Chicago Wipe-Out — Don Pendleton

WHO IS THIS MAN?

Meet Mack Bolan. combat hero of Korea and Viet Nam and now a one-man army fighting America's most insidious enemy -- the Mafia.

In Viet Nam the military ledgers credit Bolan with more than 90 VC "Kills." He was an extraordinary soldier -- and a man who worked at his lob.

Then he returned home one summer to find his father, mother and sister dead. He traced the crime to a Mafia loan-shark's dealing with his father. That was the beginning of a new direction in Mack Bolan's war career.

"It looks like I have been fighting the wrong enemy: he said. "Why defend a front line 8,000 miles away when the real enemy is chewing up everything you love back home?"

Introducing: the Mafia, and THE EXECUTIONER