KILLMASTER 4: Safari for Spies (1964) by Nick Carter
Friday, 30. June 2006, 12:46:03
This is the earliest of the Nick Carter Killmasters I own. In it Nicholas J. Huntington Carter poses as a special ambassador. The cover promised me Casablanca, full of spies, but Nick spends most of his time in Nyanga, a new African country which is blaming America for a spate of terrorist bombings, a view supported by the Russians in the country.Carter investigates and discovers that it is actually a Red Chinese plot to take over the country. After bedding two ladies and killing several bad guys Carter is able to stop the Chinese plot to forment revolution in Nyanga.
Throughout this mission Carter is followed by a greenfaced man with google eyes named Laszlo, I imagine that he looks like Joel Cairo (Peter Lorre) from CASABLANCA. Carter follows Laszlo to Casablanca for the final chapter of the book where he takes out Ten Wong, the Chinese master mind behind the plot with his own deadly garden.
Aside from the disappointment that so little of the book was set in Casablanca, it's nice to see the Killmaster in action.
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