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 KILLMASTERIt 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!

PEKINGHe 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 AFFAIRIn 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 assignmentLOST…America's top agent, on a bizarre assassination assignmentFOUND…Fragments of an incredible espionage plot; targets — the U.S. and Red ChinaREWARD…The world in flames, or peace — depending on who wonSomewhere 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.