The Executioner (aka Mack Bolan) is a monthly men's action-adventure paperback series of books.
It has spanned several spin-offs and imitators over its four decades in print and currently has 423 installments (as of February 2014) that have sold more than 200 million copies.
[1] Created and initially written by American author Don Pendleton in 1969, who wrote 37 of the original 38 Bolan books (#16 was written by one "Jim Petersen" during a legal dispute between Pendleton and Pinnacle)[2] before he licensed the rights to Gold Eagle in 1980.
Since 1981, the series has been written collectively by a series of ghostwriters.
Authors categorized into the decade in which they published their debut work.