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Don Pendleton Biography

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Don Pendleton was an American author known for his Western novels. His works are characterized by tense and exciting plots and well-developed characters, which have won the favor of readers.

Men Command Mack

Author:Don Pendleton

“When I wrote War Against the Mafia as a Vietnam statement, I didn't expect much to come of it-but quite a bit came and it captured me. I continued the books to feed the obvious hunger that was there for heroic fiction.”

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Author:Don Pendleton

“Hell was not for the living, it was for the dead, even the hallowed dead. Let the dead rest in peace. Someday Mack Bolan, too, would rest. For now, he had to find his way among the living.”

Way Hell Someday Rest In Peace Mack

Book:Death Squad

Source: Death Squad

“The violence in the Executioner books is merely stage-dressing for dramatizing the commitment and dedication Bolan has to his ideals and the lengths to which he will go to honor them. We can learn this message of love and commitment and carry it into our own lives without the violence and bloodshed, and of course it is this wish that fuels the writing. I do not want my readers to pick up a gun and follow Bolan's example; I want them to be stirred by his commitment and to find ways to meet the same challenges without resort to violent means.”

“In addition to the original Executioner series I have also written a number of other works with diverse taste, even poetry. None, however, have provided the pleasure of touching so many people from so many lands as have the Executioners.”

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Author:Don Pendleton

“Mack Bolan is a classic American hero. Readers like him and I feel very good about that.”

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Author:Don Pendleton

“Life is often more a sweat than a pleasure but, paradoxically, it is the sweat that gives true meaning to all of life's pleasures. This is the message from Mack Bolan, book after book, and it is the only thing dignifying this type of fiction.”

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Author:Don Pendleton

“I have served many long and lonely years aboard ship in war zones, and the only thing that kept me sane during all that enforced loneliness was my access to a good library in which I read, literally, every book on the shelves, even textbooks, and which gave me access to other worlds no way open to me.”

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Author:Don Pendleton

“As you grow older, you will discover that your mind is the only truly limiting factor in your life. With a well developed mind you can go anywhere and do whatever. But nothing comes automatically and the best things don't come easy.”

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Author:Don Pendleton

“Along with everything else, I know that there is a beauty in mankind. It is a beauty that no ugliness, no violence, no hatred and no evil can ever completely erase. I have also learned there is a majesty in mankind. It is a majesty that no sickness, no suffering, no want or lack, no poverty and no pain can ever truly subjugate.”

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Author:Don Pendleton

“Ashton Ford will come as something of a surprise to those of you who have been with me over the years. This is not the same type of fiction that established my success as a novelist; Ford is not a gutbuster and he is not trying to save the world from anything but its own confusion. There are no grenade launchers or rockets to solve his problems and he is more of a lover than a fighter. I have grown, I hope, both as a person and as a writer, and I needed another vehicle to carry the creative quest. Ashton Ford is that vehicle.”

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Author:Don Pendleton

“Poetry can be the bridge, the crossover point in the mind between the physical and the spiritual. A place where the two can meet.”

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Author:Don Pendleton

“Every writer is working from his own individual world view, and that can become as characteristic as a fingerprint.”

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Author:Don Pendleton

About the Author

Born: December 12, 1927
Died: October 23, 1995
Known for: Author
Quotes: 13

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