Istanbul by Manning Lee Stokes

Istanbul

by Manning Lee Stokes

Poppies the color of blood make a trail of intrigue and destruction

George Gross Cover

If it had been only opium smuggling across the Turkish Border or the savage murder of a girl named Mija at the notorious Cinema Blue. AXE would had never been involved. But the stakes were very high. Nothing less than the total destruction of the world in World War III. Nick's mission was to kill four men. These men were part of a local murder for hire for the largest drug syndicate in the world. The men, Maurice Defarge, Dr Joseph Six, Carlos Gonzalaz, and Johnny Ruthless.

Printing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Conde Nast Publications, Inc

Award Books

First Printing Oct 1965 (A152F)

Second Printing Aug 1966 (A152)

Third Printing 1968 (A384F)

Fourth Printing 1970 (A640X) 

Fifth Award 1972 (AN1095) 

Sixth Award 1974 (AN1095) 

Tandem Books

First Printing 1968 

(T244)

Second Printing 1971 

ISBN 426 5792

Charter Books

First Printing January 1981 

ISBN 441 37483

Sinner, You Slay Me! by Carter Brown

Sinner, You Slay Me!

Carter Brown

Always knock before entering your own flat. I didn't and found a wife I hadn't married and the murder I hadn't committed.

Squeak it was called. The hottest of the scandal mags. And Marcus Mouse had just got a job with them. Maybe it was an unfortunate coincidence that his name happened to be Mouse. Isobel, the girl he loved, thought he was more Mouse than Man. His first assignment was in Hollywood. His editor, Herman J. Herman, thought of everything. He even supplied him with a wife. One would expect a star like Lola Monterey who was currently disposing of her fourth and gazing starry-eyed at her fifth to be murdered, wouldn't you? Well she wasn't. But the murder centered around her. Of course there were other girlfriends, and just to make it cost, Isobel arrived on the scene. Mouse had told her he was not really married to Virginia, it wouldn't have helped, but then there was the second murder, with Marcus set up as the fall guy for it. He did not have time for dames any more, well, almost!

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc

Numbered Series #42 (1957)

Reprinted By Demand Series #11 (Sept 1959)

The Eyes Of The Tiger by Manning Lee Stokes

The Eyes Of The Tiger

by Manning Lee Stokes

The little room, buried deep in the living rock of the old Schloss, reeked of evil and pain. Rader and his men did not wear black hoods and masks, but the effect was the same, they were torturers...

The young baroness' feet were already anchored to the rack. She was screaming in terror. The curse of the golden statue with the ruby eyes was about to claim another victim.

Nick Carter is given the task of recovering some Nazi loot. This loot is from a Japanese temple that was presented to Adolph Hitler as a token of Axis partnership. As the story goes, the loot lay in a a Swiss bank account protected by a kill on sight order by two hand picked elite SS guards.

Bonus Cover

Printing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Conde Nast Publications, Inc

Award Books

1st Printing: September 1965 (A152)

2nd Printing: August 1966 (A152)

3rd Printing: 1969 (A315)

4th Printing: 1970 (A315)

5th Printing 1973 (AN1132)

Charter Books

January 1981

ISBN 441-22407

Mayflower/Dell 

2437

1967

Mayflower Books

113737

1968,1969

ISBN 583 11028

1970,1970,1974

The 13th Spy by Valerie Moolman

The 13th Spy

by Valerie Moolman

Moscow is the hotspot for the "AXE" group's most explosive action

When an American CIA agent posted in Moscow is killed in an accident in Russia, and American Embassy records are in his briefcase disclosing top-secret recordings of Russian conversations, it looks like the American agent was spying on Russia. But when hallucinating drugs are found in his system, they are not so sure it’s an American plot, but decide to use it to force America to prove that it wasn’t; just in case it’s their pals the Red Chinese. Nick Carter is sent to Russia in a complicated maneuver disguised first as another agent Russia knows about, and then assumes the guise of a mole. When he first arrives he’s saddled with one of their top agents, to keep an eye on him. A woman, of course, but she is gargantuan, and has a sense of humor. Nick instantly takes a liking to her; he does find a Russian ballerina to have an affair with on the side. There is a secret Brotherhood of 12, consisting of Chinese agents, seeking to cause problems between Russia and America, while obtaining Russian secrets for themselves.

Bonus Covers

Printing History

Written by Valerie Moolman

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Conde Nast Publications, Inc

Award Books

1st Printing: May 1965 (A139)

2nd Printing: July 1966 (A139)

3rd Printing: August 1966 (A139)

4th Printing: 1970 (A626)

5th Printing 1972 (A942)

6th Printing 1974 (AN1100)

Tandem Books

ISBN 426-3906

1969,1970

Brown Watson Ltd

Digit House

1965, April 1966

R924

A Bullet For Fidel by Valerie Moolman

A Bullet For Fidel

by Valerie Moolman

The Doomsday weapon in Cuban hands threaten to explode World War III

Cuba.....International spy-nest festering 90 mile from America's shore. The eyes of Nick Carter had pierce the camouflage covering the Doomsday missiles. But the eyes had pierced Nick's disguise, too. He was in Carmella's arms when the man with the sword cane arrived, planning to neutralize two traitors with a single stroke.

They found the first agent dead, his corpse mutilated and bloody. Before dying he left one clue. The word "star" written in his own blood on the filthy floor. So began Nick Carter's mission, a hunt and destroy mission for a doomsday weapon in Fidel Castro's hands!

Bonus Cover

Printing History

Written by Valerie Moolman

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Conde Nast Publications, Inc

Award Books

1st Printing: March 1965 (A130)

2nd Printing: July 1966 (A130)

3rd Printing: August 1966 (A130)

4th Printing: 1973 (AN1271)

Tandem Books

ISBN 426-3914

1969

ISBN 426-12562

1975

Star Books

ISBN 352-30468

1979

Brown Watson Ltd

Digit House

1965

R927

Saigon by Michael Avallone and Valerie Moolman

Saigon

by Michael Avallone and Valerie Moolman

"Little Paris" where love talk is wire tapped and each caress can lead to sudden death.

Claire La Farge, a widow of a French intelligence officer, lives in a large rice and tea plantation in North Vietnam. She receives a coded message in the form of a knotted belt (quipu) from a former associate of her husband. She sends her trusted servant, Saito, to Saigon to place an advert in the personal column of the Times of Vietnam hoping to contact former colleagues of her late husband who can decode the message. Raoul Dupre, a former French intelligence officer and businessman in Saigon, reads the ad and makes contact with AXE. Nick Carter is sent to Saigon with orders to help Raoul Dupre contact Claire La Farge.

Bonus Covers

Printing History

Written by Michael Avallone and Valerie Moolman

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Conde Nast Publications, Inc

Award Books

1st Printing: December 1964 (A122)

2nd Printing: July 1965 (A122)

3rd Printing: April 1966 (A122)

4th Printing: August 1966 (A122)

5th Printing: 1970 (A625)

Tandem Books

ISBN 426-3885

1969, 1970

ISBN 426-12597

1973

Brown Watson Ltd

Digit House

1965, April 1966

R926

Fraulein Spy by Valerie Moolman

Fraulein Spy

by Valerie Moolman

Sex, espionage, and sadism mark the deadly struggle against a master plan for world conquest.

The Spy Who Mixed Love and Duty

Nick Carter is on the trail of Judas, the master spy first encountered in Run, Spy, Run. Posing as an investigative journalist for a West German tabloid newspaper, Nick tracks Judas to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he is living among the expatriate German community under the alias Hugo Bronson. Nick Carter meets an informant at his home who reveals that Bronson is actually Martin Bormann, one of Adolf Hitler's closest aides and who was thought to have escaped from Germany at the end of World War II.

Printing History

Written by Valerie Moolman

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Conde Nast Publications, Inc

Award Books

1st Printing: October 1964 (A118)

2nd Printing: July 1965 (A118)

3rd Printing: April 1966 (A118)

4th Printing: August 1966 (A118)

5th Printing: 1970 (A624)

6th Printing 1971 (A937)

7th Printing 1972 (AN1101)

8th Printing 1974 (AN1101

Tandem Books

ISBN 426-3922

1969, 1970

ISBN 426-12650

1973

Brown Watson Ltd

Digit House

1965, April 1966

R903

Presses De La Cite (Paris)

#763 May 1966

Translated by Paul Grabette

Bussiera a Saint-Amand France

Safari For Spies by Valerie Moolman

Safari For Spies

by Valerie Moolman

Casablanca.....International crossroads of sex and espionage and a death trap for Nick Carter!

Nick Carter, taking on the role of a concerned diplomat, arrives in the American embassy of a new African country to find out who obliterated a tiny village, killing innocent women and children. It's clear that whoever is responsible is also behind the terrorism in the streets of the new capital. The evidence points to American supported guerillas. N3's mission id\to find the real perpetrators, before the Soviets take full advantage of another stepping stone in Africa!

Printing History

Written by Valerie Moolman

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Conde Nast Publications, Inc

Award Books

1st Printing: August 1964 (A114)

2nd Printing: July 1965 (A114)

3rd Printing: April 1966 (A114)

4th Printing: August 1966 (A114)

5th Printing: 1970 (A623)

Tandem Books

ISBN 426-3893

1969, 1970

ISBN 426-12642

June 1975

Star Books

ISBN 352-30584

1979

Charter Books

ISBN 441-10325-1

January 1981

Brown Watson Ltd

Digit House

1965, April 1966

R915

Checkmate In Rio by Valerie Moolman

Checkmate In Rio

by Valerie Moolman

N3 heads for a vacation on the beach...and ends up caught in a deadly snare!

AXE's man in Rio wasn't there anymore. In fact, the whole intelligence apparatus that had been built with such care and operated with such cunning had just winked out like a shorted TV tube. National security, violence and a mysterious women...the assignment had to be Nick Carter.

Bonus Cover

Printing History

Written by Valerie Moolman

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Conde Nast Publications, Inc

Award Books

1st Printing: May 1964 (A110)

2nd Printing: July 1965 (A110)

3rd Printing: July 1966 (A110)

4th Printing: 1968 (A382)

5th Printing: 1970 (A639)

Tandem Books

ISBN 426-6998-6

1968, 1973

Charter Books

ISBN 441-10325-1

August 1979

Brown Watson Ltd

Digit House

 1965

R919

Winther, Inc

1969

The China Doll by Michael Avallone and Valerie Moolman

The China Doll 

by Michael Avallone and Valerie Moolman

Sex and savagery are the facts of life for every spy, and to survive,

he's better be good at both...........

Nick Carter is pitted against CLAW, most brutal and subtle of all enemy organizations. He is sent to penetrate the Forbidden City, where no white man has ever set foot, to seek out and destroy the legendary agent who threatens American security. Nick must make his choices between Yasunara "Daughter of the Dragon" and Taka, concubine whose Oriental training in the arts of sex are the double agent's most devastating weapon.

Printing History

Written by Michael Avallone (1924-1999) and Valerie Moolman

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Conde Nast Publications, Inc

Award Books

1st Printing: April 1964 (A105)

2nd Printing: July 1965 (A105)

3rd Printing: July 1966 (A105)

4th Printing: 1968 (A380)

5th Printing: 1970 (A638)

Brown Watson Ltd

Digit House

December 1965

R912