Don Pendleton
Don Pendleton (1927-1995) was an American author of action-adventure, thriller and detective fiction novels as well as non-fiction books. Most of the novels published under the name are using “Don Pendleton” as a house name, featuring characters created by Pendleton – most notably, Mack Bolan: The Executioner and Stony Man . On his own, he wrote the Ashton Ford , Joe Copp and Stewart Mann series. Pendleton served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and the Korean War. He would later go on to work as an air traffic control specialist and then as an engineering administrator at NASA.
