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This page lists novels that feature the special agent Matt Helm.

Death of a Citizen

Donald Hamilton

1960

A Matt Helm novel.

"Matt Helm, one-time special agent for the American government during the Second World War, has left behind his violent past to raise a family in Santa Fe, New Mexico. When a former colleague turns rogue and kidnaps his daughter, Helm is forced to return to his former life as a deadly and relentless assassin."

The Wrecking Crew

Donald Hamilton

1960

A Matt Helm novel.

"Matt Helm, newly reinstated counter-agent, has a mission. He must travel to the wastes of northern Sweden and dispose of Caselius, a wraith-like operator with a genius for destruction. But amid a bewildering web of deceit woven by the enemy agent, his only ally deceased and help a thousand miles away, Helm soon realises he must track down his deadly prey alone."

The Removers

Donald Hamilton

1961

A Matt Helm novel.

"It is a year since his reactivation and counter-agent Matt Helm, code name Eric, gets a call from his ex-wife, asking for help. Soon he's torn between the neurotic urges of a gangster's headstrong daughter and the remnants of his former life. There's also his day job: enemy agent Martel must be 'removed' before he can threaten national security—or the lives of Helm's family."

The Silencers

Donald Hamilton

1962

A Matt Helm novel.

"When a female agent in Mexico 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 number of scientists and Congressmen."

Murderer’s Row

Donald Hamilton

1962

A Matt Helm novel.

"The department is concerned about Matt Helm. Having been given a distasteful assignment—assaulting a fellow agent in order to establish her cover in a top-secret operation—the woman is now dead. Alone in Chesapeake Bay, and pursued by his own government, Helm must complete the dead agent's assignment and assassinate an enemy operative. Unless his employers get to him first."

The Ambushers

Donald Hamilton

1963

A Matt Helm novel.

"After carrying out a deadly assignment for a foreign nation, Matt Helm can unwind by tracking down a Nazi who doesn't know the war is over, and who has plans for a Russian missile smuggled out of Cuba, plans that don't look good for the United States. His only ally is a battle-scarred and shapely female Soviet agent who can't stand to be touched. At first, anyway."

The Shadowers

Donald Hamilton

1964

A Matt Helm novel.

"In order to foil an assassination plot, counter- agent Matt Helm must undertake his most dangerous mission: matrimony. A man like Helm is not the kind a woman would marry. Unless she has to. Unless it's all part of maintaining an ingenious cover. The man whose daily bread is violence takes a most unlikely bride—just to make sure death doesn't part them."

The Ravagers

Donald Hamilton

1964

A Matt Helm novel.

"It was not a peaceful way to die, but there was nothing Matt Helm could do for his fellow agent. He had found him in a Canadian motel room, his once-handsome face eaten away by acid. Scratch one agent. The women wouldn't be lining up for him now. But it created further problems. The most likely culprit was a woman Helm had orders to protect—no matter the cost."

The Devastators

Donald Hamilton

1965

A Matt Helm novel.

"On a lonely heath in northern Scotland they recovered the body of the third agent sent to complete a tricky mission. He had died from bubonic plague. Somewhere on the moors was a half-crazed scientific genius who could kill millions, and it was Helm's job to get him, with the help of a beautiful American operative and a deadly Russian one."

The Betrayers

Donald Hamilton

1966

A Matt Helm novel.

"Matt Helm finds himself in Hawaii, trying to unhatch a plot of unrivalled viciousness. When an agent turns bad, nobody's business is private anymore, and when that agent decides to start a war, someone has to finish him—fast. Between the rogue agent and the stranger who insists she is his sister-in-law, this won't be a relaxing Pacific holiday."

The Menacers

Donald Hamilton

1968

A Matt Helm novel.

"Matt Helm is puzzled. He's been sent to Mexico to investigate the sighting of a flying saucer, but Helm doesn't believe in little green men. Then his Russian opposite number is shot in her hotel, but who did it? And why are the Mexican cops acting so tough? Time to track down the redhead who called in the sighting and get to the bottom of the case."

The Interlopers

Donald Hamilton

1969

A Matt Helm novel.

"This time Mac has gone too far. For Helm to impersonate a Communist courier to whom he bears no resemblance is suicide, and that isn't all. Someone wants to get the layout of the Alaskan North-west Coastal Defence System, but they aren't the good guys or the bad guys. So who the hell are they? And who is the mysterious Holz that Helm is meant to kill?"

The Poisoners

Donald Hamilton

1971

A Matt Helm novel.

"When Matt Helm is dispatched to Los Angeles to investigate the shooting of an agent, it isn't just an assignment - it's personal. To get the answers he wants means run-ins with two- bit hoods, a trio of beautiful women, a gang of drug traffickers, and his old friend Mr Soo, whose government has ideas about polluting America to death."

The Intriguers

Donald Hamilton

1973

A Matt Helm novel.

"Matt Helm is on vacation in Mexico with nothing on his mind except fishing, when some joker tries to shoot him in the back. Naturally it was no accident. When secret agents get shot at, it never is. So Helm has to go back to work. At least theres a bonus in the form of his bosss beautiful daughter, a playmate in peril."

The Intimidators

Donald Hamilton

1974

A Matt Helm novel.

"It was a double mission this time. Firstly, to terminate a top-notch enemy agent. Secondly, to locate the missing fiancée of a Texas oil millionaire, lost in the Bermuda Triangle. Somehow these two cases were connected, but it wasn't clear how until more high-profile types disappeared. They weren't dead, just part of a deadly little game."

The Terminators

Donald Hamilton

1975

A Matt Helm novel.

"When the big man in Washington assigned Matt Helm to ride shotgun on a top secret mission in Norway, Helm wanted to know why. But this was a need-to-know deal, at least until his partner a woman posing as his mistress was killed. Now Helm is mad, mad enough to blow the operation sky high."

The Retaliators

Donald Hamilton

1976

A Matt Helm novel.

"Matt Helm is unexpectedly rich, and he doesn't like it. Twenty thousand mysterious dollars appear in his bank account, but this is no time for celebration. Another secret agent with an unexplained surplus is murdered, and Helm figures he better work out who his 'benefactor' is before he becomes the next target."

The Terrorizers

Donald Hamilton

1977

A Matt Helm novel.

"The survivor of a plane crash wakes up in a hospital in Canada, his memory a blank. Then in walks Kitty, a gorgeous woman, who tells him that he is Paul Madden, a photographer, and her fiancé. Not bad. Except that a man on the phone keeps calling him Matt Helm. Things don’t add up. This can only mean trouble."

The Revengers

Donald Hamilton

1982

A Matt Helm novel.

"At a funeral of an old friend, Matt Helm takes a trip down memory lane and sparks a romance that he thought was safely in the past. But with old feelings resurfacing, other things Helm thought were buried are coming back to haunt him—a small-time hood in Mexico, a dirty drug deal, and a string of women that lead him into the ultimate compromising position."

The Annihilators

Donald Hamilton

1983

A Matt Helm novel.

"Matt Helm has got a good thing going with Elly. So a terrorist organization really have picked the wrong woman when they kidnap Elly in order to leverage Helm into carrying out an assassination. Soon, Helm will find himself back in Costa Verde - amidst the ensuing revolution - with one thing on his mind: revenge."

The Infiltrators

Donald Hamilton

1984

A Matt Helm novel.

"Beautiful, intelligent, fresh out of prison - Madeleine Ellershaw is Matt Helm’s latest case. She may have been imprisoned as a spy, but Helm soon realizes that Madeleine’s story isn’t so simple. He’s got to figure out why she took the rap for her husband nine years ago, what secrets are hiding in her past, and, most difficult of all: keep her alive."

The Detonators

Donald Hamilton

1985

A Matt Helm novel.

"A prim young lady needs a favor: help her father beat a bum drug rap. But when Dad's boat detonates outside Miami Harbor, Matt discovers that young Amy isn't as innocent as she looks. Lured to the Bahamas, he will discover an unlikely pack of fanatics hatching an explosive plan, and that daddy's little girl is surprisingly deadly."

The Vanishers

Donald Hamilton

1986

A Matt Helm novel.

"People are vanishing without a trace. And the disappearances are getting closer to home - the next likely target is Mac, Matt Helm's old boss. To get to the bottom of the mystery, Helm follows two beautiful and treacherous women who lead him all the way to his ancestral home - Sweden. With a coup from within the agency, and a terrorist threat from without, it's clear that nobody can be trusted."

The Demolishers

Donald Hamilton

1987

A Matt Helm novel.

"Matt Helm was aware of Bultman – a legendary assassin, the leader of a group of fanatical revolutionaries, an ambitious criminal – but he had no business with taking him down. Until now. Bultman blew up a restaurant on the Florida coast full of innocent people, including Helm's son. Now, it's very personal."

The Frighteners

Donald Hamilton

1989

A Matt Helm novel.

"No mission fazes Matt Helm, not even this one - to pose as an oil-rich Texas groom to a bride half his age. The aim: to pick up the trail of an illicit arms shipment in Mexico. If Matt fails, the country could burn in the inferno of revolution, right at America’s doorstep. And he doesn’t know that he’s not only the point man, he’s the number one target."

The Threateners

Donald Hamilton

1992

A Matt Helm novel.

"A ruthless South American drug lord has a plan to bring the United States to its knees. A group of renegade American agents has plans to smash the kingpin and his cartel, by any means necessary. Caught in the middle, Matt Helm’s got to do double duty to stop them both, and to protect a woman with information both sides would kill for."

The Damagers

Donald Hamilton

1993

A Matt Helm novel.

"Take a gorgeous companion for a leisurely sail on a beautiful yacht. Sounds like easy duty for Matt Helm, except that the last three captains of the yacht died under mysterious circumstances. Matt will tangle with a crew of dangerous women, a terrorist squad, and an elite organization of death-dealing specialists. He had better be ready, if he wants to stay alive."

Matt Helm: The War Years: A Pastiche

Keith Wease

2013

A Matt Helm novel.

"Matt Helm is a government assassin, working for a super-secret agency first formed during WWII to carry out assassinations in support of the war effort in Europe, and later continued against America's enemies. ….. This book is about his WWII experiences, from his initial recruitment into the agency, his training, and his missions during the war."