The Silencers

Somebody opened my coffin that night in the middle of a cocktail party. I'd been all but dead these 15 years, turned into a household pet by a wife and kids. But now the girl whom I'd known by the code name Tina had walked back into my life -- and 15 years of settled, complacent living slipped away. I was back in that time when our world had been savage and alive, when I had been a le...

The department is gravely concerned about Helm. He is on a brutal mission, it is true -- but his own callousness seems to have reached a point of absolute savagery. He has apparently murdered one of our own agents. Helm is on or near Chesapeake Bay. He is armed & dangerous, and must be located , kept under surveillance, and possibly removed from active service.

A quiet mission of assassination is no sweat for Matt Helm -- till the man whose special talent is killing suddenly has to play God to a beautiful, beat-up girl, tortured half out of her mind in the Costa Verde jungle. ... Until a shapely foreign agent he never got around to finishing off lures him into a strange trek into the wilds of northern Mexico.... Until a Russian missile smuggled out of Cu...

A brutal journey into the bitter, silent world of a government assassin, where calculated killing occurs in subtle ways & strange places -- & where wracking torture is a predictable rule of the game. Matt Helm finds himself torn between the neurotic urges of a gangster's headstrong daughter & a threat to the life of the woman to whom he himself had once been married.

Helm has been sent halfway around the world to find & destroy the mythically elusive agent they called Caselius. His only lead to him is a woman, who might or might not be a double agent. Before Helm finally faces Caselius up in the bleak north woods of the Swedish ore country, two women will die, two more souls will be charged up to Matt Helm's account, in heaven or in hell.