The third installment in the legendary Matt Helm thrillers
A year after having been reactivated as a spy, Matt Helm receives a message from his ex-wife asking for his aid. The threat is an enemy agent named Martel, disguised as a mob hit man. To protect
his family, Helm must remove the threat before his own children pay the ultimate price.
Originally released in the era of the James Bond novels, the Matt Helm novels were considered grittier and more realistic than Bond, garnering them critical praise and ardent fans.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“A real world with a real character.” —Tom Clancy, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“Matt Helm is as credible a man of violence as has ever figured in the fiction of intrigue…A tense and often cruel story.” —New York Times
“We Americans have an agent of our own who makes Jimmy Bond look like the London fop he really is…Matt Helm, as tough an operative as ever, crushed a Russian spy’s kidney with a crowbar.” —Berkshire Eagle
Donald Hamilton (1916–2006) was the creator of Matt Helm, star of twenty-seven novels that have sold more than twenty million copies worldwide. He was born in Uppsala, Sweden, attended the
University of Chicago, and served in the US Naval Reserve. His writing career began in 1946 with short stories for Collier’s and the Saturday Evening Post. His first novel was Date
with Darkness, published in 1947, and altogether he published thirty-eight novels. The first Matt Helm novel, Death of a Citizen, was originally published in 1960, at the height of the
Cold War.
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