Serial Vigilantes of Paperback Fiction: An Encyclopedia from Able Team to Z-Comm

by Brad Mengel

Rough justice has often been served in the pages of serial novels, notably beginning with Don Pendleton's The Executioner in 1969. This is the first overview of the serial vigilante genre, which featured such hard-boiled protagonists as Nick Carter, Mark Stone, Jake Brand and Able Team among the 130 series that followed Pendleton's novel. Serial vigilantes repeatedly take the law into their own hands, establishing and imposing their own moral standards,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786441658
• ISBN13: 9780786441655
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher