Mack Bolan - Personal Life

Personal Life

Bolan has been in love only twice. His first lover was Valentina "Val" Querente, whom he met when he first went up against the Mob. He would break off this relationship after she and Johnny Bolan had been kidnapped. His second love was federal agent April Rose, whom he met during the first of his final campaigns against the Mafia. He holds current lover, Barbara Price, at arm's length out of fear she, like Val and April, will be threatened, harmed, or killed.

No one has ever claimed Bolan does not like women. In fact, he has sex with a different one in most of the Pendleton novels. He prefers the gutsy type who are not apt to run away when shot at, which explains his deep affection for Querente, federal agent Toby Ranger, and April herself. In one novel, a woman with whom he was working claimed he liked his women "barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen." Bolan replied, "No, I like them alive."

In his spare time, he likes extreme sports such as canoeing several rivers in flood stage. He typically likes to spend his spare time either with Barbara Price or pursuing an extreme sport.

He is also very literate, frequently reading Miguel de Cervantes' masterwork Don Quixote.