Matt Helm - The Silencers
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (697 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 085768339X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Perhaps the most famous of the titles, due to the Dean Martin film of the same name, but where the movies were tongue-in-cheek, the novels are breathtakingly brutal.. When she is killed before Helm can complete his mission to extract her, he finds himself teamed up with the woman's sister as he fights to save the lives of a group of scientists and American officials. Helm is sent to extract a female agent working as a stripper in a bar in Mexico
''Donald Hamilton has brought to the spy novel the authentic hard realism of Dashiell Hammett; and his stories are as compelling, and probably as close to the sordid truth of espionage, as any now being told.'' --New York Times ''Top-ranking American secret agent fareGood writing, slick plotting, and stimulating characters, all tartly flavored with wit.'' --Book Week
Donald is always a great read Another great book in the Matt Helm series. I wish Donald was still around to write more. Such a great talent.. "Great series" according to Steve Kaye. Hamilton was a very good writer of action stories -- in Westerns, mysteries, and here in spy thrillers. These are spare, not like today's bloated, endlessly introspective doorstop-sized books. Matt Helm is not James Bond in fact there is some effort to "de-bunk" the Bond image of spies. Helm is the antithesis of the cool, suave, sharply dressed, perfectly quaffed, impeccably equipped spy. Good action, good characters, lots of fun. Read 'em all. The first 8 are being reprinted. The first four are available now, a fifth to be published in August, a. A Matt Helm adict! I read the Matt Helm books when they first came out in paperback. I had a complete collection but, over time, the paperbacks fell apart. Now that the series is being published as eBooks, I can restore my collection. Helm is more believable than Bond and Donald Hamilton can tell a story with the best. I recommend the books but not the movies. although, if they had played the stories straight, Dean Martin would have been a good Helm.
Donald Hamilton is the creator of Matt Helm, star of 27 novels that have sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. The first Matt Helm novel, Death of a Citizen, was originally published in 1960, at the height of the Cold War. 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