Shattered Trust (2001)

Shattered Trust, number 268 in the Executioner series published under Don Pendleton's name and the first book of its Conspiracy Trilogy, sends Mack Bolan against a Russian crime family operating in America while his brother Johnny protects a woman the Russians are hunting. The same maker's watch appears on two of the Russians. (Open Library)

Watches

Rolex (unidentified model): Showing a photograph around Arizona motels before dawn, the gunman Ilya Zarudniy is asked by a night manager whether he knows what time it is. He ignores the wall clock behind the old man, checks his Rolex and answers to the minute; a page later he shoots him, spattering the clock face. The maker is named; the model is not.

Source text: There was a large clock on the wall behind him, but Zarudniy checked his Rolex watch, making sure. "Eleven minutes past the hour of four o'clock," he said. (Don Pendleton (house name), Shattered Trust, scan cataloged as Worldwide, 2001, p. 12; his first name is on p. 11; Internet Archive scan OCR)

Rolex (unidentified model): With Bolan's assault closing on his house, the crime boss Tolya Valerik has called his helicopter pilot and checks his Rolex to find that a minute has already gone. The maker is named; the model is not.

Source text: Valerik checked his Rolex watch. A minute had already passed since he had spoken to his helicopter pilot. They were that much closer to salvation, to escape. (Don Pendleton (house name), Shattered Trust, scan cataloged as Worldwide, 2001, p. 210; his first name is on p. 85; Internet Archive scan OCR)