“I know what you’re saying,” Bolan quietly interrupted, “but I think maybe you’re on the wrong tack.”
“I hope so. Good Lord, I hope so.”
“It could be worse than that, though.”
“How could it be worse?”
Bolan quietly handed over to the Georgia Cowboy a wallet, a jackknife, and thirty-seven cents in coins. “It could be this bad,” he said.
The tractor lugged to a halt and coughed dead as Reynolds examined the remains of a miserable wraith who had summoned Mack Bolan to his torture/death chamber.
“Where’d you get this?” Reynolds whispered.
“It’s his, eh?”
“Yes. Where’d you get it?”
“From the back porch of hell,” Bolan told him. “Your partner is dead, and damned glad to be that way, believe it. Don’t ask me any more until you’re ready to challenge hell. I mean that, cowboy. Don’t ask.”
The cowboy did not ask. The look in Bolan’s eyes was tale enough, for the moment. He started the engine and resumed the silent journey.
Not until the lights of civilization were reflecting on the windshield did the silence break, and then it was Bolan who broke it.
“Yeah. Thanks. That’s exactly what I want. Where do we go from here?”
The guy was ready to challenge hell.
“Welcome to the club,” Bolan told him soberly.
“Let’s go to Acworth. I have a base camp on the lake.”
There were, he knew, many routes to hell.
And, yeah, Bolan knew every one of them—like the palm of his hand.
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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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