The Libya Connection

I thought this book was pretty standard, up until Bolan found Eve. Then Bolan turned into A war machine, And killed everybody! Those scenes saved this book from a 5 or 6 star rating.

I wasn't really thrilled with this book. The author created a story with a long-lost love from Mack Bolan being kidnapped. This led to Mack's involvement with a terrorist bent on capturing a bio weapon. While I didn't like the overall story, I did fine the action sequences -- especially toward the end -- very enjoyable. Jack Grimaldi joined in for a series of well-written aerial battles that at least made the final pages enjoyable. For what it's worth, the book cover was phenomenal.

Average entry in the Bolan series. An enjoyable read, but hardly compelling. Very little suspense or tension in the work. The characters and the villains scheme seem particularly dull and flat. There were some enjoyable parts, but if you are not hell bent on reading all the books, you can probably just skip over this one.

Huge book how the author managed to fit in as much as he did is amazing. A Soviet backed attack on Libya coupled with a stolen Strain 7 Bio Terrorist weapon add in one of the most notorious terrorists on the planet a butcher Turkey Maker and a loved partner from the Big Guy's past and yep this one has it all. Non stop action scenes abound throughout the title as the Big Guy chases the Bio weapon and the terrorists from location to location culminating in an attack on their base located in the Libyan desert. Superb finish with helicopter fights and Jack coming in late to assist with a VTOL jet fighter reaches a fantastic conclusion but no a little more is added on at the end to tie off nicely all of the storyline sub plots. Highly recommended reading again from this author.

Not a bad read but at times a little over the top. One mistake was the V/STOL 1041 as explained by the admiral has air to air and air to surface missles but no cannon or machine gun capabilities, then when Grimaldi shows up at the Aujila oasis camp he opens up with 50 caliber machine gun fire???? Would have liked it better if when Mack found Eve turned into a turkey and then turned into Mack the "killing machine" that it would have had a little more emotion and description, seemed to me like the author just wanted to end the story here. Still like it though as I enjoy all the Mack Bolan series.

A by the numbers book, Bolan tracking down an old ally whos been kidknapped by a terrorist mastermind - not an outstanding book , but entertaining - one downside - I found myself in disbelief - "Did Bolan just shoot down a Fighter Jet with a greande launcher ?"... yes , yes he did. I had to shake that one off as it was a little painful ! But I did enjoy ! Eh Kay says - pretty good !

For some reason I didn´t like this book. It started out quite well but after the action was moved to Libya, the book went from interesting and promising to plain boring right away with chapter after chapter of just flat average impersonal action sequence. The book picked up in the end when Bolan went through the torment moment of bidding a personal friend the last goodbye and as a result of that turning into a killing monster from hell, wasting everything and anything in front of him. It was a very touching and heartbreaking moment for Bolan to see the horror of his old lover and fighter and this was short moment but very personal one and so far one of the most personal moments in the Bolan saga so far. The villains had very little characteristics making them just some substitute players in Bolan´s frantic race against time to find his girlfriend of the past and stop the shipment of the deadly virus of ending in the wrong hands. This book was lacking some serious elements in making the book an interesting one but still it could have been make more interesting with some more inside into characters like Santos the butcher instead of having Bolan run around from one thing to another throughout the book. In the end this book didn´t do much for me besides spending my time reading a almost worthless book like this. Sad but true............ (Iceland – 2007)

This is great stuff, I always found Mertz, along with Newton, to really get the real Mack Bolan character down the way Pendleton created him. I feal like I'm reading the original when I read books by these writers. This book is on of the better terrorist war stories.

Bolan's hit on a yacht near the Bahamas leads him around the world to Libya as he tries to rescue an ex-lover. Not a bad tale, but not the best one out there. Some of the descriptions seemed lacking. It was hard to get a feel for the places Bolan visited as the descriptions were somewhat vague. The book is brought out of mediocrity by a poignant flashback and epilogue. Bolan does have feelings, and its good to read about them. These pages are above average in an average book, and the saving grace of this novel.

Mack Bolan is looking for a woman from his past who has been kidnapped by a criminal mastermind. The trail leads from a hot hit on a yacht in Florida to the Libyan desert. I thought this book was OK but not one of the Bolan classics. The story was only OK and the villains never really came alive for me. Bolan seemed to just be knocking over one straw man after another. The action at the opening was good but it was short. After that opening hit on the criminal's yacht there is a long dry spell of no action at all: chapters 3 through 7 are just exposition and getting Bolan into position. Tough to get through. When the action does start up again it moves along relentlessly but curiously I didn't find it compelling. Somehow it didn't seem like Mack Bolan action to me. Still, there is plenty of firepower and plenty of violent action in the last half of the book so some may like this one more than I did. Grimaldi is on hand to lend support in the nick of time as always. OK, one complaint here: when Jack is selecting an aircraft for supporting Bolan he's told by the admiral on the carrier that the Boeing 1041 V/STOL has missiles but is not equipped with cannon or machine guns. Yet, when he later uses this aircraft it has .50 caliber machineguns. I figured either the admiral had no idea what he was talking about or Grimaldi had just hot-rodded the jet a bit. Either way it kind of bothered me. Not a bad read. Just not on a par with the best of Bolan. I give it 6 stars.

Very Touching. The horrors that this man has gone through!

One of the better terrorist war entries. Plenty of action in this one. The scene where he find Eve and how Mack handles it was very well-written. Bolan at his finest.

The Libyan Connection was the first of the "New War" books I'd managed to locate in my early days of Mack Bolan reading, and what better one to start with than this one? Bolan's quest to find a loved one, and what he discovered was a stunning display. And Mack's goodbye to Eve was heartbreaking indeed.

A classic! Bolan's final blitz after finding Eve turned into turkey meat is totally awesome. His war journal log is one that is sure to touch our hearts.