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Phil Elmore

Phil Elmore

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None of you were wondering, "Hey, where did Phil Elmore go?" about a year ago when I disappeared. Well, my disappearance started longer ago than that. But I have a good reason for why I wasn't around. I was busy writing these:

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Bolan faces off against a ruthless vigilante in Upstate New York, running afoul of a Chinese terror conspiracy along the way. This one was fun because I filled it with landmarks from my home town and the surrounding area.

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Bolan, in New York City, faces organized crime and gun runners in tracking down the source of a new, deadly explosive ammunition that's turning local gang wars deadlier. I picked all my favorite NYC landmarks, subsequent to a 2005 trip there, and then shot the hell out of them in novel-land.

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Hawaii is under seige when the Chinese terrorists return and secure assets in Honolulu, as payback for the tensions over Taiwan. I did a bunch of research in order to make the location believable, and created one of my favorite villains to date -- a Hawaiian nationalist knife fighter with a penchant for .44 magnum firepower.

If you like books about people being shot in the face, these have a lot of that. I didn't mention this when these first came out because I didn't really want to pimp them (they have a built-in audience anyway), but I thought it might be a curiosity now.
 
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Bolan as in Mack Bolan? Ah too funny, I used to read those back when they were popular in the late 80s.
 
WOW, that series is a flashback to High School!

I got through many boring lectures with one hidden in my textbook!!!

:D

Congrats Phil!
 
I had totally forgotten about Mack Bolan. I think I had just about every one of them at one time, way back when. Talk about a flashback!
 
Still have a box full somewhere. Bolan's about 65-70 years old now, right?
 
If I remember correctly Bolan was a top kick in Vietnam. It takes many years to obtain that rank. If so he was probably old enough to serve during the Korean War. So maybe he was born around 1930?
 
Wow, I'll have to look for those. I read a couple of them in the 70's, Caribbean Kill and one other that I can't remember.
 
I remember the first story (I beleive it was the first). He got back from Nam and found his sister or family were getting jacked by the local mafia. So he negotiated with extreme prejudice. There was a scene where he shot some limos with a rocket launcher. First car first, last car second, clean up the middle cars with machine guns. Ahh good old Mack.
 
zenheretic said:
I remember the first story (I beleive it was the first). He got back from Nam and found his sister or family were getting jacked by the local mafia. So he negotiated with extreme prejudice. There was a scene where he shot some limos with a rocket launcher. First car first, last car second, clean up the middle cars with machine guns. Ahh good old Mack.
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Not to sound too morbid, but somewhere in that story he shot several mobsters with a .444 Marlin, right? Not a week after I read that story (or whatever MB story it was) a friend of mine showed me his personal Marlin 444. The thing looked, and felt, like a big ol' plumbing pipe with a stock attached. "Cannon" came to mind. I've wanted one ever since.

Not to shoot people with, mind you, :D but for squirrel population control.
















Okay, just kidding - but I've always liked big bores.

I couldn't remember what story I read that in until I saw this thread.

thx - cpr
 
Phil, your shameless shilling convinced me, so off I went to my favorite used bookstore, where I scored two of the three books in question. :D

Yesterday, I spent a most enjoyable Saturday afternoon reading "Killing Trade".

A whopping good read! Well done, Sharp Phil.

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Phil,

Outstanding, you ...you SECRET-KEEPER!!! :D

Always have enjoyed your writing and this is a well-deserved and earned kudo for you. It's nice to see true talent being recognized and rewarded.

Congratulations!
 
I still don't like the self promotion. :grumpy: :thumbdn: This place is not your personal advertising space.
 
I don't get any money when somebody buys a copy of an Executioner book I've written, Ken (I get paid a flat fee up front) -- and avoiding self-promotion is precisely why I didn't mention this when the books first came out.
 
Sharp Phil said:
I don't get any money when somebody buys a copy of an Executioner book I've written, Ken (I get paid a flat fee up front) -- and avoiding self-promotion is precisely why I didn't mention this when the books first came out.
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Then why do it now?
 
I liked Phoenix Force myself. I only read Mack on the rare occasion.

Does he still carry the .44 Auto Mag and the Beretta 93R?

As an aside, MB was the inspiration for Marvel's The Punisher.
 
Johnny_Z said:
I liked Phoenix Force myself. I only read Mack on the rare occasion.

Does he still carry the .44 Auto Mag and the Beretta 93R?

As an aside, MB was the inspiration for Marvel's The Punisher.
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Wasn't there an Able Team as well or am I cross story blending? (seems like there were three, Phoenix Force, Able Team, and Mack Bolan :confused: )
 
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