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bookfrogMen's Adventure is a genre I feel needs a bit of background. It started somewhere around the late sixties with the idea (I am completely guessing here) that mainstream thrillers weren't enough--men wanted to read stories that were basically action movies in book form. So there were cheap paperbacks, about 200 pages long, with series titles like The Executioner, The Destroyer, M.I.A. Hunter, The Survivalist, Penetrator, and so on. Required for these books were lots of killing, fight scenes, gunfire, and generally right-wing politics. The Destroyer was about an invincible martial art and a secret government agency, and is the one I know the most about. This genre was popular for a long time. When I was in high school, it was still a bookstore section.
This particular book is about a man whose dad, a cop, is set on fire. When the gang members who did it go free, our hero takes a gun and goes out hunting scumbags.
The writing isn't bad, and the guy is at least ambivalent about what he's doing. Decent read.
This particular book is about a man whose dad, a cop, is set on fire. When the gang members who did it go free, our hero takes a gun and goes out hunting scumbags.
The writing isn't bad, and the guy is at least ambivalent about what he's doing. Decent read.
