The third Matt Helm novel, an American agent colder, tougher and more cynical than Bond. IN this story he gets sucked into the violent world of crime and espionage trying to protect his ex-wife and fend off the neurotic urges of a gangsters daughter.

The top-ranking American Secret Agent rides again with good writing, slick plotting and stimulating characters. "All tartly flavored with wit," says Book Week. Another in the classic Matt Helm series. Rated R for violence.

An agent like Matt Helm might be a nice man to live with, for a while -- but he's not the kind a woman would want to marry. Unless, perhaps, the marriage was part of an ingenious cover. Here the man whose daily bread is violence takes himself the most unlikely bride in the world -- just to make sure that death doesn't part them.

For Matt Helm the investigation was personal. He'd worked with Annette O'Leary before and was determined to find out who'd killed her. What he found was a fiendish plot to poison America with massive pollution, the Generator was potentially more devastating than an H-Bomb.

Matt Helm Mission 14. Matt was on vacation in Mexico with nothing on his mind bigger than a fish, when some joker tried to shoot him in the back. Naturally it was no accident. When secret agents get shot at, it's never an accident. So matt had to go back to work immediately. And for a bonus--he was given his boss's beautiful daughter as a playmate in peril.