Quotes from Don Pendleton

Mack Bolan was simply a man who could command himself.

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

It was not bleeding quite so badly now, he decided—or maybe he was just running out of blood.

Spring-tension hips were thrust high and forward and moving rhythmically for an even more disturbing effect.

Each man's death was his own. He may not choose the time or place, he may not even realize that he was dying, but no two departures from this life were ever perfectly identical.

Violence is the way of the world because competition is the way of life-perpetuation. Without violence there can be no competition, and without competition there can be no life. Something dies for every instant that something else lives.

Mack Bolan was not born to kill, as many of his comrades and superiors secretly believed. He was not a mechanically functioning killer-robot, as his sniper-team partners openly proclaimed. He was not even a cold-blooded and ruthless exterminator, as one leftist news correspondent tagged him. Mack was simply a man who could command himself.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that your soul is an island, Ash. It's as much a part of the continent as your body is. It is immune to being bought and sold because the original owner will not release the title.