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I read a few when I was a kid when the A Team and Mike Hammer were television shows, First Blood was in the theatres and GI Joe was a cartoon with a massive action figure lineup.

As pulp fiction they were ok. I was too young then to catch all the embedded satire. Not sure if the satire can be found in the current Mack Bolan novels. The one man war against the Mafia storyline was fairly entertaining.

Occasionally I still read the odd novel that is written in this style. George Robert Elford's The Devil's Guard is a good read (which made me read Spencer Chapman's The Jungle is Neutral; which is excellent and not written in this style).

However, I do prefer the painted covers from the 70's and 80's Bolan paperbacks.