Serial Vigilantes of Paperback Fiction

<p> Rough justice has often been served in the pages of serial novels, notably beginning with Don Pendleton's <I>The Executioner</I> 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.</p><p> Serial vigilantes repeatedly take the law into their own hands, establishing and imposing their own moral stand