DEATH TRAP FOR KILLMASTER It was just another expensive call girl operation, catering to Washington's elite. Until AXE realized that too many of the high-ranking customers were beginning to die. A senator. A cabinet officer. A congressman. Suddenly dead — and all of natural causes. It was one of Killmaster's hottest assignments. It called for a false identity, and lots of field work with the willing women in the dead men's lives. But each encounter ended with an attempt on Nick's life. The "accident" on the deserted highway... the bullet whistling past his head...the sharp-honed knife in the hands of a butchering assailant. The assignment was heating up! Nick knew what he had to find. The Chicom agent behind the whole terrifying set-up. The man who trained beautiful women into exquisite sex machines; the man who blackmailed top American officials into treason after his girls finished with them; the man who killed those who refused to co-operate — like Nick Carter.

Che Guevara — killer, sadist, madman… hero, saint, saviour-depending on your viewpoint or your politics. The world believes that Che Guevara is dead. But Nick Carter, grappling with the most lethal assignment of his long career, has reason to believe that the Cuban revolutionary is still alive. Clue number one is Teresina, a sloe-eyed peasant girl who makes love with the grandeur of a pampered princess. Clue number two is Yolanda, a wealthy, ice-cold beauty who turns into a man-eating tigress in bed. One of them can lead Nick to the man they call El Garfio — "The Hook" — the man who could be Che Guevara.

How did beautiful women come to be known as ‘The Terrible Ones’?Nick Carter, top agent of AXE, sometimes known as Killmaster, had his hands full finding out.Not that he didn’t have other things on his mind. The Chinese Communists weren’t in beautiful Dominica to sun themselves — and ‘Operation Blast’ wasn’t the nickname of a drinking-contest. Tnujillo’s last diabolical joke had been to leave a hundred million dollars in potential munitions money — a fortune in gold and jewels buried somewhere on the island, tantalisingly hidden right under everybody’s nose!And as if Nick Carter didn’t have enough trouble on his hands, there was always the danger of an ecstatic death from THE TERRIBLE ONES.

A Killmaster Spy Chiller

The meeting drew to a close, and both the Soviet chairman and the US security adviser were standing to shake hands.Then one of the men in the Soviet chairman’s own party — later I learned that he was the Russian ambassador — took a step toward the Communist chairman. He was holding a grenade that he had pulled from his pocket. The man unpinned the grenade and dropped it on the plush carpet directly at the Russian leader’s feet.In the split second of frozen horror that followed not a sound could be heard in the room. I could see the pure terror on the face of the Soviet chairman as he gazed down in helpless fascination at the lethal activated grenade lying at the tips of his shoes.At that moment, with every person in the room paralyzed, the Russian ambassador — the man who had dropped the unpinned grenade — flung himself on top of the explosive. There was a muffled blast; the grenade’s deadly power was smothered by the man’s body. He was blown apart, his head torn from his torso . . . .

America's astronauts were the targets. Four had been killed so far — with their murderers conveniently found dead just a few hours later. The enemy was known. Red China. But China's mastermind in the U.S. was a mystery. There were five possibilities. Dr. Joy Sun, the beautiful NASA scientist, with a voracious sexual appetite... Alex Simian, the multi-millionaire, with the strange "friends" in China... Major Sollitz, the career officer, with luxurious tastes his meager salary couldn't satisfy... Candy Sweet, the sensuous playgirl, with a lust for bizarre kicks... Reno Tree, the crippled hood, with ambitions to take over a Mafia empire. One of them was in the pay of Red China. But which one? Nick Carter could only wait — with himself as the bait. Killmaster had made his usual bargain with death!

THE DEATH STRAIN… is a lethal virus for which there is no antidote and which kills in a hideous, painful way. THE DEATH STRAIN… becomes a paralyzing threat to the world in the hands of the maddened genius who had developed it for America's use in germ warfare. THE DEATH STRAIN… leads Nick Carter to an elite legion of the damned, a group whose motto is "Kill for Peace," a group he must destroy before it is too late! The perfect plan for total world destruction… suddenly becomes a terrifying reality. A renowned scientist threatens to unleash a lethal virus on civilization unless all warfare research is halted. The scientist and the deadly vial have disappeared. It is Nick Carters job to find them — while there is still time.

I can handle a fight . . . a knife . . . a gun. I even tangled with a lethal bulldozer in a dark alleyway the other night. But Dr Zeno’s weapon was something else. Just thinking about it made my blood turn to ice.That’s why I was in Tangier. If I didn’t find him, he would get me - one way or another. I would be destroyed with my fellow Americans when he let his ‘omega mutation’ loose on the U.S. —Maybe Zeno had a price - something to keep him from selling out to the enemy - something to hold back those deadly little bugs. That’s what I thought at first - until I found myself in his grip. Then I knew there was only one payment he wanted from me - the last I’d ever make . . . .

MR JUDAS — master spy for hire by anyone, this time by Red China; a man of incredible cruelty and savagery, torturing people at whim, killing them for sport. NICK CARTER — America's top operative, the dreaded agent N3; tougher, faster, deadlier than any man, except perhaps Mr. Judas, his oldest enemy. The prize they fought for was the free world and the fate of millions of lives. Their arena of violence — Indonesia, torn apart by savage rebellions and war. Judas was depending on his usual ugly crew: Nife, the man child who killed on command… Geitsch, who cared only for the huge bounty the job would bring… Muller, the ex-Nazi, whose preference ran to young boys. Nick Carter had Tala, the exotic Indonesian assigned to help N3. Tala — too beautiful to resist and too dangerous to trust!

THE FINE ART OF GENERAL SMUGGLING. The situation couldn't have been worse. The Communists had the border sealed up so tight, not even a fly could slip through. On the Hong Kong side, the vicious Tiger Tong waited, ready to kill anyone attempting the General's rescue. The General — badly wounded, unable to walk — was holed up in a temple barely a mile from the camp with a thousand Chinese soldiers itching to move in. Only a fool would have tried to cross that border to get to the General. A fool — or AXE agent N3, who — in spite of the prodding of the delectable Fan Su — knew he would have his work cut out for him to get in… and out again… alive!

SILVER SHAKE SOCIETY Cambodian terrorists — fanatic, lethal and primed to STRIKE PATROL American Ranger-Raiders — specially trained, totally armed and primed to kill… NICK CARTER AXE's top agent — officially assigned to penetrate the Cambodian jungles, accidentally aligned with a sensuous native guide, and, by the very nature of his Killmaster rating primed to kill… They're all in a cold-blooded international death game that begins in a small corner of Cambodia — and could end in a global war.

Possessing a unique method of killing, the master criminal has a way to eliminate the entire British government. He won’t do it if the price is right.

Three brutal killings. The first murder was a professional job, efficiently carried out by high-price executioners. The second was a torture death, the speciality of men who knew how to prolong agony to extract information. The third was unplanned, the knife mercifully swift to its victim. And each killing ended the life of a top spy. Two strange double agents. The man sold out for money and didn't care who knew about it. The girl was forced into betrayal; she had to choose between treason and satisfying the Red agent's insatiable lust…

In the high desert not far from Las Vegas is the most secret and critical military testing site in the country. And when its chief scientist, Dr. Richard Burlison, is found dead it means that the enemy is on to Project Eighth Card! With the help of Burlison's very cooperative widow, Nick Carter is betting blind — and the stakes are world peace!

When angry natives attack a secret U.S. satellite station on a remote Pacific island, Nick Carter goes undercover to find out why. The island's French governor can't be bled for information, but his gorgeous young wife is infinitely more helpful… She leads Carter to a nearby island-and a tribe of cannibals thirsty for American blood. Someone is inciting them to murder-and to annihilation of the satellite station. It's up to N3 to put a stop to the bloody uprisings, but first he'll have to escape a perilous trap-and do battle with an unexpected and deadly foe.