The
1970’s men’s fiction market was rotten with revenge tales populated by veterans
of America’s unpopular war in Vietnam. These isolated, disaffected, and angry
men brought a new war of vigilante justice to the crime ridden streets of
America’s cities. The literary movement began with Don Pendleton’s
multi-million copy selling War Against the Mafia [Pinnacle, 1969]
featuring Mack Bolan, an Army sniper, home from the war to bury his family:
father, mother, and sister. Their deaths were ruled as murder-suicide, which
was true since Mack’s dad had pulled the trigger, but Bolan knew the context of
his father’s violence. After losing his job, he had borrowed money from the
mafia and their pressure for repayment drove him to murder. Bolan is a
righteous hero, never doubting his mission, losing focus (even to look at a
beautiful woman), or showing regret for his actions.
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