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

What do attempted assassination of world leaders by their closest advisers, a stolen nuclear missile and identical blonde triplets have in common? Nick Carter must stop a reign of terror that has gripped most of the civilized world. Sane men are being turned into kamikaze killers who hit like lightning and tell no tales!

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…

Seeking to completely undermine the American influence in the Middle East, a Moroccan arms dealer unleashes his band of cutthroats to attack U.S. Seeking to completely undermine the American influence in the Middle East, a Moroccan arms dealer unleashes his band of cutthroats to attack U.S. allies

The message over the CIA hot-line sent AXE into an uproar. CIA’s top man in Tibet had been killed. His dying words had identified his assassin— “Nick Carter!” AXE made their own Nick Carter’s briefing short: 1. A fake Killmaster at large in the East meant something explosive in the works, while the obvious lure to trap the super-agent was intriguing but probably of secondary importance. 2. Highest authority wanted the matter investigated and settled, fast! Within hours, N3 had jumped into Tibet to pick up the trail of his mysterious double. In India the path ran through streets thronged with those seeking the fortune offered in reward for Nick Carter’s arrest. It led to the remote Pakistani border region where Nick found the fuse which, once ignited in India, would set off a holocaust that would destroy all the nations of the East

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

If it had been only opium smuggled across the Turkish border, or even the savage murder of!the girl Mija of the notorious Cinema Bleu, it would not have involved Axe, America's super-secret intelligence agency. But the stakes were far higher- nothing less than the total security of nations at the brink of World War III. It was the climactic assignment for our ranking counter-espionage agent, the man with the frightening miniaturized weapons — Nick Carter, called by his fellow-agents Killmaster

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!

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!

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!

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

RUN from the screaming inferno of a blazing New York airport. RUN to the rescue of a lovely young innocent. RUN from the murderous darkness of a ransacked hotel room. RUN to the welcoming arms of an alluringly mysterious beauty. RUN to the torture room of the sinister Mr. Judas — a chamber of horrors deep beneath the streets of London. RUN to stop the gleaming overseas jet from becoming a huge silver bomb and giving the man with the steel hand a stranglehold on the free world. RUN SPY RUN!!!!!

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!

GREGORIUS: An eccentric billionaire with ambitious plans for a chain of luxury hotels. But his life will cease if Stocelli doesn't get his gambling concessions. He hires Nick Carter to get Stocelli off his back. STOCELLI: A mafia boss whose operatives around the world are being framed, involving him on some serious charges. He hires Nick Carter to get him off the hook with the Commission. One of them was running the biggest heroin operation the world has seen. It was Killmaster's job to find out which

Nick Carter battles a maniacal dictator and a brutal voodoo cult

THE PLACE: The sinister back alleys and exotic brothels of legendary Casablanca. THE SITUATION: A blood-chilling manhunt for a dread double agent who knew too damn much — for either side. THE VERDICT: Another masterful novel of suspense in the relentlessly exciting Nick Carter-Killmaster series

The deathmaker was a small device, no larger than a heart patient's pacemaker. But it had the power to kill millions. Knox Warnow, ex-U.S. atomic scientist, knew this. He had the device implanted in his chest. He also knew that if his heart stopped beating, the bombs that he'd planted across America would automatically explode. New York, Chicago, Washington, San Francisco, and L.A. would be wiped off the face of this world. Nick Carter didn't know, and his assignment was to assassinate Knox Warnow. By the time Nick discovered Warnow's deadly secret, it was going to be much too late

Nick Carter must obey the whims of a beautiful, sadistic enemy spy to stop the traitor who could blow the U.S. sky high! The scene was Hong Kong. The mission was to find Professor Loo, whose scientific knowledge could give the Red Chinese protection against any nuclear attack

AXE chief David Hawk has a brilliant plan to lure one of the agency's most dangerous enemies out of Russia, and into Nick Carter's hands. Nikolai Kobelev has been the diabolical foe in some of agent N3's most perilous cases and N3 has to stop him before he hatches another fiendish plot. With a dead ringer for Kobelev's beautiful daughter as bait, it seems the KGB killer is as good as caught… until the tables are suddenly turned, and Nick finds himself locked in a deadly struggle to save two gorgeous American espionage agents-and himself — from certain death

THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO KILL A MAN... Chinese assassins prefer a knife. Others use bare hands. American pros favor high-powered guns. Russian killers choose dynamite. There’s just one man who can defeat the many ways of death. His name’s Nick Carter. This time Killmaster will have to use all his predatory skills to deal with the butchers sent his way in

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

Dr Damon Zeno: microbiologist… American defector… a dedicated and dangerous enemy. That was about all Nick Carter knew about the man he was hunting — except that Zeno was set up in a secret lab, perfecting a chilling new weapon for the destruction of the United States. The weapon was the 'Omega mutation' — a microscopic bug. It multiplied quickly and it could not be destroyed. It would kill a man in a matter of days. Zeno planned to turn it loose in the United States — and Nick Carter had no choice but to destroy Zeno before 'Omega Day'. Soon Carter was in Tangier, hot on Zeno's trail — with his automatic snug in its holster… a beautiful girl named Gabrielle close at his side… and a death trap waiting for him at every turn

The following story was told to the writer by Nick Carter as being the most remarkable, and in many respects, the most mysterious case in his experience. It baffled the shrewdest detectives on the regular force, and had practically been abandoned when Nick Carter took hold of it. I tell the story in my own way and in the third person, but the facts, scenes and incidents are reproduced as nearly as possible in the great detective's own words. THE AUTHOR

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

AROUND THE WORLD... ON A TRAIL OF MURDER Saigon It was the last days of the war, and in the middle of the bloodshed Killmaster has to find a man named Walter Corbin — and a roll of microfilm. He found his man just in time to see his head shatter into a million pieces... Hong Kong The trail led from sampan city, where silence was safety, to a series of brutal, vicious murders. Nick Carter was certain of one thing — the organization behind those killings had more at stake than a roll of film... Washington Printed in USA Killmaster needed an update from Hawk. He called the States, but AXE had vanished! He was a “free agent”-free to die in a Hong Kong gutter while powerful men made plans for global revenge!

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!

DEATH IN THE DESERT! The Syrian Liberation Army, a fanatical group driven by “The Hawk,” are expanding their activities — if they succeed a tanker will explode in New York Harbor wasting a million lives! And that’ll be just the beginning! Nick Carter enlists double agent Miriam Kamel to lead him to the terrorists’ desert camp under the spectacular ruins of The Tower of Lions. Miriam’s an expert in the arts of love and war — but Nick wonders if she’s as clever at deceit... Under the chilling desert moon, amid the dying cries of “The Hawk’s” torture victims, Nick is trapped in a nerve shattering battle. His Israeli friends call him Lamedvovnik — the secret saint. But as time runs short N-3 could quickly become another kind of “saint” — a very dead martyr!