http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Car... The house pseudonym Nick Carter includes Michael Avallone aka Valerie Moolman et al, Jim Bowser, Nicholas Browne, Lew Louderback, Douglas Marland, Arnold Marmor, Jon Messman, Craig Nova, William Odell, William L. Rhodes, Martin Cruz Smith, George Snyder, Manning Lee Stokes
A novel behind the glamor-mask of international intelligence...pitting young Nick Carter against the world's most vicious spy and an archenemy, Mr Judas.
Sex and savagery are the facts of life for every spy, and to survive, he'd better be good at both...
After the events described in Run, Spy, Run, Carter is recuperating at home in New York from another assignment, when he is assigned to be the personal bodyguard for Nikita Khrushchev during the Soviet Premier’s attendance at the opening session of the United Nations. Carter foils two separate assassination attempts on Khrushchev. AXE and its Soviet counterpart (known here as SIN) believe the assassinations are linked to communist Chinese efforts to destabilize relations between the USSR and USA. Nick is paired with a Russian agent to enter The Forbidden City of China, and destroy a terrorist gang known as CLAW.
A new novel from the intimate world of espionage agents at work ... and play
The story takes place in January 1964. After the events described in "The China Doll", six AXE agents based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, have been found mutilated and murdered in a short space of time. Nick Carter accompanied by fellow agent Rosalind Adler are sent to investigate.
The story takes place in March 1964. The newly independent west African country of the Republic of Nyanga is on the verge of civil war. The country is closely allied to the USSR. The USSR embassy in Nyanga has been bombed and its foreign nationals are being harassed on the streets. The USSR blames the USA for orchestrating the bombing and harassment despite the fact that the US embassy itself has been bombed. Nick Carter is sent to Nyanga posing as a special US ambassador to investigate the true source of the destabilization efforts against Nyanga and its allies.
The story is set in May 1964. Nick Carter is on the trail of Judas – the master spy first encountered in Run, Spy, Run. Posing as an investigative journalist for a West German tabloid newspaper, Carter tracks Judas to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he is living among the expatriate German community under the alias Hugo Bronson. Carter meets an informant at his home who reveals that Bronson is actually Martin Bormann, one of Adolf Hitler's closest aides and who was thought to have escaped from Germany at the end of World War II.
"Little Paris" where love-talk is wire-tapped and each caress can lead to sudden mayhem.
Claire La Farge, a widow of a French intelligence officer, who lives in a large rice and tea plantation in North Vietnam receives a coded message from a former associate of her husband. She sends her trusted servant, Saito, to Saigon to place an advert in the personal column of the Times of Vietnam hoping to contact former colleagues of her late husband. Raoul Dupre, a former French intelligence officer and businessman in Saigon, reads the ad and makes contact with AXE. Nick Carter is sent to Saigon with orders to help Raoul Dupre contact Claire La Farge.
The doomsday weapon in Cuban hands threatens to explode World War III
AXE agent, David Trainor posing as a returning refugee, is killed after attempting to sail from Florida to Cuba. As he was dying, he managed to daub the word 'star' on the floor in his own blood. Nick Carter is sent to investigate.
Moscow is the hot-spot for the "Axe" group's most explosive action
The story takes place in summer 1965. An American agent in Moscow crashes into the huge GUM department store in Red Square, Moscow. His body is full of deadly poison, and his briefcase contains verbatim transcripts of top secret meetings held in Russian and Chinese Government offices and embassies around the world. The Russians accuse the US of stealing official secrets and passing them to the Chinese to destabilize USSR-China relations. The Russians agree to let AXE investigate the security leak in Moscow.
The story is set in September 1965. Carter is in Geneva, Switzerland on Mission Tiger – a plan to steal a large gold and ruby statue of a tiger from Hermann Göring’s private Swiss bank vault. Former SS General Max Rader and Imperial Japanese Army Colonel Shikoku Hondo are also on their way to steal the tiger.
The story is set in May 1965. Several Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) agents have been murdered in Turkey. Carter attends a secret meeting in which a top US Government official orders him to assassinate four individuals believed to be involved in protecting an international heroin processing and distribution network based in Turkey. Carter accepts the mission and makes his way to Istanbul posing as a crewman on a cargo freighter.
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.
Weapon of Night brings three foreign agents to America to help Night Carter battle a diabolical plot by Nick's arch enemy Mr Judas. The blackout of November 1965 set 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.
Unless Nick Carter could prevent it, the holy war brewing in India would set up the turbulent East for a Red Chinese takeover. But first, Killmaster had to destroy the deadly double who matched him in every skill.
Wang-wei, a Chinese spymaster, attends a meeting with Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai where he reveals a secret weapon – an American soldier captured during the Korean War who has been held captive, surgically altered and brainwashed into believing he is Nick Carter – a US secret agent.
The double is to attempt to destabilize the ceasefire between India and Pakistan and draw the real Nick Carter into the area where he can be eliminated.
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.
Killmaster on the track of a deranged Nazi who is the living instrument for revenge and destruction in the Middle East.
A minor Chinese diplomat is murdered in The Hague. Before his death he passes coded secret material to the American Government. Meanwhile, in Beijing, former Nazi Gunter Gerhardt, receives final instructions on Chinese communist plans to foment war in the Middle East. Gerhardt flies immediately to Syria to organize cross-border armed raids into Israel and Jordan.
In Washington, D.C., the Chinese diplomat’s secret message is decoded confirming Gerhardt’s plans. AXE collaborates with Israeli intelligence, Shin Bet, to track down Gerhardt and stop him.
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.
The new President of the United States is marked for assassination, and Killmaster races against time and terror to prevent a nightmare from happening.
Communist China has recently exported $1 billion worth of gold to fund a secret operation and Chinese troops are massing on their border with North Vietnam. Special Branch and MI5 alert AXE to the fact that Sir Malcolm Drake has recently visited Hanoi and has secretly met senior Chinese Government officials in Beijing.