The story is set in September 1965. Carter is assigned to Mission Sappho – to kidnap British scientist Alicia Todd – holidaying on the Costa Brava with her Russian spy lover – or kill her if she resists. Todd has developed a secret formula known as the Paradise Pill which has the ability to greatly enhance a soldier’s morale and stamina.

The story is set in November 1965. A 50 megaton nuclear missile is launched from Scotland and detonates over the North Pole. A terrorist named Pendragon delivers an ultimatum to heads of state in London, Paris, Rome and Bonn. Russia and USA are excluded. The British secret service contacts AXE for assistance.

Nick Carter is sent to the Republic of Haiti to assist a group of rebels from neighboring Dominican Republic called The Terrible Ones. Led by Paula Martelo, The Terrible Ones are the widows of men executed for plotting to overthrow former Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo. Carter also has to investigate the nature of Operation Blast and stop it.

The novel is set in December 1965. Carter is vacationing in a borrowed yacht in Hong Kong disguised as playboy, Clark Harrington. He is contacted by friend and CIA agent, Bob Ludwell. Ludwell confides in Carter that he is leaving Hong Kong that night to cross into China on an undisclosed mission and that he does not expect to survive. Ludwell has clearly lost his nerve and hands Carter an envelope with instructions to give it to his wife and children if he does not return in a week.

Officers of the US Special Forces discover a secret camp in North Vietnam near Hanoi. The camp is guarded by Chinese soldiers and houses a group of German scientists, led by Ulric Krutch, who are working on a top secret rocket programme. A new rocket has been perfected that can deliver a payload into earth orbit. The team of scientists is waiting for Dr Erich Burgdorf to arrive from Buenos Aires with plans for a triggering device that will release a secondary component carrying a secret payload after the rocket has reached orbit. When it is discovered that none of the scientists has ever met Burgdorf, secret agent Nick Carter is sent to impersonate Burgdorf, infiltrate the camp and neutralize the rocket programme.

A CIA agent who monitors Cuban refugees in Florida has been killed in a hit and run accident. The agent had been following up the disappearance of an elderly Cuban refugee who had recently resettled in Florida and the murder of his family. The CIA investigations revealed that the elderly refugee is really Mr. Judas – an international terrorist and master spy. Carter is assigned to impersonate Ralph Benson – a bumbling CIA agent whose poor judgment led to the death of the CIA agent – in an attempt to flush out the assassins.

Nick Carter is in Paris when he is attacked by four Asian assailants. Meanwhile, a Dutch Boeing 707 from Paris to New York is hijacked by Asian terrorists. One of the passengers, Chinese scientist Dr Lin Chang-su, is kidnapped and forced to return to China; the other 150 passengers are killed and the plane destroyed to make it look like a mid-air explosion.

On Saturday, 6 November 1965, a series of seemingly unconnected acts of violence occur involving college students across America. Dr Martin Winters, Vice Chancellor at the University of California, Berkeley, is murdered before he can present certain evidence to the FBI concerning the student unrest. AXE suspects the murder of Dr Winters and the student unrest are connected. It also suspects that the violent outbursts are triggered by a Chinese communist plot involving mass drug-induced mind control.

'The Weapon of Night' brings three foreign agents to America to help Nick Carter battle a diabolical plot by his arch-enemy Mr Judas. The blackout of November 1965 sets the stage, an eight-state power outage, that led The United States to become the easiest target to render it totally helpless. Now was the time to revisit the rolling blackouts, the strange lights in the sky, and the dreaded stinging smog.

The US Treasury is concerned about the enormous extent of counterfeit $5 bills in circulation. A minor operative in the counterfeiting group based in Mexico steals $500,000 worth of counterfeit money and flies to a pre-arranged meeting with gang members on the US side of the border with Mexico. He is killed as his plane crashes before he makes contact and the wreckage is discovered by US police.

The US has lost an H-bomb over the Adriatic. This bomb was a lure for a game of global blackmail with the lives of thousands as well as the United States prestige. Everything is riding on Nick's mission to Venice.

In the black depths of Budapest, Killmaster infiltrates a pornographic propaganda mill pledged to pervert the Western world Carter is summoned to Hawk's office where he meets a representative of the CIA. Carter is shown a box containing the shriveled genitals of a man – the only remains of a CIA agent investigating a communist pornography ring based in Budapest, Hungary. Carter is ordered to infiltrate the pornography ring.

The cold war blazes hot as Killmaster hunts a diabolically clever double agent whose betrayal has set America up for a takeover. The US government is concerned that several of its covert military operations and diplomatic initiatives are being exposed resulting in the deaths of military personnel and allies and compromising foreign policy. AXE has traced the source of the leaks to a communist Chinese plot to bribe senior government officials. The paymaster’s identity is unknown but AXE has discovered that the information and foreign currency required to support his activities are being moved around the world via charter flights operated by a specialist tour company. Carter is ordered to join the next international tour and identify the paymaster.

Killmaster in a death duel with the golden-skinned Princess Electra whose evil beauty is the one trap N3 can’t resist. An AXE agent is murdered while investigating a Greek tourist agency, Golden Islands Promotions, which has been responsible for sponsoring large numbers of US visa applications. AXE chief, David Hawk, sends Nick Carter to Greece to investigate further.

Killmaster stalks a traitor to recover the nuclear plans that could crush America into radioactive dust. Carter is recuperating at his private lodge in Indiana when he is summoned by AXE chief, David Hawk, to uncover a traitor within the organization. It was just a routine case of murder. A clumsy hatchet job by an enraged husband on his nagging wife. The murdered fled with the FBI in pursuit. Until a check revealed the murderer worked for AXE with access to sensitive military information and for thirty years the guilty man was a clever enemy agent. Until AXE discovered that the Russian and Chinese were both on the trail to grab the man in possession of American atomic secrets. They would stop at nothing to get him. It was a job for Nick Carter. His orders were to mind the missing man and kill him fast, before the Russians and Chinese close in. The hunt led Nick across the underbelly of Asia, from exotic houses of pleasure to a guerrilla band's mountain hideout. This assignment was a terrifying in that America's existence depended on Nick Carter's success.

The novel is set in October 1967. Sun Yat, an elderly Chinese bookseller in San Francisco's Chinatown is murdered by Mafia hitmen who stage the murder to make it look like a Tong assassination. The murdered man is a double agent employed by AXE and Chinese communist agents.

Killmaster's most terrifying case! At the invitation of the Swedish intelligence service, Carter attempts to break into the high security underground military base in Musko. Deep in an abandoned section of the underground base he discovers a group of German technicians working on a secret project. Carter learns that the project is run by neo-Nazi Count Ulrich von Stadee before the entire group commits suicide by poison rather than be captured.

His assignment was to lure a depraved beauty into suicide – His mission was to save the United States from destruction! Theodore Blacker – small-time conman, drug-dealer and nightclub owner – is attempting to sell a pornographic film of himself and minor Portuguese royalty, Princess Morgan da Gama, to Chinese, African and Portuguese interests for GBP 250,000.

The wave of terror against America's astronauts could force the U.S. into war with China … and Killmaster's orders made him human bait. The Apollo space mission immediately prior to the moon mission explodes on the launchpad. AXE Chief, David Hawk, suspects sabotage and sends Nick Carter, agent N-3, to investigate.

Killmaster in a bizarre battle to stop the murder of every powerful official in the US – the Chicom call girl ring was the bait Four men – a senator, cabinet official, banker and Washington, D.C. lobbyist – have died suddenly apparently of natural causes. All the men own substantial shares in the same Middle East oil and munitions companies. David Hawk, chief of secret US intelligence agency AXE, is suspicious.

In which: Nick Carter assumes the identity of a man long dead and becomes involved with a woman whose body was built for betrayal David Hawk, chief of AXE, is asked by the head of British intelligence to assassinate Richard Philston – former head of MI6 who subsequently defected to Russia.

The deranged master of Peking's death factory plots to destroy both the U.S. and Russia - on voice command. Only one man can stop him!

In Which: 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.

In Which: Blood-curdling violence erupts across the tropical hell of the Amazon as Nick Carter battles a beautiful half-caste girl trained into a lethal weapon!

In A beautiful woman is Nick Carter's only lead in the hunt for a "new" Hitler, ready to seize power again.

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In which: Nick Carter and a beautiful nymphomaniac team up on a wild, bizarre manhunt through the jungles of Malaysia!

A terrifyingly flawless espionage plot... a thriller with and ending you'll remember for a long, long time! When terrorists threaten to blow Hawaii to the bottom of the ocean, the desperate call goes out for Nick Carter, Killmaster.

A macabre experiment in terror...A nightmare mission that pits Nick Carter against a power-mad monk in a terrifying global tug-of-war.

A macabre manhunt for a missing agent... A new Nick Carter thriller that will grip you in icy shock until its terrifying totally unexpected climax!

A mind-altering drug used to blackmail the world... A terrifying new twist on the slave trade... An assignment for Nick Carter that can't succeed, but dare not fail!

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

They were all-American heroes, scientifically programmed to assassinate. Nick Carter's orders were to stop them before they reached the President of the United States.

"This was the ultimate in hijacking. Russia's super-secret spy jet, stolen from a New York airport, whisked from under the noses of the guards, hidden - where? Nobody knew who had master-minded the plan, but Russia knew who to blame, and if they didn't get a satisfactory answer from the United States the missiles would take off. And Nick Carter's only clues were a few garbled words from a dying man - Julie."

An explosively up-to-the-minute thriller! An icy exercise in suspense that may be the best Nick Carter novel to date. On the map it looked like a waterlogged mass of rivers and canals. In reality it was the once Cambodian Mekong Delta, the richest rice bowl in South East Asia, occupied by the North Vietnamese. Watched by the U.S. and now suddenly the target of a takeover by a secret society dedicated to Cambodia for the Cambodians. The Secret Snake Society. Nick Carter's assignment was to find out if the Secret Snake's twisted goals was really for the benefit for Cambodia or actually for the benefit for the Chinese.

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Deadly risks and nerve chilling surprises. AXE had received information that the Chinese were constructing a top secret base impregnable to attack. The location of the Chinese installation was somewhere thousands of feet below the Arctic ice. Nick Carter's mission was to find the base and destroy it before the Chinese used it gain world dominance.

Nick Carter on a grizzly Mafia manhunt. An assignment exploding with sex, savagery, and revenge!

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Werewolf received first payment. More money on execution. No reason for doubt-successful in all other assassinations. Now F must die..traitor F must die.

A master criminal who ranks as number one on Nick Carter's death list A Turkish double agent who hires himself out as an assassin for the KGB. A renowned scientist who is both weapon and victim of a bizarre kidnap plot. They played leading parts in a lethal spy puzzle Nick Carter Killmaster had to solve.

Calcutta, Wednesday, 12:30 a.m. The explosion tore into the hot night, muffling the screams of the victims. It was the fourth bombing in two days. Peking, Wednesday, 7:00 a.m. The Chairman readied his troops for the attack. Was was a hair-trigger away. Moscow, Wednesday, 2:00 p.m. A lethal debate raged inside the Kremlin. An ultimatum was being prepared for the American President. Washington, Wednesday, 6:00 p.m. Nick Carter, Killmaster, was being briefed on his new assignment. His orders: Stop the Calcutta bombings before the holocaust strikes.

A bloody manhunt across Europe for a faceless killer.

What do attempted assassination of world leaders by their closest advisers, a stolen nuclear missile and identical blonde triplets have in common? Previously published by Award in 1973. This is first Ace/Charter edition, 1981. 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 is on the toughest assignment of his career. Infiltrate the American Mafia, destroy their drug routes and the men who run them.

Killmaster in a savage death dual with Mafia's top assassin!

The semi-savage white wolf with a deadly nuclear secret buried beneath his pelt. This was Nick Carter's new assignment.

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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.

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A Killmaster espionage chiller.

Who is the man known as Judas? To Italian Intelligence, he's a faceless killer behind the plot to assassinate the Pope. To AXE, American's secret espionage network he is the key to an ingenious, brutal espionage plot. To Nick Carter, he's a walking corpse, an enemy Nick had slain years before—and now must kill once more. Who is Judas? Amoral, sadistic, the coldly cunning mastermind behind the VATICAN V ENDETTA~ Who is Nick Carter? "American's number one espionage agent!"

A doomsday weapon, a sadistic mass-murderer, and a vicious terror gang play a game of life and death with Nick Carter Killmaster. A series of diplomatic hoaxes has brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Shiva, a subversive organization based in India, could be responsible. Only Nick Carter Killmaster can find out for sure. In New Delhi, the back streets prove hot and hazardous. Nick has to handle a band of crazed assassins, a heroin deal, a bizarre religious cult, a vengeful Indian warlord, and a new, awesomely destructive super-weapon. If he wants to stay alive he has to follow his hunches and watch out for the sign of the cobra.

Adventure - Mystery

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GREGORIUS: An eccentric billionaire with ambitious plans for a chain of luxury hoels. 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 bigest heroin operation the world has seen. It was Killmaster's job to find out which.

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A stolen nuclear time bomb. A blood-soaked manhunt to find it. A lethal Killmaster assignment exploding with action, suspense, and excitement. AXE might have let the small North African republic boil in its own bloodbath if it had not been for the "Cockeye". The "Cockeye" was the stolen missile, the deadliest weapon in NATO's nuclear arsenal. Nick Carter's assignment was to walk into this desert hell, alone, find the missile, and destroy it. He did not have much time. He had exactly SIX BLOODY SUMMER DAYS!

This is the language of death SHERPA: a band of professional revolutionaries who knew all the modern techniques of terror - and were inventing a few new ones. KANTI: self-styled 'spirit' of the revolution, as beautiful as she was deadly, an expert in all the lethal tricks of Kung-Fu. NARAYAN: an unscrupulous Nepalese aristocrat who would sell anything - and anybody - for personal gain. KUNWAR: a killer who could run like a jungle cat and kill as quickly and viciously. The place was Nepal. The time was now. Killmaster had to learn a new language of death and this time the fate of Asia depended on his learning it right!

100th Anniversary Edition. Contents: Dr. Death Run, Spy, Run (the first modern Nick Carter novel, originally published in 1964) The Original Nick Carter: An Introduction by J. Randolph Cox The Preposterous Theft (a dime-novel story from the turn of the 20th Century)

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In Salobin's head was enough information to keep the United States on top of the Soviets for years. Salobin had been feeding the CIA until things got too hot in Russia and he slipped over the border into Turkey, boarding a train for Istanbul. But he never arrived. Washington got a note: Send a man to Beirut to meet a two-bit hood named Rafei. Rafei would take Nick Carter to where Salobin was being held prisoner. But someone else knew about the meeting. Someone who was planning an ambush that would eliminate Nick and the most important Russian defector in ten years. In a single burst of machine gun fire!!

Within 48 hours, airliners will crash into the world's major financial centers...unless Nick Carter can stop Shintu's men.

The microfilm was missing. Already more than a dozen men had been brutally murdered for it. And Nick Carter was scheduled to be next. Around the world....on the trail of murder Saigon It was the last days of the war, and in the middle of the bloodshed Nick has to find a man named Walter Corbin. And the roll of microfilm. He found his man just in time to see his head scattered into a million pieces. Hong Kong The trail from sampan city, where silence was safety, to a series of brutal, vicious murders, Nick Carter Killmaster was certain of one thing. The organization behind those killings had more at stake than roll of film. Washington Nick needed an update from Hawk. He called the States, but AXE had vanished! Free to die in Hong Kong gutter while powerful men made plans for global revenge!

Nick Carter's mission was to hunt down and destroy the brutal Albanian who was the world's most deadliest assassin. What is the link between .......... Creighton Davies The Canadian millionaire whose favorite charities were the most violent political extremists. Mike Kaplan The New York manufacturer who made the insane single-handed attempt on the millionaire's life. Lil Chan Lee Davies' very beautiful and very private secretary, who kept turning up when Nick Carter least expected her, in his bed. Lothar Camaj The Albanian killer who was trying to infiltrate Davies' entourage. The link between the Albanian secret service and the eccentric millionaire would draw Nick Carter "Killmaster" into a labyrinth of betrayal and violence.

Soviet Premier Kidnapped! Nick's mission is to find him before detente turns to wholesale murder! Pravda screamed for war. The CIA and the FBI were helpless. AXE had one lead: a telegram that said Nichovev would be executed in four days, signed "The Great Mother, Who is Death, and the Old Man of the Mountains, who is her Deputy on Earth." Nick Carter had little time to locate the headquarters of an international organization of death-worshiping occultist who, behind the smokescreen of comparative religion, practices human sacrifice. They killed for one reason: they worshiped death and were addicted to it. Now they were prepared a high priority offering. Their habit was growing so they devised a scheme for starting war by assassinating the Soviet Premier!

Nick Carter combats an ex-Nazi's incredible plot to take over the hemisphere! It began with the brutal slaying of a reporter who moved in too close/ And the kidnapping of his pretty Latin informant. The CIA and FBI people knew it was too complex for them. So they called Nick Carter, AXE Killmaster N3. The target was Steyer, an ex-Nazi with mad dreams of conquest. What dreaded secret did Steyer hold? What could be so secret, so sinister, that he hid it in a billion dollar narcotics ring? Following the trail of corpses from one end of South America to the other, from Buenos Aires to Columbia, Nick Carter had to solve this riddle. Finally, in a pitched battle that saw U.S. Marines, the CIA, FBI, the Cuban navy, and the kingpin of Soviet intelligence pitted against each other, Nick Carter had to negotiate the murderous crossfire and try to bring in Steyer alive.

Four power-mad generals, an engineering genius, a beautiful astrophysicist, and an aristocratic Spaniard caught Nick Carter "Killmaster" in a deadly trap. Their diabolical plot brought the world to its knees.... One by one the letters came. Each warning of an impending airliner disaster. Soon after each letter a jumbo jet would crash from the sky in a hideous orgy of destruction. The world was shocked by the carnage. Nick was the final hope. But could he escape in time to halt the ultimate weapon of death. Four doddering generals with money and power to get what they wanted......revenge! El General Felipe Quintero was descended from the Conquistadors, but he had been badly hurt by strafing German planes in the 1930's. On his ranch in Spain he plotted............................ Major-General Emilien Gignoux received a stunning blow during WW II when ground strafing planes almost wiped out his infantry troops. He never received another command. He remembered and was ready........... Lieutenant-General Aleksei Akimov's tanks were blown out of action is first day in the Ukraine and he was lucky not to be put in front of a Soviet firing squad. He could not forget the humiliation........... Colonel-General Otto Schneider's trucks and armored personnel carriers could not move for three days because of American fighter-bombers. It was too late when he could. His grudge has grown and festered... They pooled their resources and got the best brain to assuage their long-wounded dignity. And the harrowing terror campaign against the skies began.... Could Nick Carter outmaneuver them...?

Their business is death and it is Nick Carter's job to stop them! From a bizarre death camp in Java to the teeming streets of Djakarta. From a Beirut prison cell to the glittering casinos of Europe. Nick Carter "Killmaster" tracks the leader of the New Alliance, whose business is death and whose goal is the extermination of millions. The Pan-Arab Protection Society and The Black Dragon Society have joined forces with The Butcher Boy of Belsen in a desperate struggle to strangle the world economy. Two beautiful young women are mercilessly killed, Arab oil sheiks are mysteriously slain, with the weapons of Nick Carter. As a fierce nationalist Japanese plots a vendetta against Nick. One false step and a tidal wave of hate will be unleashed against the world!

A fanatical scheme to start an epidemic of murder! The embassy party ended with a bang. Nick Carter "Killmaster N3" was there to protect the VIPs. He realized he had failed when the main attraction, a magician, did a vanishing act and the British Ambassador was found in a cake of ice, with a dagger in his chest. Nick is left with a cold trail that gets suddenly hot when he discovers that the murderer has a list of victims. Nick's name is on it, so is his boss David Hawk. The only clues are the disappearing magician and a boot heel that leads him to the headquarters of the Red Swineherd Gang. Finding them is just a setup for the big threat. Because they have the Doomsday Spore, a deadly virus picked up on a space mission, that eats away human flesh. It could be a bluff, but why is the press running the headline. End Of The World?!

Senator Howard Chan is a likely Vice-Presidential nominee, until his son vanishes into the Hawaiian jungle. So it is off to Hawaii for Nick Carter and this assignment is no holiday!. In the guise of veteran surfer Terry Gilliam, Nick tackles the wild island surf and a group of conspirators who give him more trouble than a rip-tide. Jimmy Chan: The Senator's son has to be found and debriefed before his crew of rabble rousers get out of hand. Maida Chan: The Senator's daughter dies an agonizing and bizarre death. The biggest mystery is that she died willingly! Kathy Longo: A stunning surfer. But does she know more than how to ride a wave? Maida Chan was her best friend. And the meanwhile, somewhere on the islands, in the depths of dead volcanoes, a crop of mushrooms is being cultivated that are more lethal than the Defense Department's deadliest nerve gas!

The new terrorist cartel, NOTCH, wanted to pollute the West with Bubonic plague. Nick Carter stopped them and terminated their agents. But if Nick thinks he can take a breather, that is because he has not talked to his boss, David Hawk. And if Nick is not careful, he won't be seeing David Hawk anymore. Because NOTCH is far from finished. Their goal is to expose AXE, and to start eliminating operatives, from the top....

Nick is sent to the Far East with an urgent deadline and one clue: "D-Day!" Countdown To Holocaust! Benny Chang, ace reporter out of Singapore, turned up dead. So Nick Carter decided to try his hand at journalism. Because Benny was working for AXE. And he was onto something very big. As the new stringer, Nick gets advice from: Yashida Arimoto, a beautiful Japanese, who seems to be just around the corner every time a corpse appears...and Anna Yen, an Australian lovely, who knows a little too much about special codes and firearms for your average correspondent. They are all tracking the same story. Why was Benny killed? What is "Day of the Dingo" and when? And what are Colonel Fung and his Red guerrillas up to in Malaya? If Nick does not get his facts checked, tomorrow's edition will scream "Final!" for the free world!

A terrorist plot that hinges on a night at the opera! Nick Carter is on loan to the Spanish government to sort out the murders of top military officials, and the kidnapping of General Rodriguez. In the hands of El Grupo Febero the General and his top secret documents would mean victory for the whole network of European terrorists. Nick's only clue to the whereabouts of the terrorists is a small gold match. And the only similar matches in Spain are to be found in the households of its most powerful and influential family!...........And the trail leads Nick into the one of the most bizarre intrigues of his career!

A lovely Russian spy joins Nick Carter Killmaster in a spiderweb of intrigue! A Detente With Death It is no mean feat to keep a man alive if someone seriously wants him dead. It is even harder if you have to work alone, and it's next to impossible if you're trying to keep the protectee from knowing you're his protector. But that was Nick Carter's assignment. and the "protectee" was Karl Bartov, top KGB agent. AXE moves in mysterious ways, this time sending agent N3, Killmaster, from luxurious surroundings in Barcelona to chilly Warsaw. Until he finds himself in a Moscow prison facing the most diabolical torturer of his career.

The Soviets are dealing and China holds the wild cards! In the high desert not for from Las Vegas is the most secret and critical military testing site in the country. And when its chief scientist Dr. Richard Burlison is found dead it means that the enemy is on to Project Eighth Card! With the help of Burlison's very cooperative widow, Nick Carter is betting blind, and the stake are world peace!

A routine assignment, until it starts looking like Nick Carter's farewell performance! Bringing the girl out of Mexico is just delicate enough to call for Nick Carter's talents, but nothing fancy. Until Nick finds out that his support system has failed. AXE has been pulled our from under him and he is suddenly persona no grata in Washington D.C. And his boss, David Hawk, has disappeared! It's high suspense when Nick Carter "Killmaster N3" strikes out on his own against a ring of white slavers with very sensitive OPEC connections!

A dead CIA agent's fingerprints at a crime scene is the first link in a deadly chain! Item: A robbery at Chase Manhattan turns up a bizarre clue. The fingerprints of Warren Graves, CIA, deceased. Item: Margot Kidner has a list of ex-CIA agents with reason for revenge. How does she know that Nick Carter might be interested in her little list? Item: Larry Burke, Washington-based syndicated columnist, on ever government agency's favorite "enemies list" turns up dead. Poisoned with a sophisticated drug simulating heart attack. Before long it's clear to Nick Carter "Killmaster". The most sensitive assassination in modern times is about to off without a hitch. Unless he can get to Havana first. Peace in the Western Hemisphere will be a nice memory!

Ancient rivalries threaten peace in the hemisphere! Nicarxa and Apalca. Idyllic island republics in the Caribbean. Until Don Carlos Italla, monk turned warlord and guerrilla leader, chooses one of them for as hideout. In a bizarre struggle for power and influence in the Americas, Nick Carter "Killmaster", AXE agent N3, has to ferret out the guerrillas and fend off the Cuban marine forces. All without the official recognition of the U.S. government! Deep in the tropical mountains, Alto Arete stands, an impregnable fortress. Nick Carter's job is to conquer it and Don Carlo's crazed army of "monks" before peace in the Western Hemisphere becomes no more than a fond memory!

A gypsy girl holds the key to a Pandora's Box of mass murder! The IRA wants it to blackmail Parliament. The PLO wants it to destroy Israel and Egypt. Dr. Rauffmann stole it from the Soviets to start a Fourth Reich. And an innocent gypsy girl buries in a garden in Istanbul to keep it safe. Nick Carter's mission is to find it, the vial containing recombinant bacteria with grotesque and pervasive effects. Find Dr Rauffmann, its creator, and do what has to be done. With the KGB and PLO following every step of the way.

A sleepy border town turns into a fire zone of terror! On a mission of assassination, a group of Mid-East terrorists begin their underground journey in the U.S. The point of entry: Brownsville-Matamoros region of Texas. Method: Slip in with the masses of illegal aliens that make it across the border daily. Identities: Unknown! And if Nick Carter does not stop them dead. The legislative powers of the U.S. will grind to a halt. With panic no far behind!

A technical genius plots to devastate the U.S continent! Earthquake! When Nick Carter flew over San Diego all he could see was a dense cloud of brick dust. The city was virtually gone. Next stop was Los Angeles, as the quake worked its way up the fault line. And the devastation was man-made! The only suspects both deny that the quakes could be technologically induced. But AXE records prove that either one had the skill and the equipment to be the Q-Man. Nick has to find out who it is before the continent is utterly destroyed!

The U.S. space shuttle is being sabotaged. To protect a diabolical new Soviet weapon! Nick Carter "Killmaster N3" is taking a break from the spy game with a luscious woman under the warm Florida sun. But before long that very sun takes on a sinister quality, Since the Russians have found a way to harness and direct its terrible power. First Chinese military posts are struck. Then vital U.S. communication centers. Finally, when a NASA project collapses, Nick begins his desperate mission, taking him into the heart of Soviet Russia, and inevitably, into the arms of the beautiful Martina Dubronik, a U.S. deep cover agent. A bizarre battle with Cossacks and a confrontation in earth's near orbit hurtle Nick Carter and the fate of U.S. security, into a thrilling climax.

A cargo of contamination headed for U.S. shores! Securing the beta canister with its contents without upsetting OPEC's delicate balance is near routine challenge for Nick Carter "Killmaster N3". Until he learns that its deadly cargo is playing a crucial role in a vast and sinister Soviet scheme. The contents: Fatally radioactive Strontium 90. Which can reduce human flesh to raw meat and promises a hideous and painful death! The location: Aboard a Japanese tanker heading for California and the nation's largest oil refinery! The clincher: The distinct possibility that Nick Carter himself has already been contaminated!

The game is assassination and Nick Carter is the target! Island Of Pleasure The assignment would be simple. Act as backup man to two agents. This would give Nick Carter "Killmaster N3" time to recover from extensive injuries received on a recent mission. But suddenly there is no time, because the bullets start flying and Nick receives a warning note. He is a marked man, wanted by two assassins. One to carry out a personal vendetta, and the other to rid the field of its top agent, Nick Carter!

A fallen meteor sets off a deadly international race to get the precious metal in its core! To Hell and Back The Mukhino tribesman refer to it as the cauldron of hell. and it's the site of Nick Carter's next mission. The Location: The highly inaccessible Amur River section of Chinese Manchuria, the border between China and Russia, and the site of a large crater made by a recent meteorite fall. The Mission: Get into the meteorite's core and bring back Lidanium, an element highly absorbent of radioactivity and both powerful and priceless to its possessor. And the race is on, but suddenly trusted friends become deadly enemies as Nick Carter "Killmaster N3" discovers the race has been fixed and he can not possibly win, or escape!

One more assassination could launch a global war! When four Third World diplomats are quietly assassinated, Nick Carter's assignment is to stop future killings. But the trouble is that there are almost no clues, and Nick's only lead is brutally murdered. But then Nick meets three of Paris' most stunning models, and discovers that one is moonlighting as a cold blooded killer. And in just two days a group of diplomats is scheduled to attend an oil summit meeting in Paris. If Nick Carter does not stop the killer and the major power behind her, another assassination will ignite a war that could easily turn into a global disaster!

A game of death where the only clue is a chess piece. And it's the red queen! Chessmaster-Killmaster The name of the game was chess. And Nick carter "Killmaster N3" had exactly twenty seven days to become a master at it. The Chessmaster, Alex Belnikov, the new Soviet champion, who held vital information that could cripple Russia. It was a mere token of gratitude for asylum in the United States. Switzerland, the location of the world tournament of champions and the site of a bloody battle of wits. Pitting Nick Carter against a diabolical enemy in a sinister game were there are no rules. Only certain death for the loser.

His final wish: To destroy the one true warrior equal to himself, Nick Carter! When one assignment after another turns into false alarms and he is viciously attacked by a man he's never seen before, Nick Carter is at a loss to explain it all. Until a beautiful Japanese girl bring shim the microscopic key yo the entire AXE computer network, and tells him a mad electronics genius awaits his pleasure in a castle by the sea. armed to the teeth and ready to do battle. But when one battle ends and another begins, Nick confronts an opponent the likes he has never seen, one who possesses strength and skill far greater than any one man, and whose identity is enough to shock Nick into doubting his own sanity!

The Plan: Kill the President of the United States. The Assassin: Nick Carter He Masterminded The Strontium Code Nikolai Fedor Kobelev, code name, Puppet Master, an insane but exceedingly brilliant man, and next in line to become the head of KGB. His diabolical master plan would explode into a final world war, with Russia emerging as the victor. He had to be stopped......permanently! The man to do it, Nick Carter "Killmaster N3". The counter plan would be equally insane. Drastically alter the mind of Nick Carter to become that of a disgruntled CIA agent ready to defect to the Russians. Only the plan works too well, and suddenly Nick finds himself sought after by his country, to be stopped...........permanently!

Brutal acts of terrorism are used as a disguise for a broader and more sinister plot! When the American embassy in Santo Domingo is captured by terrorists and the ailing ambassador held for ransom, Nick Carter is called in to do the impossible. But when a bright, young American diplomat turns up murdered, and a beautiful Haitian women appeals to Nick for help, he realizes he is involved in a web of intrigue that is more than mere acts of terrorism. The plot thickens when Nick discovers that the overt acts of violence are just the facade for a much more daring scheme.

Monaco becomes a mad circus as eleven top agents compete against one another for a powerful formula. When a notebook containing the formula to a highly powerful thermo-nuclear weapon turns up in Monaco, Nick Carter immediately takes off for the beautiful and glamorous principality in the south of France. But so do ten other top agents from nations that want the notebook just as badly. As the deadly race begins, Nick jumps easily ahead of the others and beat his opponents to the precious notebook. But the race is not over yet., because now ten of the worlds top agents share one common goal. Get Nick Carter!

His bizarre scheme: To become king of all the Americas! One by one the major countries of the world are rocked with crippling earthquakes. the earth shattering explosions are the workings of a madman who calls himself "Earth Shaker". And the United States is next. Unless Nick Carter, Killmaster, can stop him first. And the race is on as Nick soars from Mediterranean to Paris, and on to Mexico City to thwart the efforts of the mysterious "Earth Shaker". But his only clue is the man with the sloping forehead and the crossed eyes...

Classification: Traitor When Nick Carter is tipped off that a Russian spy has been secreted into the U.S. in conjunction with a new and highly important missile project. Nick Must find out why. But what he uncovers is much more than he bargained for. Against Hawk's orders and with the aid of a beautiful lady journalist, Nick is determined to find out why top government officials have entered into acts of treason. But suddenly the situation gets too hot when the President himself orders Nick Carter's arrest, the charge.....treason!

The holder of the powerful death ray could vaporize entire armies in mere seconds! A long, sleek shadow moves silently and stealthily beneath the gloomy arctic waters. On the surface of the icy waters and not too far away sits a U.S submarine at its rendezvous point. Suddenly the shadowy form emerges from the water and fires an eerie "deathlight" at the unsuspecting sub, disintegrating it instantly. A hundred yards away Nick Carter stops swimming and stares transfixed at the spot the sub had been only seconds before. The Plot: The Soviet Invasion of Europe The Weapon: "Deathlight" a deadly particle beam. The Mission: Turn the weapon against itself and destroy!

A routine mission threatens to turn into worldwide disaster for Nick Carter! David Ben Weisman, Israel's Foreign Minister, believed his nightmare had ended with the conclusion of World War II. But suddenly the nightmare is beginning ll over again. And this time he would not escape. Max von Schteig. "The Dark Angel" and other mad Nazi war criminals had waited a lifetime to send one man to hell, the only known person to escape his death grip. David Ben Weisman. And now "The Dark Angel" is back and Israel's Froeign Minister would be used as a pawn to fulfill von Schteig's sinister dream. The rise of the Fourth Reich and the conquering of the world! Nick Carter's mission: Stop him dead!

The Mission: Confirm that DeGourcy and El Cazador are one and the same and... destroy! Wanted: Sprague DeGourcy, alias El Cazador, the notorious political assassin wanted dead or alive by a dozen governments including the U.S. and her allies. When Nick Carter "Killmaster N3" gets a tip that Sprague DeGourcy, the highly respected comptroller for the Bank of Geneva, might be the infamous El Cazador, he goes in to investigate. But suddenly the tables mare turned when Nick discovers that instead of being the hunter, he has become the hunted. By El Cazador himself. And "the hunter" will not rest until Nick Carter is dead!

Massive death strikes the South Pole as Nick Carter races to uncover the source of a deadly biological nerve gas. The man had been driving much too fast, and suddenly his snowmobile plunged down into a deep ravine. As a hissing sound escaped from one of the gas canisters, he started screaming in horrendous pain, biting through his tongue and drowning in his own blood.... The helicopter with the pilot and crewmen landed safely at the research installation. But minutes later a horrifying scream for help came over the radio. And then nothing..... When all contact is lost with an American research camp doing military work on genetic engineering, Nick Carter is sent to McMurdo Sound to do the obvious. But when one hideous corpse turns up after another, Nick soon realizes that nothing can prepare him for what he is about to discover.

It's a race against time as Nick tries to prevent another Jonestown massacre. When Nick Carter agrees to help an old friend find her brother who has run off and joined the Church of the Final Reward, Nick ferars he might have stumbled onto another Jonestown incident. The members are required to sign away their fortunes which will go to the Church upon their deaths. But suddenly his friend disappears and his worse fears are confirmed as he follows her trail to the jungles of the Amazon where he makes a shocking discovery. After members are drugged, they are willingly led to the sacrificial altar to commit the ultimate act in the name of the Church...suicide. And it looks like Nick Carter might be too late to stop it.

The top governments of the world will kill to get their hands on the one manuscript that could destroy them...... Ricardo Mendoza: He has been they top free-lance agent in the world of espionage, and how he is retiring, but with one hitch. He will leave behind something the world will remember him by....The Mendoza Manuscript. Nick Carter: The top AXE agent and the best in the business, has to get a hold of the manuscript first and stop it from being published. The contents, a revealing expose that could be both embarrassing and crippling to the top governments of the world, including the United States!

When he witnessed the deadly tsetse fly claim its first victim, Nick knew this would be no ordinary assignment. Dr. Bron Faber, the brilliant Afrikaner biochemist would use his genetically mutated flies to carry out his ultimate to become dictator of Africa-then the world!

A toy factory explosion in Japan sets the stage for another Hiroshima disaster! When an old friend of Hawk's enlists his aid to check into a toy factory explosion in Hiroshima, Hawk send Nick Carter to Japan to handle the routine assignment. But when Nick is welcomed with a barrage of snipers' bullets at Tokyo International Airport, he begins to uncover an insane plot that threatens the lives of millions of Americans. It is up to him to destroy the group known as the Sons of August Six before they cause death and destruction across the American continent. Making the bombing of Hiroshima look like a mere fireworks display in comparison.

An American scientist becomes the target of an unknown killer. And Nick Carter must protect him, with his own life! From the moment David Hawk tell Nick Carter that he has a nice easy one for him, Nick expects the worst, and gets it. Yet he had to admit the assignment did seem unusually easy. In the role of private investigator, play bodyguard to an American scientist attending an international summit meeting of scientists from all over the world. But from the moment Nick Carter "Killmaster" arrives in Athens, vicious attempts are made on the lives of the scientist and his beautiful wife. And then suddenly the worst occurs to Nick. Could the United States government be setting up their most celebrated scintillate to be killed?

The Australian desert harbors a deadly enemy. Nick's mission: Find and destroy! Nick Carter "Killmaster N3" is anxious to test his new desert warfare training when a mission to the Australian Outback offers him the perfect chance. A Russian radar base is hidden somewhere in the cast desert, and it's Nick's job to track it down and eliminate it. Led by beautiful anthropologist Daniela Rhys-Smith, Nick's target is a lonely sheep station deep in the aboriginal wilderness. But when a suspicious plane crash leaves them stranded miles into the barren desert without food or shelter, Nick realizes that he has more to worry about than the aborigines or the KGB. Someone very unexpected and very dangerous, is out to make sure Nick Carter does not get out of this mission alive!

Agent N3 enlists the aid of a bizarre cult to stop a Russian takeover! Subduing the Russians single-handedly is an awesome assignment, even for Killmaster Nick Carter. But when David Hawk informs him that the Russian invasion of Afghanistan is an attempt to seize the strategically located Khyber Pass, Nick has no choice. Still, he has to get some help. And the only place to get it is from an ancient religious death cult high in the Hindu Kush. But first Nick has to get to their leader...alive.

Nick Carter tracks down an international murderer. Who's killing in his name. There's a madman cold-bloodily murdering the commissars of Russia. A madman who calls himself Nick Carter. And the KGB is ready to do away with the real Nick Carter to stop him. Unless Killmaster N3 can eliminate the imposter first, and do it before he sparks an international incident that would blow AXE's cover wide open. And lead to all-out global war.

In the frozen wilderness of Alaska, the AXE Killmaster plays the most dangerous game..... From his Alaskan school of assassins, psychotic ex-AXE agent Russell Chapman sens his cold blooded killers to destroy his former colleagues, including Nick Carter, as the first step in his plan to establish a new world order. But when Nick warms the bed and heart of Chapman's prize pupil, the gorgeous Laraine Shadwell turns against her insane teacher. She and Nick go to Chapman's frigid fortress where his assignment is to bring back the head of the murderous headmaster. Trivia Berkley Publishing Group took over Ace Charter Books in July 1982. The working title was called Those Who Survive.

As the only KGB assassin to have taken Nick Carter and won, the mysterious Death Dealer ranks as one of AXE's most wanted enemies. Only one man, Polish dissident Stefan Borczak, holds the clues that can unmask him. Now Borczak has defected, and AXE is closing in on the missing pieces. It's up to agent N3 to uncover them, before the Death Dealer can execute his most treacherous mission yet.

White investigating a murder, Nick traces the killer to Argentina, to ex-Nazi General Marc Ziegler. With the help of Ziegler's beautiful secretary, Nick penetrates the innermost secrets of Ziegler's empire, down to his deadly nuclear arsenal. Somehow agent N3 must stop the ruthless general before he carries out his scheme, more terrifying than the horrors of the Third Reich!

A gorgeous scientist with top-secret talents becomes a walking time bomb. And only Nick Carter "Killmaster" can rescue her! A beautiful model vanishes on the eve of her international debut and Nick carter receives orders to track her down. A routine assignment turns into a desperate search when Nick learns that the model's sister is a high-level scientist, and an international ring of terrorist would love to get their dirty hands on her. But what looks like a simple kidnapping is actually a deadly scheme that could imperil the future of the free world!

When the U.S. and Russia become locked in a deadly power struggle over a small Caribbean island, AXE sends in agent Nick Carter to tip the scales. But this will be easy win. Valuable ore beneath the island's surface makes it a crucial possession, and the Russian sympathizers are close to winning a bloody civil war. Agent N3 must do battle with the Soviet's most dangerous agent, and prevent Russian control of one of the world's richest resource.

Secret agent Nick Carter risks his life to investigate a deadly Soviet plot to turn American soldiers into drug addicts

When a nuclear device explodes on a Saudi Arabian oil field, fingers point to Israeli military forces. But American leaders are unconvinced and send in Nick Carter to discover who is really responsible. Pursued by ruthless killers, Nick runs a race against time to prevent the next act of international terrorism. And confront the man who would trigger World War III.

When a U.S. nuclear submarine is hijacked by terrorists, Nick Carter steps in. But as he tracks the sub on its course to Russia, mysterious brushes with death and dangerous bureaucratic meddling convince Nick there's more to this case than meets the eye. Commanded by an evil genius, the terrorists are hellbent on instigating World War III. It's up to Nick Carter Killmaster to stop them, before they set the world on an irreversible course to nuclear holocaust.

Something is rotten in the gambling capitals of the world. From Monte Carlo to Vegas, South American businessman Juan Rojas is quickly amassing a fortune, and the gathering together the world's most treacherous mercenary leaders, which can only spell trouble for the U.S. It's up to Killmaster N3 Nick Carter to find out what Rojas is plotting, and stop it, fast. With the help of the enigmatic beauty Carmella Perez, Nick tracks the villain from one posh casino to the next, matching wits and weapons, until the final showdown....

A forty-year dream is coming true, and the Geneva talks on the unification of Germany are underway. But there's dissension within the party old guard and AXE suspects a plot by hard-liners to kill the Russian delegate before an agreement is signed. Nick's mission is to infiltrate the KGB, penetrate the highest circles of Soviet Power and prevent the murder of a country before it is born!

Nick Carter "Killmaster N3" 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, Nick doesn't know where or when. But espionage has its own deadly etiquette, and with the help of a beautiful double agent and a black market death-merchant, Nick proves that there are ways to get invited to even the most exclusive, and most deadly affairs.

Diamonds may be forever, but certain of these precious jewels may lead to a global crisis—especially when Soviet-backed troops plan to invade Namibia and seize the great boron-diamond mine, the key to laser weaponry. With a handful of mercenaries and the aid of a beautiful South African geologist, Nick must beat the odds of the Angolan jungle and bring the world back from the brink of destruction!

Aeroflot Flight 9 is carrying a cargo of stolen U.S. secrets to Moscow. Yet more and more it resembles a hearse, with the blood of KGB agents trickling down its isles, corpses in its lavatories. This is because Nick Carter "Killmaster" is on Flight 9's tail. And Nick is determined that the plane will never reach its destination. Because if it does, the global showdown will begin, and this maybe...the last flight to Moscow!

A fever. A coma. Then sudden death. The latest in high-tech genocide from a renegade Russian scientist bent to "purifying the world." Forced into teaming up with the KGB, Nick Carter trails the world-class murderer to his impenetrable fortress in the frozen Antarctic waste. But this time, even the honed and deadly skills of the AXE Killmaster may not be enough to stop a madman who has the power to kill millions overnight.....

The Killmaster had never met a more deadly enemy. Nor a more beautiful one. Unknown to him, Raina's only mission in life was to avenge her father's death—by killing Carter in the most hideous fashion imaginable. At their appointed rendezvous in the Casbah of Tangier, Carter realized he had walked into a trap. There was a recorded message in Raina's voice, revealing her group's plan to break into NATO computers and trigger a nuclear attack. As the time loudly ticked away, poisonous gas hissing through the vents, Carter knew the dreaded hour had arrived at last ...

When a plot to assassinate Sheik Menbali El Kassier is discovered just before he is to sign a history-making treaty, AXE sends in Nick Carter "Killmaster N3" to bail him out. The mission: Infiltrate Kassier's dazzling entourage and root out a killer so effective he has never been seen. Muamed Quadish, alias, The Fox.Playing the role of a journalist, Nick teams up with a beautiful Israeli operative and enters the decadent world of globe-trotting, bed-hopping, and sudden death.

What do a Mafia hit man and a former Green Beret turned mercenary have in common? They're both double agents for an unknown terrorist group killing off high government officials, and now they're dead! Nick Carter's assignment: Find the next agent before he completes another execution. It's not going to break Nick's heart when he finds out that the double agent is his friend's widow...

The secret that blow the Iron Curtain wide open was almost in Nick Carter's hand. Almost. But not quite. It was a jigsaw puzzle. The secret knowledge Alexander Tarlov had defected with was all in code and the key to the cipher was tattooed on the body of a lovely but mysterious woman. Nick was desperately trying to find her. So was the KGB.

A ruthless arms dealer. A routine assassination. A tape-recorded legacy. Suddenly the death of Hamir Aflaq was far from insignificant. For one of the men who had been fooled enough to get in the way for Nick Carter's AK-47 was a kingpin in the newly formed terrorist group, the People's Party For Peace. And the last words he spoke told of a plot by the KGB to kidnap two senior British officials. And destroy the free world's entire espionage network....

Colonel Arkadi Ganin. A man of many identities and one motive. Kill Nick Carter "Killmaster N3". Ganin had been on a lot of assignments in his distinguished career, but none compared to this one. It was the sort of thing he liked most. This time there would be on flabby, unaware politician to kill; no military leader, no general, no diplomat. This time he was going after a much more interesting target. A target that would fight back. Ganin was ready for it. Nick Carter, one on one, to the death........

Agent N3 battles the 5000 deadliest killers in the world! Operation: Black Mamba What was it? And why was Nick Carter the target? The situation: Financial aid and donations of food were not reaching destinations in Africa. And there were rumors of an elite mercenary force based in Zaire who would work for anyone who paid high enough, attack anyone and anything. And they had been recently hired for an attack so deadly that it could destroy American security in the Third World.....

A savage military takeover is threatening the small African nation of Togo. Inside connections say it's the dirty work of the KGB. AXE intelligence says it's a job for Nick Carter. En route to the African coast, Nick is not alone as armed troops are poised on the Togo frontier. Are the Soviets actually involved? Washington thinks not. But temperatures are rising, the military is reaching the boiling point and Nick Carter is in for a few deadly surprises....

The Soviets have perfected a new military device. The weapon: A low-level particle beam laser gun. The target: American communication and military intelligence satellites. The solution: An American tunnel beneath the Berlin Wall which taps into a terminus of telephone cables serving both East German and Soviet headquarters. If the tunnel lasts only a month, it will be a brilliant espionage coup. But a security leak has been uncovered in West German Intelligence. A mole, an informant and he must be stopped. Enter Agent N3 Nick Carter....The Killmaster.

No one knew what it was. Or where it came from. Or why it had begun its rampage of destruction. Attacking scuba divers with its deadly sting. Sabotaging top secret U.S. installations for a "Star Wars" project. Destroying a Soviet spy sub. A biological weapon of unknown origins, the green vegetation thriving in the Pacific waters, striking and disappearing, inflaming the tension between the U.S. and Russia. Nick Carter is fast on the tracks of the mysterious force. But the plot has already been triggered........

Boris Vandrostov. The very name inspired terror. He is the KGB's top assassin, as well as their field expert in chemical interrogation. If a man knew something the KGB wanted to know, Vandrostov could get it out of him. For ten years, Carter had chased the Russian killer. But the KGB man had always managed to slip away—once after taking out two good AXE agents and putting a slug in Carter's lung. Now, both killmasters are in Lisbon, bidding against each other to buy a secret that would revolutionize modern warfare. And they both know one sure way of getting it...

The Amazon. A jungle hell of vicious predators, but none as cruel as mercenary Colonel Zack Anderson, whose private army stands ready to build an empire in South America. But soon Anderson's jungle domain is invaded, not by an army, but by one man. Nick Carter, AXE master spy and top killmaster. Alone, unarmed, agent N3 is about to become prey of a savage jungle manhunt

The Petrograd submarine, Russia's newest and deadliest war-toy, is NATO's worst nightmare. So, when a Russian naval officer offers the sub's plans and maintenance manual for sale, the CIA station chief in Tokyo jumps at the chance. Both get more than they bargained for. Hours later, Russian-seller and CIA-buyer are dead—gunned down by the KGB. But the microchip with the plans has vanished. With the plans up for grabs, Tokyo becomes a chess board of intrigue in a deadly game of Far Eastern espionage. But the Killmaster is playing for higher stakes. As Soviet and Western agents clash, N3 goes after the sub itself....

They call him Reguiba, Moroccan death merchant extraordinaire. With an army of desert jackals who live to kill and kill to live, he's got the manpower, the hardware and the petrodollars to pull any job, no matter how bloody. Hit target: The American allies in the Middle East. His goal: The total breakdown of Western alliances. His biggest obstacle: Agent N3 Nick Carter

The Dehli Strike: Five CIA agents spirited out of the U.S. Embassy tortured and murdered by an ancient Indian clan of killers. The assassins were in it for blood lust and money. Kremlin money. The trail of terror leads Nick Carter straight to Rogov, KGB master spy, and his deadly ally, the voluptuous, power-crazed Maharanee of Sardar. Nick had one shot, before the world's largest democracy goes up in bright red flames.

The One Hundred Eyes. Murderers for hire, terrorists for profit. They claim allegiance to no country. Now these international hit men have set their sights on an entire continent. Nick Carter has seen their kind before, but never on such a grand or ambitious scale. Even the Russians are stymied. And only Agent N3 can cancel their campaign of terror..

They call him the Hunter. Once he worked free-lance for the CIA. Now he's a rogue killer, a jet-setting assassin with his finger on the trigger. Only Nick Carter can stop him. But are Agent N3's formidable skills a match for a madman-turned-traitor? Soon Nick is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse. As a global conspiracy unravels with each bloody encounter, the only way to keep score is through a body count of unlucky losers.

A summit of world leaders could bring lasting peace to the Middle East. And it's Nick Carter's mission to insure the safety of the participants. But Ja'il Rahman, a deadly assassin for a radical PLO spinster group, has pledged a bloody campaign of terror. He's set his cross hairs on the gathering heads of state in a violent conspiracy that stretches from Jordon to Luxembourg. War is one bullet away as Nick unravels an international web of lethal intrigue, Soon it's Nick Carter "Killmaster" against a murderous fanatic in the center of a terrorist blood storm.

High in the Peruvian Andes, an earthquake uncovers the wreckage of a plane that crashed twenty years before. Amid the rubble are the remains of a legendary superspy. The evidence makes it murder, and the job for Nick Carter "Killmaster." The trail out of the past is still hot. it begins with a ripe and willing Brazilian show-girl with mob connections, then leads through an ever increasing body count to a left-wing death squad and straight into the U.S. Embassy.

The killing has already begun. A Spanish reporter is murdered on the streets of Moscow. And before it's over, many more will die. Because now the prize is the trump card in the ultimate Russian power play: The Andropov File. Premier Andropov is dead. But his legacy lives on. The microfilmed file holds the buried secrets of the Soviet power brokers. For a Russian, control of the file means political power beyond imagination. For AXE and Nick Carter, its explosive contents could shatter the dark Kremlin walls. Agent N3's job is to steal the Andropov file, no matter what it takes, or who has to die.

Bangkok billionaire Robert Kangting has the cream of the diplomatic jet set in his pocket... a private army at his command... and suspicious ties with Chinese Communists. The CIA think they have him under control - until one of their probes backfires into a bloodbath. Now it's up to the Killmaster either to clear Kangting - or to catch him 'red-handed'. But going undercover with the billionaire's over-sexed daughter lands Agent N3 in the clutches of a Far East expert in high-tech torture!

The bloody trail of El Adwan, the Middle East's most savage assassin, leads straight to one of the west's richest men. As the body count soars, Nick Carter unravels the billionaire's twisted plan to save his faltering empire. It's a shocking scheme that, in the hands of El Adwan, could spell disaster for the international oil market. Now Nick must silence the desert assassin forever..or the world will pay the price!

A master thief cracks a safe in a Spanish villa and finds a prize beyond his wildest dreams. The secret blueprint of American intelligence operations in the Mediterranean. It's a treasure the spymaster of the Kremlin would risk everything to possess. soon gangsters, assassins, ad beautiful women are caught in a deadly manhunt that weaves a violent and bloody path from Rome to Madrid. From the back alley slums to the pleasure palaces of the mega rich, the body count mounts when the Kremlin unleashes maniacal executioner Tony Lucchi. But somebody is talking Lucchi, Nick Carter AXE's top agent. And it's only a matter of time before Nick faces the savage KGB assassin in a brutal fight to the finish.

Agent N3 Infiltrates An Arms Dealer's Fortress And Blasts His Way Out There's enough high caliber hardware stockpiled in monsoon soaked Rangoon to start a war. Or a revolution. And Sidney Chong is holding all the cards. He's blackmailing half of the Burmese government and using an elite society pf martial arts assassins to do his bidding. Now Nick Carter "Killmaster" has to stop him and time is ticking away. But how could Nick guess that his ace in the hole would be the beautiful and brainy Jane Camway? She has more degrees than a thermometer and is about to give him an education he'll never forget...

It began as a family squabble. But the family is one of India's richest and most powerful. Now, the fate of a nation hangs in the balance. A bloody revolution is just a heartbeat away as Agent N3 steps into a deadly billion dollar power play. But the first assassination, the game turns savage. From New Delhi to the teeming streets of Barcelona and down the dark corridors of the espionage underground lurks The Cobra, waiting for his chance to strike. The Cobra has killed many times and in many places. But to forever silence the legendary American agent, Nick Carter, would be the rarest of pleasures

International Playboy Rene Charmont masterminds the theft of a briefcase crammed with U.S. aerospace secrets worth a fortune. To celebrate his triumph, he throws the party of the year at his remote French chateau. The guests include millionaires, killers, Soviet spies, and some of the world's most beautiful women. Nick Carter, AXE top agent, doesn't need an invitation to tangle with Charmont and his KGB handlers. He crashes into high society with the help of a few friends the best thieves money can buy. It's going to be one hell of a party

General Dillon has ambition. He sees himself as a twentieth century Napoleon. Soon his mercenary army will invade Madagascar, overthrow the government, and set up a private kingdom. Nick Carter suspects the Comex Corporation is backing the coup. And as the clock ticks toward Dillon's invasion, Nick must take on an army of highly paid death merchants in an international maze of big business and double cross. In a race that ends in a maelstrom of blood politics and vengeance

Nick Carter needed a rest. A few weeks, a private yacht, the Mediterranean, and the beautiful Chandra Braxton. The perfect vacation. Perfect. Except for the unexpected abductions, and his holiday becomes a high stakes death race where politics, intrigue, and terror are the ultimate enemies. If he loses, he'll get all the rest he ever needs..in his own grave!

Hong Kong. A city crawling with power, money, drugs, murder, and worse. It's here in the bustling center of the Orient that the KGB hired the world's deadliest assassin for a sabotage mission which threatens to jeopardize world peace. And it's here in this blood drenched underworld that Nick Carter takes on his deadliest assignment. To intercept this Soviet freelancer known as Scorpio. Or get stung in the process.....

A Soviet agent has defected and sparked a deadly scavenger hunt through the capitals of Europe. The players: Nick Carter versus the Soviets The clues: A bloody trail of missing persons and broken bodies. The prize: A master list of superspies who have been infiltrated the US disguised as Soviet dissidents. A list that could blow the Soviet spy network sky high! Nick's orders are to get the list, at all costs. It's the most dangerous game he has ever played. A game where the only rule is kill or be killed and the only consolation prize is a painless death

Somewhere in the tumultuous streets of Singapore, two agents have been cornered by the cities most notorious hit men. and it's up th Nick Carter and his action hungry partner, a luscious CIA bombshell, to get them out alive. But AXE Agent N3 takes on more than he bargained for fighting Fat Chen, leader of the deadliest espionage drug ring in the East. Chen's got high tech weapon power at his command, and Quang, a Soviet pawn, at his side. The ultimate test stands before Nick. Can he infiltrate Chen's deadly circle, and survive a living hell?

The KGB has created a new breed of super spy. Abducted American children are subjected to years of brutal brainwashing and then returned to the United States as an elite force of assassins. Indistinguishable from ordinary citizens, it was a perfect plan, until one of them tried to kill Nick Carter. Now AXE's own ultra spy is out to turn the bloody tables. Nick's assignment is to impersonate a top KGB official and infiltrate the training facility where children are tuned into cold blooded killers. For anyone else, it would be a suicide mission. For Nick Carter, it's just a game. A game of Russian roulette.

N3's ultimate mission A no holds barred battle With the Asian mastermind of death Bombings, Assassinations, Kidnapping, Blackmail A new wave of terrorism threatens to drown the world. The Red Dragons are a secret society within the Chinese army, led by the hard line fanatic Dr. Sim. Their motive is to discredit the Chinese government and destroy the delicate process of democratization. Chinese intelligence must eliminate Sim and his cadre of killers. But any connection to the deadly operation could detonate an explosive diplomatic situation. And shatter international relation. The solution is to borrow AXE's top agent, Nick Carter and use him to do the dirty work. And then return him...if he survives.