From a lonely beach in the Yucatán 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!

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…

The target: Stephan Conway, an American, founder of Protec International, the government’s chief supplier of missile guidance systems. At first, Conway was the victim of blackmail. But then... he was marked for murder. Nick Carter was at hand in Berlin when Conway’s wife was killed by a cyanide-tipped bullet.

It looked like a failed assassination attempt. But Carter knew the plot was more complicated than it appeared. Experience had taught him one important thing: a professional never misses...