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!!!!!

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.

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.

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!

Take a Mexican political party that demands the territorial return of Texas... and New Mexico... and Arizona... and California.

Add a Chinese paper exporting operation that exports a fine engraver’s surface for the familiar five-dollar portrait of Lincoln.

Stir with a Countess who has made a fortune in cosmetics and runs a private little kingdom at her castle deep in the Mexican jungle.

Mix in the CIA and AXE, prickling each other’s sensitivities while the nation and the highest men in government are stumped to stop the ruin of the American economy...

And suddenly, in the meeting between Hawk and the CIA man, the ingredients have blended into a little pill they hand Nick Carter. His instructions are: straighten things out — or swallow your defeat in L pills!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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!

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

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!

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.

Nick Carter battles a maniacal dictator and a brutal voodoo cult.

THE DEATH STRAIN... is a lethal virus for which there is no antidote and which kills in a hideous, painful way.

THE DEATH STRAIN... becomes a paralyzing threat to the world in the hands of the maddened genius who had developed it for America’s use in germ warfare.

THE DEATH STRAIN... leads Nick Carter to an elite legion of the damned, a group whose motto is “Kill for Peace,” a group he must destroy before it is too late!

Assuming the identity of a cold-blooded 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 demoralize American troops in Vietnam as well as to control organized 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...

The British Chancellor of the Exchequer and Defense Minister are assassinated. The British Government receives a demand for GBP 12 million to stop the killings. Carter is assigned to assist in the investigation.