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The Executioners is a psychological thriller-suspense novel written by John D. MacDonald, published in 1957. [1] The plot concerns a lawyer being stalked and tormented by a criminal he helped put in prison. It was filmed twice under the title Cape Fear, once in 1962 and again in 1991. The first film adaptation is more faithful to the novel ...
The Executioner was adapted into a five-part comic book series by IDW, written by Doug Wojtowicz and illustrated by S. I. Gallant. It was reissued as the graphic novel Don Pendleton's The Executioner: The Devil's Tool in November 2008. The reissued version contained an introduction by Linda Pendleton, "Don Pendleton's Creation of Mack Bolan ...
The Executioner is a monthly action-adventure paperback book series created by American author Don Pendleton.Every other month the series was complemented by the release of a "Super Bolan", titles that were twice the length of a standard Executioner novel.
John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916 – December 28, 1986) was an American writer of novels and short stories. He is known for his thrillers. A prolific author of crime and suspense novels, many set in his adopted home of Florida, he was one of the most successful American novelists of his time, MacDonald sold an estimated 70 million books. [1]
Madrid-based producer César Martínez of Dexiderius Producciones is teaming with writers Rodrigo Martín Antoranz and Pedro García Ríos on the miniseries “Verdugos” (“The Executioners”).
Mack Bolan, alias The Executioner, is a fictional character who has been serialized in 631 novels with sales of more than 200 million books. [1] Created by Don Pendleton, Bolan made his first appearance on the printed page in The Executioner #1: War Against the Mafia (1969). Pendleton wrote 37 other novels featuring Bolan, often referred to as ...
Max Cady is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of the John D. MacDonald novel The Executioners.He was portrayed by Robert Mitchum in J. Lee Thompson's Cape Fear and Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese's remake, and is set to be portrayed by Javier Bardem in an upcoming television remake that Scorsese will produce alongside Steven Spielberg.
The executioner was usually presented with a warrant authorising or ordering him to execute the sentence. The warrant protects the executioner from the charge of murder. Common terms for executioners derived from forms of capital punishment—though they often also performed other physical punishments—include hangman and headsman .