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Don Pendleton


California Hit

The Executioner - 11


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"Don Pendleton. California Hit": Pinnacle Books; 1972

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The sunny Golden Gate city finds out what the Executioner is all about
when he explodes into their midst, hot on the trail of the inner enemy and
"Mr. King," the behind-the-scenes boss of all that moves and breathes in the
western states.
Bolans assault blazes a wide swath, zeroing in on the kingpins home
base. A deadly Chinese Communist cell, some misled ecology freaks and a
group of militant leftists all find themselves in danger of being burned by
the swiftly racing torch of the Executioner. No one is going to stop him
this time. No way.

Don Pendleton
California Hit

Prologue

Mack Bolan had long entertained a bone feeling about San Francisco. His
ground ear had been pulling him here ever since the nightmare in New York,
the steady vibrations from that underculture of the national crime network
telegraphing the insistent message that here was where the blood was at.
That certain feeling was intensified as the warwagon sped across the
doubledecked engineering marvel known as the San Francisco-Oakland Bay
Bridge and the fabulous skyline of that great old city came into view.
Down there was a population-density surpassed only in Manhattan, and a
cosmopolitan atmosphere second to nowhere. It was more than a city; San
Francisco was a way of life and a state of mind, an independence of the
human spirit exuberantly expressed and often wildly exaggerated. There was
the largest Chinatown outside the Orient, the most cohesive Italian
community on the continent, and a general mixture of peoples and cultures
more productive than any similar venture on the planet Earth.
It had started as the Spanish Presidio and Mission Dolores, in about
the same year that the English colonies on the other American coast were
proclaiming their independence. A scant fifteen years before the historic
gold rush which put California on the continental map, the pueblo of Yerba
Buena was established there, under the flag of Mexico, and in 1847 it was
renamed San Francisco - a California Republic community of some eight
hundred souls.
The discovery of gold at Sutler's Mill in 1848 produced a sprawling