the current favorites, the Beretta 93R and .44 Magnum Desert Eagle, though Bolan has demonstrated facility with any pistol or rifle he comes across, and often carries a knife. Mack Bolan books Mack Bolan books are currently divided into three series: Executioner ("Mack Bolan"), Super Bolan, and Stony Man. Both the Executioner and Super Bolan series detail Bolan's exploits. Executioner is the original series that was started by Don Pendelton in 1969; 453 books were published in this series between 1969 and 2017 (these novels being typically 180 pages long). (Several later e-books may also exist from 2017-2020.) The "Super Bolan" series was started in 1983 by World Wide Library (a division of Harlequin Books) and were released about every other month; 178 books were published in this series between 1983 and 2015 (these novels being typically 310 pages long). The Stony Man series details the exploits of the two action teams at Stony Man: Able Team and Phoenix Force. In 1991, Able Team and Phoenix Force were discontinued, and Gold Eagle merged them into one series, Stony Man. There were 51 "Able Team" novels plus 2 "Super Able Team" special editions, while "Phoenix Force" consisted of 51 novels plus 4 "Super Phoenix Force" specials. (These were followed by 140 Stony Man novels, which continued until 2015. In France, a new spin-off series, Kira B., featuring Mack Bolan's "daughter" Kira, was introduced by the publisher Vauvenargues, in 2012. Written under the pen name Steven Belly, the series follows the adventures of Kira, a young woman who appeared in L'Exécuteur nº300: Le réseau Phénix, where she manipulated Mack Bolan to come out of retirement to fight against cyber-criminals. Since then, she has helped her "father" in his fight against crime and now is the heroine of her own, eponymous series, which includes the following titles: Kira 1: Ondes de Choc dans l'Oregon (2012, Shockwaves in Oregon) Kira 2: L'Aigle de Brandebourg (2013, Brandeburger Eagle) Kira 3: Neige de sang sur Oslo (2013) Kira 4: Crisis (2013) Kira 5: La Quadrature sibérienne (2013) A publishing deal was made for e-book versions of Don Pendleton's original 37-volume series with Open Road Media. Pendleton's only Mack Bolan Short Story, "Willing To Kill", written in 1978, is now in print. Linda Pendleton also issued a hardcover history of the Executioner, celebrating the character's 50th Anniversary in 2019, called "The Executioner: Don Pendleton Creates Mack Bolan".