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Matt Helm - The Silencers Spiral-Bound | June 11, 2013

Donald Hamilton

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Helm is sent to extract a female agent working as a stripper in a bar in Mexico. 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. 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.
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Original Binding: Mass Market
Pages: 224 pages
ISBN-10: 085768339X
Item Weight: 0.3 lbs
Dimensions: 4.2 x 0.6 x 6.9 inches
"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

"This series by Donald Hamilton is the top-ranking American secret agent fare...Good writing, slick plotting and stimulating characters, all tartly flavored with wit."-Book Week

"With Matt Helm, Donald Hamilton helped start the spy adventure genre. I welcome the reissue of these books so that readers can experience this mythic hero."-David Morrell, creator of Rambo and New York Times bestselling author of Murder as Fine Art

"Fast, tightly written, brutal, and very good..."-Milwaukee Journal
Donald Hamilton is the creator of Matt Helm, star of 27 novels that have sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. He was born in Uppsala, Sweden, attended the University of Chicago, and served in the U.S. 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 38 novels. The first Matt Helm novel, Death of a Citizen, was originally published in 1960, at the height of the Cold War.