prologue, and his daughter, umm... turkish soldiers, demonstraters, counter-demonstrators, german police, and many other characters and factions and sub factions involved, and with all of this, the story is lame, confusing, boring, and just plain dreadfull. And oh yea, there was the mafia too, but somehow they were not a part of this book, not that I would remember or care. That just sums up my whole attitude about the last half of the book. I didn't care what I was reading, and just read each sentence as if nothing had gone before, and somehow trudged through the endless pages, sometimes reading 3 or 4 pages in a day, and having to set the book down to do something else.
Without a doubt the WORST book in this series, so please don't waste your time with this thing, pick up something in the series that has great reviews for it and read that. Even UFORCE was light years ahead in entertainment value compared to Death's Fucking Head!
