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Matt Helm, code name Eric, has been recently reactivated as an operative for a secret American government organization after 15 years as a sedentary photographer and family man in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In his first assignment after returning to the service, he is sent to Sweden to eliminate Caselius, a long-time enemy agent. In order to do so, he must leave a trail of bodies in his wake.
2) The Removers
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A year after having been reactivated, Matt Helm receives a message from his ex-wife, asking for his aid. The threat is an enemy agent named Martel, disguised as a mob hitman. To protect his family, Helm must "remove" the threat before his own children pay the ultimate price.
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Helm is sent to extract a female agent working as a stripper in a bar in Mexico. When she is killed before Helm can complete his mission to extract her, he finds himself teamed up with the woman's sister as he fights to save the lives of a group of scientists and American officials. Perhaps the most famous of the titles, due to the Dean Martin film of the same name, but where the movies were tongue-in-cheek, the novels are breathtakingly brutal.
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Matt Helm, one-time special agent for the American government during the Second World War, has left behind his violent past to raise a family in Santa Fe, New Mexico. When a former colleague turns rogue and kidnaps his daughter, Helm is forced to return to his former life as a deadly and relentless assassin.
Originally released in the era of the James Bond novels, these novels have been out of print and unavailable for almost 20 years. They were...
Originally released in the era of the James Bond novels, these novels have been out of print and unavailable for almost 20 years. They were...
5) The Ravagers
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It was not a peaceful way to die, but there was nothing Matt Helm could do for his fellow agent. He had found him in a Canadian motel room, his once-handsome face eaten away, corroded by acid. Scratch one agent. The women wouldn’t be lining up for him now. But it created further problems. The most likely culprit was a woman Helm had orders to protect - no matter what the cost.
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Matt Helm finds himself in Hawaii, trying to unhatch a plot of unrivalled viciousness. When an agent turns bad, nobody’s business is private anymore, and when that agent decides to start a war, someone has to finish him—fast. Between the rogue agent and the stranger who insists she is his sister-in-law, this won’t be a relaxing Pacific holiday.
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"I can't kill you. If I do, Mac will send out the executioners, the termination squads …"
When the big man in Washington assigned Matt Helm to ride shotgun on a top-secret mission in Norway, Helm wanted to know why. But this was a need-to-know deal, at least until his partner-a woman posing as his mistress-was killed. Now Helm is mad-mad enough to blow the operation sky high.
"Helm is a genuinely tough and tough-minded protagonist…your reading...
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Matt Helm is unexpectedly rich, and he doesn't like it. Twenty thousand mysterious dollars appear in his bank account, but this is no time for celebration. Another secret agent with an unexplained surplus is murdered, and Helm figures he better work out who his "benefactor" is before he becomes the next target.
"Helm is a genuinely tough and tough-minded protagonist...your reading diet lacks essential vitamins if you overlook him."
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Professional assassin and counteragent Matt Helm has been given a distasteful assignment. He is to disguise himself as gangster Jimmy "the Lash" Petroni and assault a fellow agent in order to help establish her cover in a top secret operation. But things don't quite go according to plan, and now Helm must take her place on a dangerous mission. Alone in Chesapeake Bay, pursued by his own government, Helm must carry out an assassination—before
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A quiet mission of assassination is no sweat for legendary agent Matt Helm-until a shapely foreign agent he never got around to finishing off lures him into a strange trek in the wilds of northern Mexico. And when a Russian missile is smuggled out of Cuba, it falls into the hands of a political fanatic much too close to home.Originally released in the era of the James Bond novels, the Matt Helm novels were considered grittier and more realistic than...
11) The Terrorizers
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The survivor of a plane crash wakes up in a hospital in Canada, his memory a blank. Then in walks Kitty, a gorgeous woman, who tells him that he is Paul Madden, a photographer and her fiancé. Not bad. Except that a man on the phone keeps calling him Matt Helm.
Things don't add up. This can only mean trouble ...
12) The Interlopers
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This time Mac has gone too far. For Helm to impersonate a Communist courier to whom he bears no resemblance is suicide-and that isn't all. Someone wants to get the layout of the Alaskan Northwest Coastal Defense System, but they aren't the goodies or the baddies. So who the hell are they? And who is the mysterious Holz that Helm is meant to kill?
13) The Poisoners
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When Matt Helm is dispatched to Los Angeles to investigate the shooting of an agent, it wasn't just an assignment-it was personal. To get the answers he wants means run-ins with two-bit hoods, a trio of beautiful women, a bunch of drug traffickers, and his old friend Mr. Soo, whose government has ideas about polluting America to death.
14) The Detonators
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A prim young lady needs a favor: help her father beat a bum drug rap. But when Dad's boat detonates outside Miami Harbor, Matt discovers that young Amy isn't as innocent as she looks. Lured to the Bahamas, he will discover an unlikely pack of fanatics hatching an explosive plan, and that daddy's little girl is surprisingly deadly.
"Helm is a genuinely tough and tough-minded protagonist…Your reading diet lacks essential vitamins if you overlook...
15) The Vanishers
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People are vanishing without a trace. And the disappearances are getting closer to home-the next likely target is Mac, Matt Helm's shrewd old boss. To get to the bottom of the mystery, Helm follows two beguiling and treacherous women, who lead him all the way to his ancestral home-Scandinavia. With a coup from within the agency, and a terrorist threat from without, it's clear that nobody can be trusted.
16) The Shadowers
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In order to foil a mass assassination plot, Matt Helm must undertake his most dangerous mission yet: matrimony. An agent like Helm might be a nice man to live with for a while, but he's not the kind of guy a woman would marry-unless she has to in order to maintain an ingenious cover. The man whose daily bread is violence takes a most unlikely bride-just to ensure death doesn't part them.
17) The Intimidators
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It was a double mission this time: First, to terminate a top-notch enemy agent. Second, to locate the missing fiancee of a Texas oil millionaire, lost in the Bermuda Triangle. Somehow these two cases were connected, but it wasn't clear how until more high-profile types disappeared. They weren't dead, just part of a deadly little game ...
18) The Menacers
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Matt Helm is puzzled. He's been sent to Mexico to investigate the sighting of a flying saucer, but Helm doesn't believe in little green men. Then his Russian opposite number is shot in her hotel, but who did it? And why are the Mexican cops acting so tough? Time to track down the redhead who called in the sighting and get to the bottom of the case.
19) The Intriguers
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Matt Helm is on vacation in Mexico with nothing on his mind except fishing, when some joker tries to shoot him in the back. Naturally, it was no accident-when secret agents get shot at, it never is. So Helm has to go back to work. At least there's a bonus in the form of his boss's beautiful daughter, a playmate in peril.
20) The Devastators
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The Devastators is the ninth installment in Donald Hamilton's iconic and thrilling Matt Helm series, which has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide.On a bleak and lonely heath in northern Scotland, the body of an agent sent to complete a tricky mission is recovered. He had died of bubonic plague. It's up to Matt Helm to take it from there. Somewhere among the desolate Scottish moors is a half-crazed scientific genius who could devastate...