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December 12, 2012
Donald Pendleton was a pulp fiction, action, science fiction, and mystery writer best known for the Executioner series books, which centered on the character Mack Bolan, who waged a one-man war against the Mafia. Pendleton is generally credited with creating the action-adventure genre in the 1970s. The Little Rock (Pulaski County) native died of a heart attack in Sedona, Arizona, on October 23, 1995, at the age of sixty-seven.