Showing posts with label Saul Wernick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saul Wernick. Show all posts

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Revenge Of The Generals by Saul Wernick

Arena of Death

Four power-mad generals, an engineering genius, a beautiful astrophysicist, and an aristocratic Spaniard caught Nick Carter "Killmaster" in a deadly trap. Their diabolical plot brought the world to its knees....

Star Edition
One by one the letters came. Each warning of an impending airliner disaster. Soon after each letter a jumbo jet would crash from the sky in a hideous orgy of destruction. The world was shocked by the carnage. Nick was the final hope. But could he escape in time to halt the ultimate weapon of death.

Four doddering generals with money and power to get what they wanted......revenge!

El General Felipe Quintero was descended from the Conquistadors, but he had been badly hurt by strafing German planes in the 1930's. On his ranch in Spain he plotted............................

Major-General Emilien Gignoux received a stunning blow during WW II when ground strafing planes almost wiped out his infantry troops. He never received another command. He remembered and was ready...........

Lieutenant-General  Aleksei Akimov's tanks were blown out of action is first day in the Ukraine and he was lucky not to be put in front of a Soviet firing squad. He could not forget the humiliation...........

Colonel-General Otto Schneider's trucks and armored personnel carriers could not move for three days because of American fighter-bombers. It was too late when he could. His grudge has grown and festered...

They pooled their resources and got the best brain to assuage their long-wounded dignity. And the harrowing terror campaign against the skies began.... Could Nick Carter outmaneuver them...?

Award Cover
Printing History
Written by Saul Wernick
Award AD1664 (February 1977)
Cancelled
Charter 441 71834 (June 1978)
Star 352 30440 (1979)

Trivia
Revenge Of  The Generals was to be published by Award Books in February 1977, but was cancelled when Award folded in January. Charter Books picked up the series in 1978.

Sunday, August 14, 2011

The Gallagher Plot by Saul Wernick

Nick Carter is in the middle of a very dirty business deal: The payoff could be death! 
Terrorists pull off a kidnapping and the ransom demand is millions in top secret arms.

George Gross Cover
They could turn the Emerald Isle into a sea of blood!

Gallagher: A fanatic nationalist is hell bent on getting the most advanced weaponry for his civil war. He'd kidnap, torture, and murder to get what he wants.
Marat: The gangster son of a powerful Syndicate head. He was helpless when his daughter was kidnapped for $2.5 million. He vowed revenge and he did nit care who was the bloody target. 
Brenna: Her weapon was her body and she gave it willingly and expertly fir the cause of her strife torn country.
Mavropoulos: International arms dealer, a snake in gentleman's clothes. He would put any weapon up for sale, and the spoils to the highest bidder.

Award Edition
Printing History
Written by Saul Wernick

Award AD 1647 (19760
Charter 441 27244 (1979)


Friday, July 22, 2011

The Snake Flag Conspiracy by Saul Wernick

All Strangers.
All Unlikely Killers.
All Sharing One Common Goal.
Destroy Nick Carter!

Universal Edition
Economic Disaster
 The KGB had an agent in Boston with a foolproof plan to wreck the American economy in its Bicentennial year. By forcing the biggest banks to dump all their stocks at the same time. A plant in one of Boston's old families. And the manipulation of their cast financial power, would trigger total economic collapse!

Award Edition
Nick Carter Killmaster N3 had to discover the identity of the phoney "Boston Brahmin" and make his sudden death look like an accident, before the collapse began. But there was a welcoming committee of thousands of killers waiting for him.

George Gross Cover

Don't tread on me.
Do.... and you die.

Printing History
Written by Saul Wernick

Award AQ1576 1976
Universal 426 18542 1978
Charter 441 77193 December 1981


Monday, July 18, 2011

The Fanatics Of Al Asad by Saul Wernick

The President and Vice President have been killed.
An Arab killer team has kidnapped the acting President.
Their ransom, the destruction of Israel by the United States!
Nick Carter has only 48 hours to find and destroy the Arab fanatics.

Universal Edition
Mortar Attack on White House!
President and Vice President asassinated!
House Speaker kidnapped!

Four inch headlines screamed from the front pages. There was only one way to save American democracy, find the Speaker of the House before the insane terrorists carried out their ultimate threat. The trail of terror led to New York City. Somewhere in Manhattan lurked "The Lion", Al Asad. The name of a group of fanatics who thoutht they had a divine mission: Terror, assassination, and international blackmail. It was the job for one man, alone. But even when Nick  Carter "Killmaster", found them, any wrong move would mean instant death for the next President of the United States.

Award Edition
Printing History
Written by Saul Wernick

Award AQ1575 1976
Universal 426 18921 1978

Saturday, June 18, 2011

The Aztec Avenger by Saul Wernick

The Eccentric Billionaire
The Cool English blonde
The Mexican Pimp
The Mafia Don
The Corsican Smuggler
The Ex-Boxing Champ
The Spymaster
The Countess

One of them runs the biggest heroin operation then world had seen. Nick Carter's job is to find out which.

Universal Edition
All of them make for Nick Carter's most bizarre assignment yet.

Award Edition

Gregorius: An eccentric billionaire with ambitious plans for a chain of luxury hotels. But his life will cease if Stocelli does not get his gambling concessions. HE hires Nick to get Stocelli off his back. 

Stocelli: A Mafia boss whose operatives around the world are being framed, involving him on some serious charges. He hires Nick to get him off the hook with the Commission.

George Gross Cover
Nick Carter's job is to found out which and stop them at all costs. From the hillside poppy fields to the lavish splendor of Mexican haciendas, Nick tracks his quarry with death following close behind.

Tandem Edition
Printing History
Written by Saul Wernick

Award #1356 1974
Tandem #16897 1976
Universal #16897 unkn
Charter #03800 1979