SPY NOVEL REVIEW: THE RETALIATORS BY DONALD HAMILTON

The Retaliators

Author: Donald Hamilton

Publisher: Titan Books

 

When I got the press release with full details of the book and its contents, I didn't expect the James Bond style figure on the right. As Donald has already written 27 novels in the Matt Helm series, maybe this makes him some kind of Fleming, but if you look closer, Matt Helm is a different kind of secret agent and in this novel Matt has become that much richer thanks to twenty thousand dollars appearing in his bank account.

 

SECRET AGENT REVIEW: THE TERRORIZERS: A MATT HELM NOVEL BY DONALD HAMILTON

The Terrorizers: A Matt Helm Novel by Donald Hamilton



In The Retaliators, Matt Helm had twenty thousand stashed into his bank account and had to find the killer of another agent before he got picked-off too. Here, Matt Helm is back as a "counter- assassination agent" hired by the US government to get rid of threats to the system. Life isn't what you think, and for Matt, this latest instalment of the Matt Helm novels has him wake up to a woman called Kitty who tells him he is in fact Paul Madden, a successful free-lance photographer who will marry her whether he likes it or not!

THE DETONATORS: A MATT HELM NOVEL BY DONALD HAMILTON

The Detonators: A Matt Helm Novel by Donald Hamilton

Matt Helm's history with women isn't as good as he'd hoped. They give him a hard time when he's dating them, and now Amy Bartlett is proving too prim and proper for their own good after her father is about to spend time in jail for drugs offences - she wants to set him free, but Matt wants the whole story and doesn't buy the fact she says she's prim - she must have some vices, surely.