This is the most ludicrous, overpadded Bolan adventure I have ever read. It would have made a decent 144-160 page book in any men's adventure series, but it appears editorial mandate pushed it to near 350 pages.
The Big Bad Villain (hereafter BBV) is a generic mad dictator in a fictional Middle East country, He has managed to gain a huge stock of missiles by cheating the export laws of various nations to get all the parts he needed, except for some control board MacGuffins. A technogenius has the boards and is attempting to get them to the dictator so the missiles can be launched. Bolan is assigned to stop the genius with the aid of a female Israeli agent and every intelligence service in Europe.
In order to fill 350 pages, Bolan catches up with the genius and kills every evil henchman helping him, while missing the actual target...repeatedly. The story is nothing but a series of set pieces where the intelligence service of country X announces they've found where the genius is hiding, Bolan and company go to the hideout and kill everybody there while missing the main objective.
At one point, stretching coincidence until it breaks, they decide to catch him in a trap. The Israeli agent maintains the cover of being one of the world's great supermodels. It turns out that, of all the supermodels out there, she is the one the genius has a thing for. During one of the shootouts, the genius recognizes her and Bolan figures out that he recognizes her. So a publicity appearance is setup because even though she's tried to kill him several times, they figure the genius will show up to meet her. Which he does, but once again gets away while Bolan kills all the guards waiting outside for him.
The BBV decides to assign the world's-greatest-mercenary/assassin-who-isn't-Mack-Bolan to help the technogeek setting up a confrontation between the two great killing machines, which doesn't happen.
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Long story short, Bolan fails in his mission. The genius makes it to the BBV and installs the few MacGuffins he didn't lose into the missiles. But suspecting that the BBV is going to cheat him out of his payment, he rigs the boards to send the missiles straight up and back down onto their launch sites. Bolan and the supermodel agent make it to the Mideast but watch helplessly as the missiles launch.
All in all, this book is just a waste of reading time. ( )