Killmaster Books In Order
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Run, Spy, Run | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The China Doll | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Checkmate in Rio | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Safari for Spies | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fraulein Spy | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Saigon | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Bullet for Fidel | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 13th Spy | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eyes of the Tiger | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Istanbul | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Web of Spies | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Spy Castle | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Terrible Ones | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dragon Flame | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hanoi | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Danger Key | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Operation Starvation | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mind Poisoners | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Weapon Of Night | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Golden Serpent | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mission to Venice | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Double Identity | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Devil's Cockpit | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Chinese Paymaster | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seven Against Greece | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Korean Tiger | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Assignment Israel | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Red Guard | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The filthy five | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bright Blue Death | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Macao | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Operation Moon Rocket | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Judas Spy | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hood of Death | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Amsterdam | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Temple of Fear | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fourteen Seconds to Hell | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Defector | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Carnival for Killing | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rhodesia | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Red Rays | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Peking: The Tulip affair | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Amazon | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sea Trap | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Berlin | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cobra Kill | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Human Time Bomb | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Living Death | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Operation Che Guevara | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Doomsday Formula | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Operation Snake | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Casbah Killers | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Arab Plague / Slavemaster | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Red Rebellion | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Executioners | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Death | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mind Killers | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Time Clock of Death | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cambodia | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Death Strain | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jewel of Doom | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Moscow | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ice Bomb Zero | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mark of Cosa Nostra | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cairo Mafia / Cairo | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Inca Death Squad | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Assault on England | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Omega Terror | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Code Name: Werewolf | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Strike Force Terror | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Agent Counter-agent | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hour of the Wolf | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Our Agent in Rome Is Missing | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kremlin File | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Spanish Connection | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Death's Head Conspiracy | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Peking Dossier | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Target: Doomsday Island | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night of the Avenger | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Butcher of Belgrade | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Assassination Brigade | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Liquidator, The | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Devil's Dozen | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ice-Trap Terror | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Assassin Code Name Vulture | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Stolen Pay Train, | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Massacre in Milan | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Vatican Vendetta | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sign of the Cobra | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Man Who Sold Death | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The N3 Conspiracy | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beirut Incident | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death of the Falcon | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Aztec Avenger | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Code | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Jerusalem File | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Counterfeit Agent | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Six Bloody Summer Days | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Katmandu Contract | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Z Document | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dr. Death | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ultimate Code | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Assignment Intercept | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Green Wolf Connection | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fanatics of Al Asad | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Snake Flag Conspiracy | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Turncoat | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sign of the Prayer Shawl | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Vulcan Disaster | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A High Yield In Death | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nichovev Plot, The | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Triple Cross | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gallagher Plot | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Plot for the Fourth Reich | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Message | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The List | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Under the Wall | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ebony Cross | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deadly Doubles | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Race of Death | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Trouble in Paradise | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pamplona Affair | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Doomsday Spore | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Revenge of the Generals | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Asian Mantrap | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thunderstrike In Syria | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Redolmo Affair | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Jamaican Exchange | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tropical Deathpact | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pemex Chart | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hawaii | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Satan Trap | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Reich Four | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Nowhere Weapon | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Strike of the Hawk | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Day of the Dingo | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tarantula Strike | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ten Times Dynamite | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eighth Card Stud | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Suicide Seat | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Mission: Havana | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Coyote Connection | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The G Man | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Society of Nine | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Golden Bull | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dubrovnik Massacre | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Solar Menace | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Strontium Code | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pleasure Island | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cauldron of Hell | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Parisian Affair | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Turkish Bloodbath | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chessmaster | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Samurai | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Puppet Master | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dominican Affair | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Damocles Threat | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Earth Shaker | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Treason Game | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deathlight | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Israeli Connection | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Norwegian Typhoon | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hunter | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Operation McMurdo Sound | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Appointment in Haiphong | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Retreat for Death | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mendoza Manuscript | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Death Star Affair | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor DNA | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Typhoon Ray | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Christmas Kill | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Greek Summit | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Outback Ghosts | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hide and Go Die | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Kali Death Cult | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Operation Vendetta | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Yukon Target | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Death Dealer | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Istanbul Decision | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Decoy Hit | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Earthfire North | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Budapest Run | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Caribbean Coup | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Algarve Affair | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Zero-Hour Strike Force | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Operation Sharkbite | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Island | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night of the Warheads | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Day of the Mahdi | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Assignment: Rio | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Hand Play | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Kremlin Kill | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mayan Connection | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
San Juan Inferno | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Circle of Scorpions | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Blue Ice Affair | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Macao Massacre | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pursuit of the Eagle | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Vengeance Game | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Last Flight to Moscow | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Normandy Code | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
White Death | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Assassin Convention | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood of the Scimitar | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Execution Exchange | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tarlov Cipher | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Target Red Star | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Killing Ground | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Berlin Target | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mercenary Mountain | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood Ultimatum | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cyclops Conspiracy | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tunnel for Traitors | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Samurai Kill | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Terror Times Two | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Orbit | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Slaughter Day | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Master Assassin | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Operation Petrograd | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crossfire Red | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood of the Falcon | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Squad | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Terror Code | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Holy War | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood Raid | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
East of Hell | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Killing Games | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Terms of Vengeance | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pressure Point | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night of the Condor | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Poseidon Target | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Andropov File | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dragonfire | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bloodtrail to Mecca | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deathstrike | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lethal Prey | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Spykiller | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bolivian Heat | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Rangoon Man | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Code Name Cobra | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Afghan Intercept | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Countdown to Armageddon | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Sea Bloodbath | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Deadly Diva | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Invitation to Death | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Day of the Assassin | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Korean Kill | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Middle East Massacre | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sanction to Slaughter | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Holiday in Hell | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Law of the Lion | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hong Kong Hit | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deep Sea Death | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Arms of Vengeance | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hell-Bound Express | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isle of Blood | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Singapore Sling | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ruby Red Death | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Arctic Abduction | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dragon Slay | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Killmaster is a series of novels written by several authors who write under the pseudonym Nick Carter. Between 1964 and 1990, the series of novels were published like baseball cards with at least 261 titles in print by 1991. The first novel in the series was “Run, Spy, Run” that was first published in February 1964 and featured the lead protagonist Nick Carter. The Nick Carter character was not a new character as he was an update of a pulp fiction character that first appeared in a comic in 1886. With the first novel in the series flying off the shelves, the authors of the series turned prolific, publishing hundreds of novels in the ever more popular series. Even as no actual author is credited with the writing of the series, the novels are believed to have been written by Martin Cruz Smith, David Hagberg, Robert J. Randisi, Gayle Lynds, Dennis Lynds, Mnning Lee, Valerie Moolman, and Michael Avallone among several others. The Nick Carter series of novels were created to cash in on the James Bond phenomenon that was taking over the movies hence the creation of Nick Carter as a man’s man. With 261 titles in print, the Killmaster series of novels sold over 30 million copies by the time it wrapped up in 1991. The series has a fair amount of variation in quality and style though the quality is fairly similar, even as they are written by different authors. Even so the novels have some differences including some novels in which Carter is portrayed as a shoot first hero as opposed to the contemplative agent, and first person narration versus third person.
Nick Carter is described as a lean, tall, and handsome man with wide-set steel-gray eyes that speak to danger and a magnificent muscled body. He has dark thick hair, a firm cleft chin, laugh lines around the eyes, a firm straight mouth and a hard face. On the inside of his right lower arm is the perfect AXE agent ID – a small tattoo of an axe. He also has several battle scars including a shrapnel scar on the shoulder and a knife scar on the thigh. Nick is an avid yoga practitioner doing his meditations for at least 15 minutes a day. He also has a prodigious talent for learning the languages and is fluent in over ten languages and basic skills in half a dozen others. Carter’s knowledge of the languages comes in handy, particularly in the early titles when he adopts several disguises executing his missions around the world. Nick Carter prefers to use a triad of weapons during his missions, all of which have their unique histories and names. A stripped down German Luger he calls Wilhelmina is his main weapon and is a throwback from his World War II combat days. The Benvenuto Cellini made 4-century-old knife he calls Hugo is the second member of the triad that he wears on his wrist. The last weapon in his repertoire is an egg-shaped device that is a poison bomb named Pierre, which he would activate with a simple twist. Nick works for the agency AXE a more secretive and smaller agency than the CIA, in being a trouble shooting and assassination arm of the US secret services.
The Killmaster series of novels opens to the lead protagonist waking up from an injury or libidinal stupor to respond to a call from his boss at AXE – nicknamed Hawk. His personal assistants are Chinese or Korean children he adopted in his previous missions to those countries. After getting a debrief from his boss, he goes deep undercover in a different country with an assumed identity. He will then make an ally from the most unexpected demographic such as women in uniform, expatriate Japanese, or Cold War Russians. His missions are always full of adverb-laden sex and torture from a communist mastermind that typically culminates in a clever escape that he orchestrates using his beloved Luger pistol, Wilhelmina. He will then perform a lot of yoga, which he describes as one excruciating experience that helps him develop endurance. He will typically stretch and hold his breath for five minutes or more, which is quite some record for an outdoorsy undercover man. His ambiguous ally will then die during one of his successful escapes, and he will have more sex as a kind of mourning for her. The novel will then end with Carter having sex or thinking about having sex with his most recent conquest. His typical sexual escapades are some racy savage and ravage fantasies that see him for the most part bed the local women, from wherever his mission will take him.
“Run, Spy, Run”, the first novel of the Killmaster series of novels is arguably the most James Bond inspired novel series. Set in 1963, it introduces Nick Carter who gets an anonymous letter while relaxing after coming back from a successful mission. On board the plane, he meets a minor diplomat who upon getting off the plane is blow to bits by a plane that had been hidden in his artificial hand. He is just one of a series of diplomats killed in similar explosions to be replaced by communist sympathizers. Meanwhile, Carter is paired up with Julia Byron and the two are assigned to protect Lyle Harcourt, the American ambassador to the UN. Investigating a foiled assassination attempt on the ambassador, they find that the American ambassador has been unusually interested in the case heightening their suspicions. But before they can bust the man, they are knocked out and sent to meet Mr. Judas, who intends to torture and murder them. Will they get out of this alive and will they thwart Mr. Judas’s plans.
“The China Doll”, the second novel in the series is a series about the ultimate elements of the spy that for Carter include savagery and sex. After the events of the first novel in the series, Nick has just come back to New York from where he hopes he can relax and unwind from a taxing assignment. He is now assigned to one of the most critical assignments in the country – he is to be the personal bodyguard of the Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushev, when the Russian leader visits the United States for the United Nations opening ceremony. As expected, it is not an easy assignment and Nick Carter foils two assassination attempts on the Russian premier. For the Soviet intelligence and their American counterparts, the most likely suspects in the assassinations are the Chinese. The Chinese have for some time been suspected of trying to destabilize relations between the United States and the USSR. Partnered up with a Russian agent, Nick Carter now has to deal with one of the most secretive and vicious terrorist gangs in the world.
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