The Caress of Conquest by Stephen Frances

Amateur agent John Gail on a vengeance mission:

Destroy an international narcotics ring after other 

British agents have been turned into junkies trying to sabotage it!

One dirty job after another....

It was bad enough that John Gail could only launch this mission with the permission of the biggest and most deadly underworld boss in Britain. Gail also had to play ball with a giant network of narcotics smuggles and pass himself off as a navigator aboard a ship of murderers, perverts, and sadistic thugs. if his cover was blown, there would not be enough left of him to feed the sharks. So John Gail watched while Arab white slavers, his employer's "business partners." And he looked the other way when a lovely young agent was cruelly tortured and shot full of deadly drugs. Thousands of lives were at stake and the whole operation depends on John Gail keeping his cool, until it was the right time to strike.

Printing History

Written by Stephen D Frances

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp.

Universal Award House Inc

Award Books

A764S (1968)

The Master by Carter Brown

And The Chase Was on.....

Signet Photo Cover

Vampires, werewolves, and a delectable doll named Chastity were the only tenants in the spine-chilling mansion of old man Chase, neck bitter extraordinaire in the heyday of horror films. And when Rick Holman came to call, all of them seemed to be out for his neck.

Horwitz Photo Cover

So when Harold Chase hired Rick to track down a dizzy blonde with an occult hangup, it was not surprising that every night crawler in town was soon howling and flapping on his tail. And when that happens, what is a fellow to do but hide in the closest and pull the corpses in after him?

Printing History

Horwitz Publications Inc
Numbered Series #169
ISBN 7255 0214 (1973)

New American Library
Signet Books
 T5363 (February 1973)

The Damocles Threat by David Hagberg

Monaco becomes a mad circus as eleven top agents compete against one another for a powerful formula.

George Gross Cover

The Damocles Threat

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!

Printing History

Written by David Hagberg

Charter Books

441 13573

March 1982

In Garde We Trust by Jerry LaPlante

Chameleon #2

When Vance Garde, the mild mannered, scientific engineering genius and his sexy assistant Ballou discover that religious cult leader Sol Luna is using brainwashing as a means to ultimately control the world, it get him very angry. And when Vance gets mad, watch out. He changes into the ruthless, deadly vindicator known as the Chameleon.

He infiltrated the cult and finds that Luna is employing low frequency radio waves to reinforce evil human behavior. But no one can outmaneuver Garde. With his unique and innovative technology, he is a one man army hell bent on revenge. He is out to eliminate the enemy, no matter what the cost.

Printing History

Kensington Publishing Corp

Zebra Books

September 1979

ISBN 89083 513

The Ambushers by Donald Hamilton

Assassination and terror in Central America.

Call in Matt Helm.....

Mission #6

A quiet mission of assassination is no sweat for Matt Helm. Until the man whose special talent is killing suddenly has to play God to a beautiful, beat-up girl, tortured half out of her mind on the Costa Verde jungle. Until a shapely foreign agent he never got around to killing off lures him into a strange trek in the wilds of Northern Mexico. Until a Russian missile smuggled out of Cuba falls into the hands of a political fanatic...very, very close to home!

Printing History

Copyright  1963

Fawcett Gold Medal

First Printing 

September 1963

d1618 June 1966 ($0.50)

T2900 ($0.75)

Ballantine Books

12841 July 1985 ($2.95)

Donna Died Laughing by Carter Brown

 Donna Died Laughing

David Franklin Cover Photograph

Drew Summers had a quiet, uncluttered life as a theatrical producer and he wondered  it to stay that way. Then The Mostest alias Angela Angelic, hit him with a typhoon. Then somebody got murdered and a couple of thugs beat him up. So Drew bought a gun to be ready for the next time. Drew then bought himself a psychiatrist because his personality changes. 

"Yeah ,I'll say! I am the toughest private eye that ever spat in anybody's eye. When I move in they bury 'em standing up!"

His personality changed and changed......

"As secret agent working for Department X, my mission is quite clear, my dear girl! The solving of the murders is incidental to the unmasking of the beautiful Soviet spy, Olga Pulovsky!"

If it was not for one guy, Drew was another and if he was not him, he was somebody else? The murders? Heck! The three of Drew should not have any trouble solving them, should he?

Printing History

Horwitz Publications Inc

Numbered Series #29 (1956)

Reprinted by Demand Series #8 (June 1959)

 as Naurava kuolema

Valpas-Mainos  

Alavus Finland (1959)

as Trois Tetes Sous Le Meme Bonnet

Gallimard  

Paris France (1959, 1975)

The Puppet Master by David Hagberg

The Plan:

Kill the President of the United States.

The Assassin:

Nick Carter

George Gross Cover

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!

Printing History

Written by David Hagberg

Charter Books

441 69148

March 1982

Trivia

Charter Books did a promotion in March 1982 and published a total of seven Nick Carter Killmaster books.

Until Proven Guilty by J. A. Jance

A Seattle homicide cop learns that faith can be dangerous and can kill.

Suffer the little children 

The little girl was found with her pink nightgown twisted around her throat. She was only five. The women who came to the funeral and threw a single rose on the coffin was alive and beautiful. The kind of beautiful that Homicide Detective J. P. Beaumont could not resist. Before long, Beaumont was certain he had his man. But lurking in the dark corners of this bizarre case was not just a demented mind obsessed with murder. Not just a series of brutal killings about to happen. But secrets so deadly, so close to Beaumont's life, that even a street-tough cop could die guessing.

Printing History

Written by Judith Ann Jance

Avon Books

July 1985

 ISBN 380-38938-9

Trivia

1st J.P. Beaumont mystery

The Clown by Carter Brown

SEE! SEE! SEE!

SEE the dead clown bleed!

SEE the sadist whip his naked wife!

SEE the paranoid inventor and his magic machine!

SEE the hated business tycoon blow his brains out!

And more, much, much more!!

Signet Photo Cover

It was no wonder Lieutenant Al Wheeler felt like he was in a a circus freak show. From the moment he discovered the first butchered body he had suspects galore. There was Nina the nympho. Ludovic the lascivious. Alton the ugly. And Isobel the insatiable. And each one was a little crazier than the last. It was obviously a show in which everyone had an act to perform. And the star of the whole shebang, was death.

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Printing History

Horwitz Publications Inc

Numbered Series #168 (1973)

ISBN 7255 0212

Printed in Hong Kong by Peninsula Press LTD

New American Library

Signet Books

T5206 

December 1972

The Last Samurai by Bruce Algozin

His final wish:

To destroy the one true warrior equal to himself,

Nick Carter!

George Gross Cover

The Last Samurai

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!

Printing History

Written by Bruce Algozin

Charter Books

441 47183

February 1982