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“What weapon?” The Colt slipped into the seat between Bolan’s legs. “He said it would be the kindest thing we could do for you. He says you’re a dead man, looking for a place to rest in peace. I don’t believe that, Bolan.”
“Thanks.”
“I believe you’re the livingest son of a bitch I’ve ever seen. And that’s what I want you to know … not just because you saved my life back there … but because I couldn’t have much faith in a world that couldn’t make room for a Mack Bolan. Okay?”
“Okay,” Bolan replied, tight-lipped. “I uh … thanks, Lyons.”
“Sure,” Lyons said solemnly. No thanks were necessary, Lyons knew that. And Bolan knew it.
But that familiar tight feeling in the Executioner’s chest was beginning to dissolve, and Bolan understood that also. The soul was still intact, and it could still respond to a simple act of human friendship.
“Thanks,” Bolan said again.
“I said sure.”
Bolan chuckled and returned the Colt to his friend the cop. “These, uh, feds. They’re after blood too, eh?”
Lyons sighed. “Unofficially, I understand, the order is to shoot on sight.”
Bolan frowned at his cigarette and put it out. “The mad-dog treatment, eh?”
“That’s it,” Lyons replied quickly. “And they’ll consider it an act of mercy, if they can get to you first. The Taliferos, my friend, have some hideous programs in mind for you. Need I, uh, say more?”
No, the shadow from the Executioner’s other lives needed to say no more. Bolan knew very well what to expect if he should be captured alive by the “brotherhood of blood.” And the city of chance lay just ahead. This would be as good a place as any to face that wriggling finger of fate which Bolan felt crawling through his bloodstream.
The time had come to live again … to stride boldly through the valley of death. San Francisco could and would keep. Las Vegas was ready and waiting.
And let all souls beware … even the Executioner’s own.
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About the Author
Don Pendleton (1927–1995) was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. He served in the US Navy during World War II and the Korean War. His first short story was published in 1957, but it was not until 1967, at the age of forty, that he left his career as an aerospace engineer and turned to writing full time. After producing a number of science fiction and mystery novels, in 1969 Pendleton launched his first book in the Executioner saga: War Against the Mafia. The series, starring Vietnam veteran Mack Bolan, was so successful that it inspired a new American literary genre, and Pendleton became known as the father of action-adventure.
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