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These books were double the size of a regular Executioner novel and were released every other month. Technically the first "Super Bolan" book was Stony Man Doctrine (1983) which is also considered the first book in the "Stony Man" series. The Super Bolan's then commenced with Book #2 in 1985 and ran a total of 178 novels.
Following the exploits of Mack Bolan and his war against organized crime and international terrorism, both series collectively total 631 novels (453 regular Executioner titles, plus 178 Super Bolan titles). [1] The series ceased publication in late 2017. The list below only covers up to the year 2003.
Created and initially written by American author Don Pendleton in 1969, who wrote 37 of the original 38 Bolan books (#16 was written by one "Jim Petersen" during a legal dispute between Pendleton and Pinnacle) [2] before he licensed the rights to Gold Eagle in 1980. Since 1981, the series has been written collectively by a series of ghostwriters.
As with The Executioner, the Able Team novels have been written by a succession of authors under the pseudonym "Dick Stivers". In 1991, Gold Eagle combined Able Team with another Executioner spin-off series, Phoenix Force, and launched the Stony Man book series, which ran 140 novels and ended in 2015. Lyons, Blancanales and Schwarz were always ...
Phoenix Force is supported by the Stony Man crew. This crew provides a wide variety of expertise, ranging from piloting aircraft or hacking into a computer database. Stony Man crew members: Hal Brognola Harold Brognola is the Stony Man project director. He is responsible for assigning missions to both Phoenix Force and Able Team, as well as ...
The 1986 action movie Jake Speed is a direct takeoff-parody of Mack Bolan, who (as a character) is mentioned several times, and several Bolan books are shown alongside the Jake Speed books, in which Wayne Crawford plays the titular character, a real life version of a fictional character. In one scene, the back of a Bolan book has words changed ...
Donald Eugene Pendleton (December 12, 1927 – October 23, 1995) was an American author of fiction and non-fiction books, best known for his creation of the fictional character Mack Bolan, which have sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide since the character's 1969 debut.
Stony Man Sky Killers (2002), novel Space Shuttles Enterprise Atlantis Discovery: Contemporary Enterprise is destroyed in orbit by stealth satellite using railgun. Atlantis launch is aborted due to irregular booster firing pattern; crew escapes using slidewire system. Discovery launches successfully with replacements for destroyed satellites. [19]