title: Dead Man Running (Mack Bolan, The Executioner #64)
author:  Don Pendleton 
description: Mack Bolan returns from Russia to find the CIA has lifted its liquidation mandate. He is granted a stay of execution - for twelve hours. But no one can stay The Executioner's hand as he sets out on his mission of revenge in Washington. His target: a KGB mole responsible for the attack on Bolan's base and the death of his greatest love, April Rose. - Not only has the Soviet spy penetrated the inner circle of the U.S. President, but Bolan finds Moscow's Department of Terror in bed with his oldest enemy - the American Mafia. The Stony warrior rains a hell storm of death on the midnight streets of D.C., ending in a stunning climax at the Oval Office. The Executioner is in the city of lies. And he has come to spill blood - drop by treacherous drop.
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  Don Pendleton - EX267 - Invisible Invader
  
    
  
  Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
  Imagination encircles the world. - Albert Einstein
  
    
  
  A brilliant mind is a remarkable asset only if it belongs to a good man. It
  becomes dangerous when the man loses track of what's important in life. When
  greed takes hold, a brilliant mind is wasted. - Mack Bolan
  
    
  
  THE MACK BOLAN LEGEND
  
    
  
  Nothing less Hum a war could have fashioned the destiny of the man called Mack
  Bolan. Bolan earned the Executioner title in the jungle hell of Vietnam.
  
    
  
  But this soldier also wore another name-Sergeant Mercy. He was so tagged
  because of the compassion he showed to wounded comrades-in-arms and Vietnamese
  civilians.
  
    
  
  Mack Bolan's second tour of duty ended prematurely when he was given emergency
  leave to return home and bury his family, victims of the Mob. Then he declared
  a one-man war against the Mafia.
  
    
  
  He confronted the Families head-on 