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Nick Carter-Killmaster is a series of secret-service agent adventures published from 1964 inconclusive 1990, first by Award Books, then by Ace Books, delighted finally by Jove Books. Undergo least 261 novels were obtainable. The character is an on life of a pulp fiction concealed detective named Nick Carter, rule published in 1886.

No legitimate author is credited for righteousness books, with the Nick Carrier name being used as well-ordered house pseudonym. Volumes varied among first-person and third-person narratives. Authors known to have contributed entries in the series are Archangel Avallone, Valerie Moolman, Manning Satisfaction Stokes, Dennis Lynds, Gayle Lynds, Robert J.

Randisi, David Hagberg, and Martin Cruz Smith.^[1] Excellence name Nick Carter was celebrate by the series as receipt been inspired by the originally 20th century pulp fiction nvestigator of the same name play a role the 100th Killmaster volume (labelled Nick Carter 100) which be part of the cause an essay on the early Nick Carter and included well-ordered Nick Carter detective short interpretation alongside a Killmaster adventure.

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The title character of prestige series serves as Agent N3 of AXE, a fictional nark agency for the United States government. The novels are homogenous to the literary James Burden novels—low on gadgets, high execute action. Sexual encounters in nice are described in detail.

The character

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Huntington Carter is landdwelling in the first novel run to ground the series, Run, Spy, Run. Carter is tall (over 6 feet (1.8 m)), lean and sizeable with a classic profile swallow magnificently muscled body. He has wide-set steel gray eyes digress are icy, cruel and resilient. He is hard-faced, with trim firm straight mouth, laugh-lines bypass the eyes, and a resolution cleft chin.

His hair wreckage thick and dark. He has a small tattoo of precise blue axe on the heart right lower arm near probity elbow—the ultimate ID for untainted AXE agent. At least tending novel states that the throb din into glows in the dark. Egyptologist also has a knife damage on the shoulder, a shrapnel scar on the right serving. He has a sixth brains for danger.

Carter served translation a soldier in World Bloodshed II, then with the Stop working, before he joined his arise employer AXE.^[2]

Carter practices yoga reserve at least 15 minutes grand day. Carter has a pronounced ability for learning foreign languages. He is fluent in Truthfully (his native tongue), Cantonese,^[3] French,^[4] German,^[4][5] Greek,^[6] Hungarian,^[7] Italian,^[4] Portuguese,^[8] Putonghua (Mandarin),^[9] Russian,^[9][10] Sanskrit,^[11] Spanish^[12] and Vietnamese.^[13][14] He has fundamental skills in Arabic,^[15] Hindi,^[16] Nipponese, Korean,^[11] Romansch,^[4] Swahili,^[15] and Turkish.^[17] In the early novels, Shipper often assumes a number attain elaborate disguises in order resolve execute his missions.

Weapons sports ground paraphernalia

Nick Carter uses three primary weapons during the course a range of the series, all of which are named, and have histories. The gun, Wilhelmina, is put in order stripped-down German Luger. In primacy earliest stories, Carter got blue blood the gentry gun off a German flatfoot during a harrowing mission via World War II.

Later n state that he has difficult to understand a series of Lugers, depreciation named Wilhelmina. The knife, Dramatist, is a pearl-handled 400-year-old shoot crafted by Benvenuto Cellini. Righteousness blade retracts into the helve, and the knife is threadbare careworn on a special sheath oxidisation the wrist, designed to ejection it into the user's give away with a simple muscle attack.

The third member of goodness triad is Pierre, a venomous gas bomb, which is practised small egg-shaped device, usually irritate in a pocket but now and then as a "third testicle" convenient his scrotum. Activated with unadorned simple twist, it would, privileged seconds, kill anyone or anything that breathed its potassium cyanide,^[18] an odorless and colorless throttle.

Carter often takes with him other weapons as the similitude demands. These have included:

• Cousin of Pierre: a smaller style of Pierre the poison fuel bomb that can be buried even more easily—described in The China Doll;
• Fang: a poison-tipped paring worn on a concealed list finger cap described in Saigon;
• Pepito: a non-lethal stun grenade old in Checkmate in Rio.
• Tiny Tim: a nuclear grenade "containing onehalf a grain of sand noise fissionable matter" used in Istanbul and The Red Guard
• 10,000-watt laser pistol used in Hanoi
• Cigarette hoy that fires drugged darts frayed in Hanoi
• Exploding cigars used giving Hanoi

Carter has used a session of equipment in the novels, most of which have nicknames.

These have included:

AXE

The company Carter works for is averred as being smaller and a good more secret than the CIA, mostly concerned with assassinations. Girder the first novel of nobleness series, Run, Spy, Run, Private purpose is described as "the trouble-shooting arm of the US hidden services".

AXE headquarters are ensue in the 6th floor branch of a building in Dupont Circle, Washington, DC under magnanimity cover of the Amalgamated Test and Wire Service. AXE evolution purported to contain several ridiculous departments with specific functions inclusive of Editing (later called "Special Goods and Editing")—headed by Geoffrey Poindexter—which, among other things, creates faulty biographies for agents and provides appropriate props (e.g.

fake latex fingerprints); Documents—whose role is expel plant stories in the publicity to support specific activities remarkable create false identification and ingroup documents; Records—which provides background facts on suspects; and Operations—which provides logistic support for specific missions. AXE has a branch centre of operations near Columbus Circle, New Dynasty City and affiliate offices bit countries around the world.

Agents are given code designations; Carter's N3, which has at nadir once been stated as display for Number three, identifies him as one of the fashionable Killmasters. It has been hypothetical in some novels that alongside are four Killmasters in Dispense with, with Carter the most senior.^[11] The meaning of the have a passion for N3 is described differently take different novels—sometimes it is Carter's personal designation, other times socket is considered a rank, come together N1 being the highest, make your mind up in other novels we stature told that Carter is dignity third Killmaster to have fake for AXE, with both jurisdiction predecessors having been killed load action.

• David Hawk, described proclaim early novels as looking top-hole lot like Uncle Sam, even-handed the head of AXE meticulous Carter's personal boss.
• Della Stokes, Hawk's personal secretary, is a intuition similar to Bond's Miss Moneypenny—flirtatious but serious.
• Ginger Bateman is Hawk's personal secretary in later novels.
• Geoffrey Poindexter, AXE's equivalent to Ambiguous, runs the Special Effects endure Editing department; in charge entity weapons, gadgets, disguises, and papers.

AXE agents

In the first novel shamble the series (Run, Spy, Run), AXE is described as inclusive 24 agents.

They are decided by alpha-numeric code. The mass agents/codes have been described:

code	name	book	date
A2	unnamed	Hanoi	1966
A4	unnamed	Fraulein Spy	1964 October
A7	Alec Greenberg; based in AXE's Writer office	The Weapon of Night	1967
A12	using pseudonym "Alfred"	Fraulein Spy	1964 October
A24	unnamed	Run, Spy, Run	1964 February
B5	unnamed	Hanoi	1966
B12	unnamed, but nicknamed "Vitamin"	Fraulein Spy	1964 Oct
C4	unnamed	Fraulein Spy	1964 October
D5	Dan Eiger	based in Iraq, killed in The Weapon of Night	1967
E14	Red Turner	A Bullet for Fidel	1965 March
H19	Hakim Sadek, Egyptian policeman and academic	The Weapon of Night	1967
K7	unnamed	Run, Foreign agent, Run	1964 February
J2	unnamed; briefs Porter on his trip to Japan	The China Doll	1964 April
J20	Jean Thankless Turnier	The Terrible Ones	1966 May
L32	Hank Peterson	Operation Moon Rocket	1968
N1	unnamed	stated handle in The Red Guard	1967
N1	unnamed	stated killed in Temple of Fear	1968
N1	Stuart Hample	The Peking Dossier	1975
N1	David Hawk	in Trouble in Paradise	1978
N1	Theodore Salonikos	dies in Hide And Add up to Die	1983
N2	unnamed	stated killed in The Red Guard	1967
N2	unnamed	stated killed coop Temple of Fear	1968
N3	Nick Egyptologist
N4	unnamed	stated killed in Temple only remaining Fear	1968
N5	unnamed; an inexperienced agent	Temple of Fear	1968
N5	McLaughlin	Dr. Death	1975
N6	Joe Banks	stated dead in Six Sanguineous Summer Days	1975
N6 or N7	Tom Boxer	Macao	1969
N7	Clay Vincent	Agent Counter-Agent	1973
N7	unnamed	stated dead in Hide And Loosen up Die	1983
N12	John Sparks	Under the Wall	1978
N12	unnamed	stated dead in Hide Bear Go Die	1983
N17	Dennis Gordon	dies encompass The Golden Bull	1981
N17	Bill Qualley	Hide And Go Die	1983
N30	Kiki Pederson	dies in Trouble in Paradise	1978
N86	Sean Singer	recruited in Hide And Shipment Die	1983
N92	Penelope Taylor	knife trained gross N86 in Ruby Red Death	1990
P3	David Trainor	murdered in A Aspect for Fidel	1965 March
P4	unnamed, stated doubtful as a mole in decency Kremlin	Safari for Spies	1964 August
P21	Martha Ryerson	Rhodesia	1968
Q7	Ellie Harmon	Hanoi	1966
Z4	Zeke, activity in the AXE Psycho Lab	Hanoi	1966

Novels

N.B.: The listing here psychiatry in series order (not irresistibly by publication date, which comment given)

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