FOUR SAVAGE MEN. LEONARD FOXX — American millionaire, kidnapped in a bloody shootout. JACKSON ROBEY — AXE's man in Tel Aviv, found dead in an alley, knifed in the back. AL SHAITAN — leader of a ruthless terror gang, missing along with a billion dollars in untraceable cash. NICK CARTER — Killmaster, on a lethal mission to rescue the world's ten most important men. It was to be Nick Carter's most brutal assignment — and it could only end with Killmaster victorious… or dead!

JUST A ROUTINE CASE OF MURDER. A clumsy hatchet job by an enraged husband on his slatternly, nagging wife. Followed by the desperate flight of the culprit with the FBI in methodical, well organized pursuit. Until... a check revealed that the murderer worked for AXE, with easy access to explosively dangerous military information. Until... investigation showed that for thirty years the guilty man had been an incredibly clever enemy agent. Until... AXE discovered that the Russians and the Chinese were both determined to grab the man in possession of America's atomic secrets, and would stop at nothing to get him and eliminate each other. Clearly, it was a job for Nick Carter. His orders: Find the missing man. Kill him. Fast. Before the Reds close in. The hunt led Killmaster through the dark underbelly of Asia — from the exotic house of pleasure that served as an espionage hideout, to the guerrilla band's mountain stronghold with its grisly, skeleton-filled torture chamber. It was a terrifying assignment. America's very existence depended on Nick Carter's success.

PEKING He had never looked forward to killing but it was different now. When a man isn't even human — when he has a frozen face and steel claws for hands — when he has planned a blood-drenched path of destruction — when his name is Martin Bormann — then Nick Carter's emotions about killing take on a terrible, new dimension. Somewhere in Peking, Martin Bormann is working on a terrifying mind-altering drug, a drug that could snuff out lives more quickly and more horribly than any atom bomb. Nick Carter has to get Martin Bormann — and the lethal hunt takes Killmaster from a bizarre Red Chinese bordello to a laboratory manned by robots, to the opulent headquarters of a macabre neo-Nazi movement! THE TULIP AFFAIR In this second Killmaster espionage thriller, Nick Carter is ordered to destroy a former AXE agent now working as a spy for Peking. Nick's only ally is a Chinese beauty too dangerous to be left alive!

Rats! Hundreds of them, leaping at his throat, his face, all over his body.Nick Carter tore at his attackers, shaking his body to free himself. He raised his head and came face to face with two more of the rodents, big as alley cats, squatting on a box. He slashed at them with his stiletto, and both fell. Then something furry landed on his neck. Nick whirled, aiming his weapon backwards with deadly accuracy.The rickety sampan reeked from the stench of the rats. They must have been locked in for days, perhaps even weeks, without a morsel of food. Their ferocity attested to that.And he was locked in this damned hellhole for the rest of the night . . .

The spy who mixed love and duty. The woman teased him, and so skillfully that he almost lost control before realizing that he could plot her every provocative movement in advance! Several years earlier, in an Oriental port, he had posed as a naval officer and discovered The Heaven of a Thousand and One Delights. Its inhabitants were exquisite members of the oldest profession… especially trained to use their wiles on foreign officials to compromise them into working for the Red Chinese cause. This woman was no love-possessed secretary: She was a spy. Well, two could play at that game. For the man was also a spy. In fact, he was Nick Carter, the agent known as «Killmaster» in America's super-secret intelligence organization AXE. And the Yoga-trim body that had mastered every conceivable science of killing could match this harem-trained beauty in her own arts as well. Nick Carter decided that in this particular assignment, love and duty were going to be mixed…

Assuming the identity of a coldblooded Cosa Nostra killer, Nick Carter finds himself on his way to Palermo to infiltrate the Mafia. Using false papers, real bullets, and the aid of an AXE-trained blonde named Tanya, his mission is to stop the flow of heroin to Saigon — a Chicom plot to demoralise American troops in Vietnam as well as to control organised crime in the U.S. But playing the part of a Mafia Don has big drawbacks, like being found out. And when that happens to Nick, he is marked for inescapable death by the macabre Mafia code of vengeance.

WHEN SPY MEETS SPY. An unforgettable game of counterintelligence pitting America's super-secret AXE organization against the Chinese assassination bureau, BITTER ALMONDS… and Killmaster himself against a female double-agent whose technique was irresistible.

A KILLER AT THE TOP OF HIS BLOODY PROFESSION… A man unknown to any professional Intelligence Service in the world. The mastermind behind a billion-dollar private spy network called Topcon, Inc. A sadist whose brutal power reached halfway across the world… IN PARIS The Red defector scheduled to fill Nick Carter in about Topcon's deadly game was knifed before he could utter a word. IN LAUSANNE The beautiful young German agent used every trick of her well-trained mind and body to destroy Nick's chances of finding Topcon. IN MILAN The Chinese operative almost stopped Nick permanently, with a killing karate chop. The Chicom agent was also after the man who ran Topcon. IN TRIESTE The mistress of a Nazi war criminal forced Nick into an explosive game of hide-and-seek. And while she sidetracked Nick, Topcon's elusive No. 1 man escaped once more. IN BELGRADE A macabre masquerade turned into a nightmare as Nick Carter finally discovered the true identity of Topcon's master!

MORTAR ATTACK ON WHITE HOUSE! PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT ASSASSINATED! HOUSE SPEAKER KIDNAPPED! Four-inch headlines screamed from the front pages. There was only one way to save American democracy-find the Speaker of the House before the insane terrorists carried out their ultimate threat… The trail of terror led to New York. Somewhere in Manhattan lurked "The Lion" — Al Asad — the name of the group of fanatics who thought they had a divine mission: terror, assassination, and international blackmail. It was a job for one man — alone. But even when Killmaster found them, any wrong move would mean instant death for the next President of the United States!

Nick Carter didn't believe in an abominable snowman — that is, until high in the heart of the Himalayas, in the face of monstrous evidence, he was forced to… Nick Carter didn't believe there was a woman who could shake his cool — that is, until he met the beautiful Khaleen and she made him want to… Nick Carter didn't believe it was possible for one man to stop the Chinese from taking over a country — that is, until he got the assignment in Nepal and realized he had to! Killmaster's logic is no match for ancient superstition in this electrifying espionage adventure that plunges AXE's top operative into brutal Red Chinese intrigue deep in the Himalayas!

BLOODY VENGEANCE IN CAIRO'S.UNDERWORLD. In a small, stinking African jail Nick Carter successfully carried out the first part of the assignment — the murder of a Russian agent. Now a second AXE man could accomplish Phase II — get the microfilm, the secret plans for Novigrom, Russia's fastest fighter plane, into the free world. But AXE's man was butchered in Cairo, brutally and apparently inexplicably. Now Nick has to complete the assignment-recover the microfilm and find the sadistic killer. To help him, AXE assigned Fayeh, a golden-skinned Egyptian Interpol agent… to feed Nick information, they sent Thinman, a depraved addict who walked the narrow line between the law and the underworld for his daily fix… to test Nick, they pitted him against the New Brotherhood, the Arab version of the Mafia. The New Brotherhood was the most lethal syndicate Nick had ever encountered. He only hoped he would live to tell about it…

They're a mercenary elite who'll take on any job-the more murderously spectacular the better — if the price is right. But their ultimate purpose isn't wealth; it's power in its most raw and devastating form. They call themselves the Law of the Lion. Their base is the treacherous jungle of Central America. And they hold no loyalty to any cause but their own. They're the most awesome terror army the world has ever faced — and challenging them on their own turf is like diving into a pool of blood in shark-filled waters. Only Nick Carter would try it. Only Nick Carter could win.