A Killmaster Spy Chiller

Nick Carter watched the ship — a U.S. Navy cruiser. It was aflame; over a thousand men were dying on it. One of America's most trusted allies had caused the carnage. A terrible accident, the U.S. said and everyone forgot about it. But then came the next «accident» and the next, and the pile of corpses grew higher. It was Nick Carter's job to find out why. But between Nick and the answer lay a scientifically perfect espionage plot, fueled by crazy revenge, clouded by friend killing friend. There was only one way to get at the truth. Nick had to set himself up for another "accident," a purely personal one…

Under any other circumstances it would have been cause for celebration when Nick Carter’s three friends showed up in the States—• the cross-eyed Egyptian criminologist Hakim Sadek, who had so often used his devious talents and hideous appearance to such devastating effect.• the jolly peasant woman Valentina Sichikova, the Russian agent who was built like a tank but had a heart as big and warm as the sun• and the beautiful Julia Baron with whom Nick Carter is as much in love as his dangerous profession permits . . .—but their reunion is not to celebrate mutual admiration, friendship or love—it is a “nightmare party’, an assignment so perilous that the foundations of the free world will crumble into radioactive dust if they do not succeed. Already the whole of the United States has been gripped with panic under the terrifying rumours of drugs added to drinking water, poisons in the air—an invasion from outer space!

A lever. A coma. Then sudden death. The latest in high tech genocide from a renegade Russian scientist bent on "purifying the world". Forced into teaming up with the KGB, N3 trails the world-class murderer to his impenetrable fortress in the frozen Antarctic waste. But this time, even the honed and deadly skills of the AXE Killmaster may not enough to stop a madman who has the power to kill millions overnight.

From a lonely beach in the Yucatan to a tiny nation high in the Pyrenees, Nick Carter stalks the trail of international terrorists. Eight deadly nuclear missiles have been hijacked, and the Killmaster's job is to get the missiles back and distribute AXE justice to the thieves. For agent N3, it's a piece-of-cake assignment with sweet rewards… until a mysterious Basque millionaires spins a web of danger and death that threatens all Europe with nuclear destruction!

Seven scientists from different lines of study have over the past year been afflicted with a strange disease that has corrupted their minds.

America's top agent, on a bizarre assassination assignment LOST... America's top agent, on a bizarre assassination assignment FOUND... Fragments of an incredible espionage plot; targets — the U.S. and Red China REWARD... The world in flames, or peace — depending on who won Somewhere in Tokyo's espionage jungle, a shocking double cross warned that the plot was under way. America's supersecret espionage network, AXE, moved frantically to assign its top operative — Nick Carter — to Japan. But agent N3 had disappeared; drugged and kidnapped through the oldest ploy of all — a beautiful woman with a body built for betrayal. And for the first time in his life, Nick Carter found himself helpless, weaponless, alone — and trapped into helping the enemy!

It began with a black man, a white woman and enough gold to ransom the world. The man was consumed with race hate, driven to senseless slaughter by a single-minded plan for retribution. The woman was possessed by the need for every variety of sensual delight. The gold was mined secretly in Rhodesia, owned by a die-hard Nazi who had long ago sacrifice a soul and sanity to insatiable dreams of glory. This was the terrifying trio that awaited Nick Carter in Rhodesia — on a brutal seek-and-destroy mission against an organization of assassins that had infiltrated every country of Africa.

Lord Edmond Burns of Britain's labor party — dead over the English coast in an airliner explosion. Replaced by a Red Chinese sympathizer. Ahmed Tal Barin of India's pacifist party — dead over the Pacific Ocean in an airliner explosion. Replaced by a Red Chinese sympathizer. Augusto La Dilda of Peru's moderate party — dead over North Africa in an airliner explosion. Replaced by a Red Chinese sympathizer. ...and in the Montego Room of the Cayman Hotel, Jamaica, where the delectable Countess de Fresnaye sipped champagne with her lover (a young man vaguely resembling both Cary Grant and Gregory Peck) a waiter delivered a note. It was unsigned... and addressed to Nick Carter... A novel behind the glamour-mask of international intelligence... pitting young Nick Carter against the world's most vicious spy.

Nick Carter knows that the KGB has called a meeting of all the world's terrorists. It's a party he wants to crash: the only problem is, he doesn't know where or when. But espionage has its own deadly etiquette, and with the help of a beautiful double agent and a blackmarket death-merchant, N3 proves that there are ways to get invited to even the most exclusive (and most dangerous) affairs…

"WE WANT TO HEAR THE MUSIC BEFORE HIS THROAT IS SLIT." Those were Nick Carter's orders. Translated, they meant that Nick had to find Rico Corelli before the Syndicate killers did. Corelli had been controlling the international drug chain from Corsica for years. But when the Mob found that their profits were slipping and Corelli's were mounting, the heat was on and Corelli was on the run. If Killmaster got to him first, Corelli could be made to talk and the drug chain would drop in AXE's lap. If the Mafia did, there'd be one more bloody name on the Mob's death list. Armed only with a beautiful female narc and a flimsy cover, AXE's chief agent begins the hunt. But the Mafia's enforcers are with him all the way. And the first corpse is a ringer for the man Nick Carter is supposed to impersonate… In a tense, bloody race against time, Killmaster stalks a man he's never seen, a ruthless unphotographed killer running for his life from the men who know him best!

ISLANDS OF DEATH! Nicarxa and Apalca — idyllic island republics in the Caribbean. Until Don Carlos Italla, monk turned warlord and guerilla leader, chooses one of them for a hideout. In a bizarre struggle for power and influence in the Americas, Nick Carter, AXE agent N3, has to ferret out the guerillas — and fend off the Cuban marine forces. All without the official recognition of the U.S. government! Deep in the tropical mountains, Alto Arete stands, an impregnable fortress. Nick Carter's job is to conquer it and Don Carlos's crazed army of «monks» before peace in the Western Hemisphere becomes no more than a fond memory!

He was a highly paid professional, killing anyone, anywhere, for a price. A murderer who relished his work, lovingly watching each victim writhe in blood. The Intelligence establishment named him The Vulture — "the scarlet vulture," his mechanized talons dripping with human blood. Destroying The Vulture was Nick Carter's next assignment. But before Carter could get to his lethal quarry, he had to hunt down another man. A bizarre double of The Vulture, forced into becoming the assassin's perfect weapon — and his next agonized victim!

The Petrograd submarine, Russia's newest and deadliest war-toy, is NATO's worst nightmare. So, when a Russian naval officer offers the sub's plans and maintenance manual for sale, the CIA station chief in Tokyo jumps at the chance. Both get more than they bargained for. Hours later Russian-seller and CIA-buyer are dead-gunned down by the KGB. But the microchip with the plans has vanished. With the plans up for grabs Tokyo becomes a chess board of intrigue in a deadly game of Far Eastern espionage. But the Killmaster is playing for higher stakes. As Soviet and Western agents clash, N3 goes after the sub itself…

DESERT DEATH TRAP. The American Ambassador assassinated. President Mendanike dead in an "accidental" plane crash. His beautiful widow held prisoner. A ruthless, devious man named Abu Osman plotting to overthrow the new government. And Colonel Mohammed Doosa, head of the Russian-style secret police, with his own murderous plans… AXE might have let the small North African republic boil in its own bloodbath if it hadn't been for "Cockeye" — the stolen missile, the deadliest weapon in NATO's nuclear arsenal. Killmaster's assignment: walk into this desert hell, alone, find the missile — and destroy it. He didn't have much time. He had exactly SIX BLOODY SUMMER DAYS!