Thrasher’s Book Club – August 2009 selection

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The Executioner #1: War Against the Mafia

This is where it all began: Don Pendleton’s The Executioner #1: War Against the Mafia is the first in a 600+ novel series providing the archetype for the modern-day action/revenge fantasy.

He was arguably the inspiration for Marvel Comics’s The Punisher and DC’s Vigilante, as well as several feature films.

While the quality of the series as a whole is questionable, the novels penned by Pendleton (1–15, 17–38) are all good reading, if a bit dated forty years later. Still, if you can get your hands on any of these, by all means, do so.

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3. Thrasher’s Book Club – September 2009 selection
4. Thrasher’s Book Club – June 2009 selection
5. Thrasher’s Book Club – July 2009 selection