Free (nook/Kindle/Kobo/iTunes) War Against the Mafia by D. Pendleton [Vintage Action]

[ATDrake]

The Executioner: War Against the Mafia by the late Don Pendleton (SYKM, Wikipedia), widely considered the founder of the modern action adventure thriller genre For Men™, is the ground-breaking vintage classic 1st in his wildly popular and long-running series starring ex-Vietnam War vet Mack Bolan, which is now up to some 400+ tie-in franchise continuations written by an assortment of ghostwriters (Wikipedia), this installment being one of the handful of original ones actually written by Pendleton, with a plotline revolving around Exactly What It Says In The Title as a good action adventure thriller For Men™ should, free courtesy of publisher Open Road Media, who are e-printing it from its original 1969 publication.

This is one of their rare non-public domain supplementary freebies to their regular daily PD giveaways.

Currently free just for today (July 7th) @ B&N, Amazon (not free for Canadians, which Amazon has this nasty habit of regularly skipping the ORM freebies, but at least we've got alternatives), Kobo & iTunes & Google Play (all available to Canadians).

Unlikely to cross the pond, as ORM freebies are typically only discounted in North America. However, their reprints are couponable or otherwise eligible for discounts, and do tend to sometimes be additionally marked down to $2.99 or less (usually also just in North America, which unfortunately doesn't help overseas Gentle Readers who are unwilling to lie about their origins).

And this has been the (late!) selected 3rd (non-repeat) free ebook thread of the day.

Because not only is this a real treat for Mack Bolan fans (of whom there are sufficient out there to support a 400+ novel continuation of an ancient 60s-era series, and statistically we should have at least a few lurking around MR), but it's also rather nice for Gentle Readers in general to get the original introduction to a character which could inspire such a long-running franchise and devoted fanbase over the decades from a publisher who've always been generous with the discounts and freebies.

(ETA: here's a nifty review of this with some backgrounder info about Pendleton and the writing of the original series. Apparently the entire Pinnacle Books line was created to support and promote these.)

Enjoy!

Description
To avenge his family, a soldier brings home the Vietnam War

In the jungles of Southeast Asia, no sniper was more ruthless than Mack Bolan. After twelve years in-country, with ninety-five confirmed kills, he comes home to the United States only to find that his father has gone berserk, slaughtering his family before taking his own life. But Mack knows his father was no killer. He was under pressure from a gang of Mafia thugs who were after his money and were willing to destroy his life to get it. For the sake of his old man, Bolan declares war on the men who drove him mad.

Five loan sharks are getting into their car when a bullet slams one of them to the ground. Before the others can draw their guns, four more shots ring out, leaving them as the first casualties in the Executioner’s war. From his hometown to every city in America, Mack Bolan will deliver justice from the barrel of a gun.

[Apache]

Thank you, I read the early Executioner books when I was young. It is going to be nice to read number one again at my age.
Apache

[fjtorres]

Brings back memories.
Too bad the rest of the early books are priced beyond what nostalgia can justify.

[Ravensknight]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

Brings back memories.
Too bad the rest of the early books are priced beyond what nostalgia can justify.

That is what Kobo coupons, or Amazon points, are for.
That is how I ended up buying the whole set, 2-4 books at a time and worth every penny.

[koland]

Was anyone able to download the EPUB on this one from Google? I usually don't have problems, but I get the ACSM file and it just triggers an error message that the content file isn't found (at google website, from the pathname displayed).

[FizzyWater]

Originally Posted by koland

Was anyone able to download the EPUB on this one from Google? I usually don't have problems, but I get the ACSM file and it just triggers an error message that the content file isn't found (at google website, from the pathname displayed).

I'm not sure this is your problem (can't remember the exact wording now), but are you still using ADE 1.7? Google put through a change in the last couple of months that users have to be using at least ADE 2.0 now. The description you gave doesn't sound like a match for this error, but I wanted to throw it up here, just in case....

[koland]

Originally Posted by FizzyWater

I'm not sure this is your problem (can't remember the exact wording now), but are you still using ADE 1.7? Google put through a change in the last couple of months that users have to be using at least ADE 2.0 now. The description you gave doesn't sound like a match for this error, but I wanted to throw it up here, just in case....

That's probably it.

Can't upgrade though, as the new epub format doesn't work with older readers ....

so, will scratch google from my list - won't bother with their books anymore, same as B&N, unless I'm willing to read on a computer or tablet (which, pretty much, means never).

[bgalbrecht]

Originally Posted by koland

That's probably it.

Can't upgrade though, as the new epub format doesn't work with older readers ....

so, will scratch google from my list - won't bother with their books anymore, same as B&N, unless I'm willing to read on a computer or tablet (which, pretty much, means never).

I think ADE 2.0.1 only supports the original DRM and ePub2. I downloaded 2.0.1 from Adobe and installed it tonight and didn't have any problems with downloading from Google Play and processing them, but my oldest reader is a Nook Simple Touch.

[koland]

I'll download it and test on a new computer that doesn't have ADE and see. Thanks.