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Thursday, December 22, 2016

Death Of A Citizen by Donald Hamilton

My contribution for the month of December for the Crimes Of The Century over at Past Offences will the first Matt Helm adventure, Death Of A Citizen. Rich hosts this monthly event that features a different year in which us bloggers contributes a post about crime fiction book, film, TV, comics, or a short story. This month we are in 1960.

Death Of A Citizen

by Donald Hamilton

When danger strikes, who is the man to take control?

Matt Helm!

Name: Matthew Helm

Code Name: Eric

A citizen dies and a wartime special agent is reborn, as the girl with the code name of Tina walks into a cocktail party and 15 years of Matt Helm's complacent post-war life slips away. Suddenly the old automatics reactions take over and Matt is thrust back to the time when he had been a lethal young animal trained to kill. And she had been his partner.

After the war. After the carnage. After being labeled a lethal weapon. It was time for a little peace and quiet. Married life agrees with him.

Cover by John McDermott

Printing History

written by Donald Hamilton (1916-2006)

Fawcett Gold Medal World Library

February 1960

Ballantine Books

November 1984

March 1988

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

2014 USA Fiction Challange: Hawaii

The next stop in the 2014 USA Fiction Challenge is the beautiful state of Hawaii

The Betrayers

by Donald Hamilton

Matt Helm #10

In sunny Hawaii, a U.S. troopship is scheduled to blow sky high. It's time to call Matt Helm

Far out in the Pacific, among the sunny islands of Hawaii, a dark venomous plot was being engineered by one of the United States' own agents, an angel-faces man called the Monk, who had a special fondness for high explosive.

His target: An American troopship with three thousand U.S. soldiers scheduled to blow sky high. Unless Matt Helm could stop it. But first Matt had to trust the beautiful stranger who claimed to be his sister-in-law and insisted that his former "wife" had just willed him a million dollars..

Printing History
Written by Donald Hamilton (1916-2006)

Fawcett Publications Inc.

Fawcett Gold Medal Books

November 1966

d1736

18th printing
ISBN 449 14060

Ballantine Books

August 1986
ISBN 449 13036

Saturday, April 26, 2014

The Damagers by Donald Hamilton

This yacht's a magnet for murder

and it needs a skipper......

Calling Matt Helm

Cruising For a Killing

Take a gorgeous companion for a leisurely sail on a beautiful yacht. Sounds like easy duty for Matt Helm. Except that the last three captains of the yacht dies under mysterious circumstances The next time sharks circle the boat. Matt had better be ready, if he wants to stay alive. It's an assignment that will have Matt tangling with a crew of dangerous women. An Arab terror squad. And an elite organization of death dealing specialists, led by a suave psychopath with very personal reasons for wishing Matt serious harm.....

Printing History

Written by Donald Hamilton (1916-2006)

Copyright
1993

Random House, Inc
Ballantine Books
Fawcett Gold Medal Books

ISBN 449 14847

November 1993

Note
Matt Helm's final appearance.

Saturday, January 4, 2014

The Threateners by Donald Hamilton

An old flame.

A simple favor.

It's a mix that might get Matt Helm killed...

Double Threat

A ruthless South American drug lord has a plan to bring the united States to its knees. A group of renegade American agents has plans to smash the kingpin and his cartel, by any means necessary. Caught in the middle, Matt Helm's got to do double duty to stop them both. He's protecting a woman with information both sides would kill for and trying to keep himself alive while he's doing it. With his own government turned against him, Matt doesn't know whom he can trust. And when the cocaine cowboys ans the killer G-men start closing in, Matt knows he's bound to catch hell no matter which way he turns.

Printing History

Written by Donald Hamilton (1916-2006)

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Thursday, December 19, 2013

The Frighteners by Donald Hamilton

A beautiful young bride,

illegal arms,

and a man called Saturday mean trouble for Matt Helm

Blood Wedding

Ont thing Matt Helm never worries about is the mission ahead. Even this one doesn't faze him. Pose as an oil-rich Texan groom to a bride half his age. The object: Pick up the trail of an illicit arms shipment deep in the heart of Mexico. If Matt fails, the whole country could blow hot and high in the inferno of revolution, right at America's footstep. But he doesn't know yet that he's not only the point man, he's the number one target......

Printing History

Written by Donald Hamilton (1916-2006)

Monday, November 18, 2013

The Demolishers by Donald Hamilton

When terrorists pick the wrong victim

They unleash a powerful avenger

Matt Helm

Killer on Killer

The best exterminator for hire in the business, the head of a band of fanatical revolutionaries, Bultman intended to change the map of the Caribbean. At first Matt Helm wanted no part of stopping him or his army. But all that changed when Bultman's commandos blew up a restaurant on the Florida coast full of innocent people. Among the victims was Matt's oldest son. Counterassassination was Matt's business. Now it would be his very special pleasure.

Printing History

Written by Donald Hamilton (1916-2006)

Thursday, August 22, 2013

The Vanishers by Donald Hamilton

When prominent people disappear without a trace, there's only one man to call. Matt Helm

Norseland Intrigue

The disappearances are baffling. The victim rate is mounting. And the next likely target is Mac, the wily old spymaster an Matt Helm's boss. Only Matt can stop the dirty work of the Vanishers. Matt follows the trail of two women, both treacherous and beautiful, to chilly Scandinavia, ancestral home of the Helm clan. Facing a coup from within the agency and a terrorist threat from without, Matt may well join his ancestors sooner than he had hoped.

Printing History

Written by Donald Hamilton (1916-2006)

Thursday, July 18, 2013

The Detonators by Donald Hamilton

A lethal time bomb is ticking

Only one man can defuse it

Matt Helm

Daddy's Deadly Little Girl

The prim young lady needs a favor: Help her father beat a bum drug rap. After all he is Matt Helm's old colleague at the agency.

Suddenly Dad's boat detonates outside Miami harbor. And Matt discovers that young Amy isn't as innocent as she looks.

Amy lures Matt to the Bahamas, where an unlikely pack of fanatics may be planning an explosive surprise.........

Printing History

Written by Donald Hamilton (1916-2006)

Saturday, June 15, 2013

The Annihilators by Donald Hamilton

Matt Helm's 20th Adventure

"You are about to have a visitor. Senor Helm, if you value a certain lady's life, please restrain yourself. Violence will be met with violence."

A terrorist outfit from Costa Verde was pressuring Matt to do a job for them. Something simple like assassinating the president of Costa Verde. If he said no, they would kill Elly. Elly and Matt had a nice thing going, and he cared a lot for her. "Send Eleanor back unharmed," Matt told them. "Hurt her and you're dead. All of you." So now they knew where Matt stood. And if anything happened to Elly, there would be only one thing left. Revenge.

Printing History

Written by Donald Hamilton (1916-2006)

Copyright
1983

Random House, Inc
Ballantine Books
Fawcett Gold Medal Books

ISBN 449 12504
Printed in Canada
1st printing (August 1983)
3rd Printing (March 1987)

Monday, April 1, 2013

The Retaliators by Donald Hamilton

Trying to frame Matt Helm is a dangerous business.......

Cover by Gordon Johnson

Matt Helm was unexpectedly rich and he didn't like it. The $20,000 that had been deposited in his account was a complete surprise. Very nice. Except Matt knew that someone was setting him up, making it look as though he were a traitor and getting a payoff. Someone who wanted Matt out of the business. Suddenly, another agent with an unexpected surplus in his bank account was murdered. Matt figured he'd better tack down his "benefactors" before they retired him for good.

Printing History

Written by Donald Hamilton (1916-2006)

Copyright
1976

Fawcett Gold Medal Books

ISBN 449 13567
August 1976

Ballantine Books
ISBN 449 12694
First Printing (December 1983)
Second Printing (June 1984)

Monday, December 10, 2012

The Revengers by Donald Hamilton

A trip down memory lane explodes into a nerve-shattering odyssey for Matt Helm

Mean But Honest, Tough But Fair

It began with a funeral for an old friend that sparked romantic memories Matt Helm wanted to forget. Especially since they involved a woman he thought was out of his life forever. But when one old flame led to another and a lot of them were getting snuffed, it was hard to stay cool. Suddenly Matt was hot on a trail that seemed to go nowhere, except back to his past. A past he thought had been buried in Mexico along with a small-time hood and a dirty drug deal. A past filled with women who were now leading him into the ultimate compromising position.

Printing History

Written by Donald Hamilton (1916-2006)

Sunday, September 16, 2012

The Terrorizers by Donald Hamilton

A terrific adventure featuring the incredible Matt Helm

When they fished him out of the bay and he woke up in a Canadian hospital, he had no idea who he was. The plane crash had wiped his mind clean of the past. Then this gorgeous chick waltzed into his room and told him he was Paul Madden, a photographer, her fiance, which seemed like a pretty good deal. Except when some joker called on the phone and told him he was Matt Helm. Somehow he knew this meant trouble. Bad trouble.


Cover by JRush

Printing History

Written by Donald Hamilton (1916-2006)

Copyright
1977

Fawcett Gold Medal Books
September 1977
ISBN 449 13865
2nd Printing

Ballantine Books
ISBN 449 12597
August 1983

Saturday, July 21, 2012

The Terminators by Donald Hamilton

To Be Safely Terminated by Extreme Prejudice

Mission #16

When the big man in Washington assigned Matt Helm to ride shotgun on an old buddy's top secret mission in Norway, Matt naturally wanted to know what was happening. "They need an agent with a lethal reputation,: said Mac. "That's all you need to know." Matt hated theses "need to know" deals. But he went along with it until somebody murderer his partner. The girl who was supposed to be his "mistress." Now Matt was mad. Mad enough to blow operation "top secret" sky high.

Printing History

Written by Donald Hamilton (1916-2006)

Fawcett Gold Medal Books

ISBN 449 03214

April 1975

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

The Intimidators by Donald Hamilton

It was a double mission this time. But Matt Helm could handle it....

One to terminate a top-notch enemy agent.

Two, to locate the missing fiancee of a Texas oil millionaire.

Somehow they were connected. Matt did not know how, until a few members of the international set also disappeared near the infamous Bermuda Triangle. Everyone figured they were dead. Then Matt discovered they were alive, and part of a very deadly game.

Printing History

Written by Donald Hamilton (1916–2006)

Copyright
1974

Fawcett Gold Medal Books
March 1974

Ballantine Books
ISBN 449 12842
July 1985

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

The Intriguers by Donald Hamilton

Trouble has met its match when Matt Helm is on the job.

A Quiet Vacation

Turns Into The Trip Of Matt's Life

Matt is on vacation in Mexico with nothing on his mind bigger than a fish, when some joker tried to shot him in the back. Naturally it was no accident. When secret agents get shot at, it's never an accident. So Matt had to go back to work immediately. And for a bonus, he was given the boss's beautiful daughter as a playmate in peril. Martha Bordon, who has a peculiar conscience about killing, even if the culprit is a would be assassin. Together with fellow agent Lorna, the three of them are on the prowl for the guy who wants to take Matt out permanently.

Printing History

Fawcett Gold Medal Books

January 1973

ISBN 449 13999

Ballantine Books

August 1988

ISBN 449 13999

Monday, April 30, 2012

The Poisoners by Donald Hamilton

With trouble like this,

there's only one man to call:

Matt Helm

1984 Ballantine Edition

Matt Helm #13

This one was murder from the start. A lovely red-haired lass whose amateur standing as a secret agent had been cut short by some very professional killers. The strange part of it was that she had not been on assignment. Nobody had a clue as to what she had found. But obviously she had found something. Something very big and very bad. Too much for her, but just the right size for Matt Helm.

13th Printing

Printing History

Written by Donald Hamilton (1916-2006)

Fawcett Gold Medal Books

March 1971

ISBN 449 14163

11th Printing

Ballantine Books

June 1984

ISBN 449 12693

Saturday, March 31, 2012

The Interlopers by Donald Hamilton

Who stands between the President and an assassin's bullet?

Matt Helm.....

Mission #12

Matt Helm finds out just how fatal blond hair can be when he takes over another man's identity, fiancee, and fate.

Matt Helm has had some pretty tough assignments but this one beat them all. For the fate of the entire free world rests on his cunning skill in outwitting a madman bent on destruction. The madman's quest? To assassinate the President of the United States! How can Matt Helm stop him? By putting his very life on the line as a decoy. In one of the most bizarre mixed-doubles counterespionage missions anyone's ever heard of. Matt Helm discovers that he isn't immune to fear, but that sheer guts will come to rescue every time.

Printing History

Fawcett Gold Medal Books

449-02464 M2494 ($0.95)

449-13994 (14th Printing) ($1.75)

Ballantine Books

1st Printing December 1983

2nd Printing (449-12907) February 1986

Thursday, March 22, 2012

The Menacers by Donald Hamilton

Mission #11

What better man to track down a flying saucer scare than a hardhead like Matt Helm.

In a little town on the Mexican coast a young American women is under heavy guard by U.S. agents, and under heavy surveillance by Soviet operatives including Matt Helm's old mistress Vadya. The captive women not only to have witnessed a flying saucer, but to be the only survivor of its attack on her boat. Matt is to accompany her back to the States. Or kill her instantly if it looks like the Russians are even getting close to a snatch.