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Macao by Manning Lee Stokes

Macao

by Manning Lee Stokes

A Savage Beauty Holds The Key To World Survival

A Time For Death

• The owner of a notorious London sex club is found butchered, his body hacked to pieces....
• Portugal's top agent is gunned down in broad daylight, on a crowded street...…
• A two-bit P.I. from Brooklyn is knifed in the heart, after meddling unwittingly in international espionage....

George Gross Cover

All they had in common was the Princess da Gama, the breathtakingly uniquely depraved creature, Nick Carter's partner in Macao. The Princess was a wild tormented beauty hunter on three continents. The Portuguese wanted to force her into living death. The Red Chinese wanted to turn her into a sex puppet, a helpless pawn in Chicom espionage. The U.S. desperately needed her help. She knew the man whose maniacal whim could start an international holocaust.

Bonus Cover

Printing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st Printing (A294X) February 1968

2nd Printing (A294X) 1969

3rd Printing (A294X) 1970

4th Printing (A920S) 1976

5th Printing (AN1099) 1972

6th Printing (AN1099) 1973

7th Printing (AN1099) 1974

Tandem Books/Universal Books

1st printing (T179) 1968

2nd Printing (426-12618-1) 1975

3rd Printing (426-12618-1) 1977

Charter Communications Inc

Charter Books

ISBN 441 51354-9

January 1981

The Chinese Paymaster by Nicholas Browne

The Chinese Paymaster

by Nicholas Browne

The Cold War Blazes Hot As Killmaster Hunts A Diabolically Clever Double Agent.

A Double Agent Sets Up America For Takeover

Three separate incidents in three different countries. The first incident occurs in a small Chinese village where an old scientist is executed. The next day the CIA learn they have lost one of its most valuable agents. The second incident occurs in the Laotian jungle where an American officer and his guerrilla band are bombed by Chinese planes. An important American operation is sabotaged. The last incident occurs in an posh NYC bar. Thailand's UN delegate is assassinated. Somebody sprays cyanide into the diplomats face hours before he was to vote against China. 

All three incidents were linked to a Red Chinese paymaster. Person, male or female, was unknown. The method of operation was within the US intelligence network. It was determined the paymaster was on a tans-Atlantic jet on the first lap of a charter flight around the world. It was Nick's mission to find the paymaster among the plane's passengers. But somebody has betrayed Nick and the Chinese move in for the kill long before he has boarded the plane.

Bonus Cover

Printing History

Written by Nicholas Browne

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st Printing (A239X) July 1967

2nd Printing (A627X) 1970

3rd Printing (A940S) 1972

4th Printing (AQ1592) 1976

Tandem Books

1st printing (T138) 1967

2nd Printing (426-6496-8) 1972 

3rd Printing (426-17427-5) December 1972

4th Printing (426-17427-5) 1978

The Devil's Cockpit by Manning Lee Stokes

The Devil's Cockpit

by Manning Lee Stokes

Their Movies Are Hardcore And Their Methods Obscene!

The Blue Moon Film Company

Mona McCall: A beautiful ex-Hollywood star and sex darling of the Western World was lending her fame and figure to a Red Chinese pornographic propaganda mill and was lashing America's reputation to a burning stake.

Michael Blackstone: American director and communist. He willingly betrayed his homeland and spilled coils of vileness from his films.

Pamela Martin: English, has the makings for a very deadly spy except that she has been picked for pornographic stardom or else.

Somewhere in the dark streets of Budapest, a pornographic mill was churning out films that proclaimed the hideous decadence of American Imperialism. This assignment takes Nick Carter on a steamy tour of Eastern Europe in search of Blackstone and Mona McCall. Ms Martin is his would be assistant, a half hustler, half spy.

Bonus Cover

Printing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st Printing (A 229F ) 1967

2nd Printing (A 229F) 1968

Tandem Books

1st Printing (T138) 1967

2nd Printing (426 6488 7) 19732

Charter Communications Inc

Charter Books

ISBN 441 14298 

1979

Double Identity by Manning Lee Stokes

Double Identity

by Manning Lee Stokes

Killmaster Hunts His Deadly Double In Tibet

Double Cross

The message over the CIA hotline sent AXE into an uproar. CIA's top man in Tibet had been killed. His dying words had identified his assassin "Nick Carter!" Within hours the real Nick Carter had jumped into Tibet to pick up the trail of his mysterious double. In India the path led through streets thronged with those seeking the fortune offered in reward for Nick's arrest, and on to the remote Pakistani border region where he found the fuse, which once ignited in India, would set off a holocaust that would destroy all the nations of the East

Bonus Cover

Printing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes (19411-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st Printing (A 229F ) 1967

2nd Printing (A 923S) 1972

Tandem Books

1st Printing (T243) 1968

2nd Printing (426 7042 9) 1973

Charter Communications Inc

Charter Books

Charter Special Bonus Edition (W/ Strike Of The Hawk) January 1980

The Golden Serpent by Manning Lee Stokes

The Golden Serpent

by Manning Lee Stokes

A master plot to flood the U.S. economy with millions of counterfeit money

Armed with only a suicide pill, Nick Carter slips south of the border on a mission to stop the ruin of America's economy by a clever diabolical Chinese plot.

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

Add a Chinese paper factory exporting a fine engraver's five dollar portrait of Abe Lincoln.

Stir with a countess who's made a fortune in cosmetics and is running a strange little kingdom deep in the Mexican jungle.

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

Suddenly the meeting between the CIA and Mr Hawk, the ingredients are mixed together into a little pill handed to Nick Carter. The instructions were very clear, straighten things out or swallow the deadly pill.

Printing History

 Written by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st Printing (A 216F ) 1967

2nd Printing (A 386X) 1968

3rd Printing (A 642X) 1970

4th Printing (A 929S) 1972

5th Printing (AN 1102) 1973

6th Printing (AN 1102) 1974

Grenada Publishing Limited

Mayflower Books

Mayflower Printing (2987-8) 1967

Mayflower Reprint (583 11411 3 2) 1969

Mayflower Reprint (583 11411 3 2) 1970 (2)

Mayflower Reprint (583 11411 3 3) 1974

Charter Communications Inc

Charter Books

ISBN 441 29736-6 

August 1979

The Weapon Of Night by Valerie Moolman

The Weapon Of Night

by Valerie Moolman

N3 Joins Forces With Three Foreign To Save America From Annihilation.

Blackouts!

The eight state blackout of November 1965 had provided a neat scenario for nasty minds. A nation that was totally electrified could be rendered totally helpless. A mere inconvenience could be intensified into a weapon....the weapon of night.

Now was the time for more blackouts, the flashing lights in the sky, the clouds of stinging fog, the public bewilderment rising to mass hysteria. While the destroyers crept from their holes and total annihilation of the people drew nearer and nearer......

Against this crawling espionage the man from AXE joined the three foreign agents to form a quartet of spies one will never forget. They were the only force between the American people and complete destruction. 

Bonus Covers

Printing History

Written by Valerie Moolman

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st Printing (A215F) 1967

2nd Printing (A 385X) 1968

3rd Printing (A 641X) 1970

4th & 5th Printing (AN 1094) 1972, 1974

Grenada Publishing Limited

Mayflower Books

ISBN 583 11327

1968, 1970, 1970, 1974

Charter Communications Inc

Charter Books

ISBN 441 87635

August 1979

Danger Key by Lew Louderback

Danger Key

by Lew Louderback

The CIA Man Had Bungled Badly

Ralph Benson had made the mistake of contacting his agents openly. He had been on the job too long, and liquor and loss of nerve had caused him to take some incredibly foolish chances. He had been fingered for execution by CLAW, the Chinese Communist secret organization that was smuggling its top agents into Florida under the cover of an influx of Cuban refugees. But Ralph Benson was already dead. A fatal connection with a beautiful woman in a white convertible had taken care of that. Now Nick Carter had been ordered to replace Benson. And Nick would have to go on being a human target named Ralph Benson, a fumbling, bumbling, has been operative, too drunk, sodden and scared to be able to protect himself!

Printing History

Written by Lew Louderback

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Conde Nast Publications, Inc

Award/Tandem Books

1st Printing (A183F) 1966

2nd Printing (A383X) 1968

3rd Printing (A491X) 1969

4th Printing (A491X)  1970

5th Printing (AN1177) 1973

First Tandem Printing 1968

Tandem Reprint (4260 7034 8) 1973

Dragon Flame by Manning Lee Stokes

Dragon Flame

by Manning Lee Stokes

The Fine Art of General Smuggling

The situation was grave. The Chinese had the border sealed up so tight that a fly could not slip through. On the Hong Kong side the vicious group, Tiger Tong, waited and ready to kill anyone who attempted the Generals rescue. The General was badly wounded and was holed up in a temple not a mile from a thousand Chinese troops. Only a fool would try to cross the border and rescue the General. But the fool was none other than Nick Carter of AXE.

Printing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Conde Nast Publications, Inc

Award/Tandem Books

1st Printing (A173F) May 1966

2nd Printing (A311X) January 1968

3rd Printing (A311X)1969

4th Printing (A311X) 1970

First Tandem Printing 1968

Tandem Reprint (4260 7026 7) 1973