THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO KILL A MAN... Chinese assassins prefer a knife. Others use bare hands. American pros favor high-powered guns. Russian killers choose dynamite. There’s just one man who can defeat the many ways of death. His name’s Nick Carter. This time Killmaster will have to use all his predatory skills to deal with the butchers sent his way in...

THE PLACE: The sinister back alleys and exotic brothels of legendary Casablanca. THE SITUATION: A blood-chilling manhunt for a dread double agent who knew too damn much — for either side. THE VERDICT: Another masterful novel of suspense in the relentlessly exciting Nick Carter-Killmaster series.

AROUND THE WORLD... ON A TRAIL OF MURDER Saigon It was the last days of the war, and in the middle of the bloodshed Killmaster has to find a man named Walter Corbin — and a roll of microfilm. He found his man just in time to see his head shatter into a million pieces... Hong Kong The trail led from sampan city, where silence was safety, to a series of brutal, vicious murders. Nick Carter was certain of one thing — the organization behind those killings had more at stake than a roll of film... Washington Printed in USA Killmaster needed an update from Hawk. He called the States, but AXE had vanished! He was a “free agent”-free to die in a Hong Kong gutter...

The KGB was planning to wreck the U.S. economy 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 vast financial power — would trigger total economic collapse! Killmaster had to discover the identity of the phony “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...

Take a Mexican political party that demands the territorial return of Texas... and New Mexico... and Arizona... and California. Add a Chinese paper exporting operation that exports a fine engraver’s surface for the familiar five-dollar portrait of Lincoln. Stir with a Countess who has made a fortune in cosmetics and runs a private little kingdom at her castle deep in the Mexican jungle. Mix in the CIA and AXE, prickling each other’s sensitivities while the nation and the highest men in government are stumped to stop the ruin of the American economy... And suddenly, in the meeting between Hawk and the CIA man, the ingredients have blended into a little pill they hand Nick...