Nick Carter Books in Order

Six AXE agents have been murdered in Rio de Janeiro, sending Nick Carter undercover among the city's wealthy residents. Working with fellow agent Rosalind Adler, he searches for the connection behind a string of brutal deaths.

Nick Carter pursues master spy Judas from Argentina to West Berlin, where missing scientists suggest a larger operation. His hunt for an old enemy becomes a mission to uncover a plot to kidnap valuable scientific experts.

A stewardess asks Nick Carter to investigate the plane crash blamed on her dead fiancé. An explosive murder during their journey reveals a wider threat, drawing the AXE agent into a dangerous international conspiracy.

Bombings and harassment threaten to destabilize the newly independent African republic of Nyanga. Sent in as a special American ambassador, Nick Carter must discover who is provoking conflict between a government and its foreign allies.

A coded message reaches a widow in North Vietnam, drawing Nick Carter into a struggle to retrieve it. Posing as a medical observer in Saigon, he follows the trail amid competing intelligence interests and personal danger.

After foiling attempts to assassinate Khrushchev at the United Nations, Nick Carter is sent to Japan. Working with a Soviet agent, he investigates a Chinese spy network suspected of trying to turn the two superpowers against each other.

An AXE agent dies while trying to reach Cuba, leaving the word 'star' as his final clue. Nick Carter investigates a mission whose stakes include a weapon capable of provoking a new world war.

Nick Carter goes to Geneva to steal a jeweled tiger from Hermann Göring's private bank vault. Former German and Japanese officers want the same prize, creating a contest involving divided keys, hidden identities, and competing loyalties.

Federal narcotics agents are being murdered in Turkey, and Nick Carter receives orders to strike at those protecting a heroin network. Arriving in Istanbul undercover, he looks for a way into the syndicate before its defenses close around him.

A missing American agent resurfaces in Moscow carrying secret transcripts that threaten to worsen relations between China and the Soviet Union. Nick Carter faces an intelligence crisis in which stolen information could have far-reaching political consequences.

A CIA agent's death in Florida leads Nick Carter to an international terrorist hiding among Cuban refugees. Disguised as a fellow operative, Carter heads into the Keys to draw out assassins and expose their operation.

A frightened CIA agent confides in Nick Carter before leaving Hong Kong for a mission inside China. Carter's connection to him attracts surveillance and violent warnings, drawing him into the reach of the Red Tiger society.

German scientists are developing a secret rocket in a guarded North Vietnamese camp. Nick Carter must impersonate an expected expert, infiltrate their operation, and neutralize a project whose hidden payload threatens the safety of space missions.

Violent outbursts among American college students and the murder of a university official suggest a hidden connection. Nick Carter poses as a visiting professor at Berkeley to investigate suspected drug-induced mind control and the people behind it.

A kidnapped microbiologist's discoveries could either help feed the world or cause mass starvation. Nick Carter must find the scientist's daughter in Europe before Chinese agents use her to force her father to continue their work.

A nuclear explosion over the North Pole precedes a terrorist ultimatum to European governments. Nick Carter travels to Scotland, where a wealthy island owner and a militant group may hold the key to stopping the threat.

Nick Carter joins widows of rebels fighting for a hidden treasure left by the Dominican dictator Trujillo. A Chinese intelligence officer wants the same riches to fund an operation that could reshape Haiti's political future.

A British scientist's secret drug could transform soldiers' endurance, and rival spy networks want her knowledge. Nick Carter is assigned to retrieve her from a Spanish holiday with her Russian lover before competitors seize her.

A retired AXE employee with a photographic memory disappears after apparently murdering his wife. Nick Carter follows him to Europe, where rival intelligence services also want access to the classified information stored in the missing man's mind.

Secret information points to a plan to ignite war in the Middle East. Working with an Israeli intelligence officer, Nick Carter follows a former Nazi organizing raids across borders and tries to stop the planned violence.

A captured American soldier has been altered and brainwashed to believe he is Nick Carter. When the double murders an AXE contact and threatens the India-Pakistan ceasefire, the real Carter must follow his trail.

Counterfeit American money points to a Mexican political movement with territorial ambitions and possible Chinese backing. Nick Carter lands secretly on the Mexican coast to investigate the operation, tracing forged currency toward the people directing it.

A lost American hydrogen bomb lies beneath the Adriatic, and Yugoslavia plans to use it to pressure Italy. Nick Carter teams up with an undercover contact in Venice to find the intelligence officer who knows its location.

An old ally asks Nick Carter to support resistance inside China, where a vast tunnel and a powerful bomb threaten neighboring India. Carter must enter the country and disrupt the project before it can be used.

An AXE agent dies while investigating a Greek agency sponsoring American visa applications. Nick Carter infiltrates its activities and discovers that prospective immigrants may be receiving training for an espionage operation without understanding its purpose.

A security test at a Swedish underground base exposes German technicians and a covert project. Nick Carter investigates a neo-Nazi count while scientists struggle with a laser defense system linked to mysterious, lethal exposure.

Leaks are undermining American military operations and diplomacy, and AXE traces them to a hidden paymaster. Nick Carter joins an international tour suspected of moving secrets and money, searching its passengers for the person responsible.

A murdered CIA agent points Nick Carter toward a pornography ring operating from Budapest. He follows a recruiter using a traveling theater company as cover, trying to penetrate a network already willing to kill investigators.

Chinese gold shipments, troop movements, and a British businessman's secret meetings suggest a large covert operation. Nick Carter travels to Puerto Rico to meet the man's wife, but the effort to obtain evidence quickly turns deadly.

Power failures, pollution incidents, and strange lights trouble the United States. Nick Carter joins a Soviet investigator and another AXE agent to examine a nuclear facility, where missing scientists and altered identities suggest an organized threat.

An independent spy network in Europe has obtained American nuclear plans, drawing AXE's attention. Nick Carter enters the investigation, facing a threat built around secrets whose disclosure could place far more than individual agents at risk.

At a secret Chinese nuclear site, its leader's hatred of America and the Soviet Union creates a dangerous situation. A woman with her own motives deepens the threat confronting Nick Carter in this espionage mission.

Four influential Americans die suddenly, each linked to the same oil and arms interests. Nick Carter poses as an executive to enter their social world and investigate women whose connections may point to an organized assassination operation.

Blackmail involving a Portuguese princess draws Nick Carter into competing political schemes. Posing as her husband, he travels toward Macau on a mission against Chinese counterintelligence, where alliances and personal leverage make the assignment increasingly hazardous.

An Apollo mission explodes before launch, and its suspected saboteur is soon found dead. Nick Carter investigates the apparent conspiracy, then impersonates an injured astronaut to draw out another attacker before a replacement mission takes off.

A British intelligence defector is believed to be planning sabotage in Japan, while his former colleagues want him dead. Nick Carter travels to Tokyo, where an old teacher's request draws him into the same dangerous affair.

Nick Carter's old enemy Judas sells his services to Chinese intelligence in an Indonesia torn by rebellion. Carter must confront the ruthless spy in a mission where local conflict carries stakes for a much wider world.

A wealthy neo-Nazi organization is preparing to bring a new leader to power. Nick Carter pursues the threat with a woman as his only lead, searching for the man who intends to become another Hitler.

Nick Carter rushes to Rio to help an industrialist whose life has been threatened, but arrives too late. Proving the apparent accident was murder draws him toward a broader operation connected to Fidel Castro.

A young AXE agent disappears while investigating a guarded pharmaceutical plant in Colorado. Nick Carter takes over the inquiry, confronting a secret operation involving synthetic men whose unusual resilience creates a new kind of danger.

Seven scientists in different countries suffer a mysterious condition that leaves their minds incapacitated. AXE sends Nick Carter to discover the cause, following an international trail before the unknown threat can claim more victims.

Nick Carter investigates reports that Che Guevara is alive despite the world's belief that he is dead. Two women sharing a dangerous secret complicate a mission that draws Carter into the revolutionary's supposed survival.

Nick Carter travels to Nepal as a royal adviser promotes closer ties with China. Claims of supernatural power and deadly attacks in the mountains obscure a political scheme Carter must investigate before it gains control.

Two missions take Nick Carter into different dangers: stopping a drug operation linked to Martin Bormann in Peking, and investigating an AXE betrayal. The second assignment forces him to examine whether an old friend has turned traitor.

Nick Carter goes undercover as a tour guide in Rhodesia to investigate gold smuggling to China. His search for the operation's contacts raises the possibility that his old enemy Judas is directing the trade.

Nick Carter's mission takes him into the Amazon, where he faces a woman trained to kill. Violence spreads through the jungle as Carter's confrontation with his opponent turns the tropical setting into a dangerous battleground.

When an AXE agent disappears in Morocco, Nick Carter travels to Casablanca to investigate. His search leads toward an Arab leader operating from the mountains, connecting the missing man's fate with a growing threat.

A vacation in Hong Kong ends when Nick Carter is urgently summoned to Malaysia. Searching for a rebel leader called the Red Cobra, he joins a woman on a dangerous manhunt through the jungle.

Nick Carter heads to Hong Kong to find Professor Loo, whose scientific knowledge could shield China from nuclear attack. An enemy spy's demands complicate his effort to prevent that knowledge from shifting the international balance.

Terrorists threaten Hawaii as dangerous fumes rise from a supposedly dormant volcano. The death of a Japanese intelligence officer and a desperate message in Honolulu give Nick Carter clues to a plot against the islands.

A powerful transmitter broadcasts a mixture of communist propaganda and pornography. AXE assigns Nick Carter to locate and destroy it, confronting an operation intended to manipulate audiences and threaten America through a new kind of attack.

Atomic submarines disappear in the Caribbean, and recurring enemy Judas demands a vast ransom for an experimental vessel and its crew. Nick Carter must reach his island operation and stop the weapon behind the captures.

In Haiti, Nick Carter confronts a dictator and a violent voodoo cult amid a plot threatening nuclear catastrophe. An assassin, a defecting scientist and a woman called the Black Swan complicate his investigation.

The Secret Snake Society plans a takeover in the Mekong Delta while claiming to serve Cambodian independence. Nick Carter investigates whether its leaders actually seek control for Cambodia or are advancing China's interests.

A touring ruby hides a microdot containing a stolen American military secret. Nick Carter must prevent the jewel reaching Russia, working with an accomplice while an assassin and sophisticated security systems threaten his mission.

Nick Carter assumes the identity of a prominent Soviet assassin to enter Moscow. His assignment is to locate and destroy a new Soviet weapon, with his borrowed identity providing access while making exposure dangerous.

A mind-altering drug becomes the weapon in a scheme to blackmail the world. Nick Carter must uncover the operation behind it, confronting a new form of enslavement that threatens people through control of their minds.

A scientist steals a vial of lethal virus and threatens to release it unless nations destroy their biological weapons. With world leaders gathering at the United Nations, Nick Carter races to find him before the ultimatum becomes catastrophe.

Military exercises involving Australia and its allies end disastrously, raising fears of sabotage. Nick Carter investigates servicemen linked to a Townsville pub, following connections that suggest the failures may be part of a deliberate operation.

Americans celebrated as heroes have been scientifically conditioned to become assassins. Nick Carter must stop them before they reach the president, pursuing a threat whose public reputation hides the purpose others have programmed into them.

Nick Carter investigates communist infiltration of the American student movement. Unrest on college campuses becomes the battleground for an intelligence operation, forcing Carter to trace the forces using student protest to undermine the country's educational institutions.

A secret Soviet spy plane vanishes from a New York airport, and Russia blames America. Nick Carter has only a dying man's fragmentary words to find the aircraft before the confrontation escalates into missile attacks.

Intelligence reports reveal a Chinese installation hidden deep beneath Arctic ice. Nick Carter must find and destroy the base before it can be used to gain global power, facing dangerous conditions and hostile forces.

Posing as a Mafia killer, Nick Carter infiltrates the organization in Palermo to stop heroin shipments to Saigon. AXE-trained Tanya helps him maintain his cover, but discovery would expose him to the syndicate's code of revenge.

An AXE courier carrying microfilm of Soviet fighter-plane plans is murdered in Cairo. Nick Carter must recover the film and find the killer, working with an Egyptian Interpol agent against a dangerous underworld syndicate.

A threat against the American vice president and Venezuela's president sends Nick Carter to Caracas. Investigating security at an international forum brings him into a KGB operation that puts his own independence at risk.

The murders of senior British ministers are followed by an extortion demand threatening more killings. Nick Carter joins the investigation, pursuing a lead from an antiques smuggler that reaches back to a wartime commando unit.

A message recovered from a plane crash reveals plans to assassinate Spain's ruler, General Franco. Nick Carter must track the professional killer known as Werewolf before the plot can turn political tension into a crisis.

Nick Carter searches the Yugoslav mountains for a white wolf carrying a coded nuclear secret beneath its skin. Resistance fighters and hostile authorities complicate his efforts to recover the message left by a dead AXE agent.

Nick Carter travels to Chile to deliver a new bulletproof vest to a Soviet minister. The apparently simple assignment draws him into a coup that could endanger South America and wreck fragile Soviet-American cooperation.

Soviet missiles have again been placed in the Caribbean, giving Nick Carter a mission to destroy them. Assassins sent after him turn the operation into a race to reach the weapons while keeping himself alive.

An AXE informant is found in the Tiber after reporting suspicions about a spy film being made in Rome. Nick Carter investigates the production, trying to discover why the man's information led to his death.

A Mafia drug lord wants to expose the syndicate after his daughter dies from a heroin overdose. Nick Carter and a Mexican agent travel to Spain to secure his evidence before the Mob silences him.

A kidnapped scientist, a Turkish double agent working as a KGB assassin and a master criminal form a dangerous intelligence puzzle. Nick Carter must unravel their connections to understand the plot and stop it.

Nick Carter receives orders to kill former atomic scientist Knox Warnow. Unknown to Carter, a device implanted in Warnow's chest will detonate bombs across American cities if his heart stops, making the assignment itself a threat.

American defector Dr. Zeno creates the Omega Mutation as part of a plan to destroy his homeland. Nick Carter must confront the microbiologist's scheme before his scientific work becomes a weapon against the United States.

Nick Carter and a female ally confront KAN, a force of trained assassins targeting Americans. Their assignment pits them against killers equipped for sudden, efficient attacks, with murdered AXE personnel revealing the scale of the danger.

A friend's suspicious death alerts Nick Carter to a planned coup in Greece. His investigation points toward a wealthy businessman, but a kidnapping and substitution complicate his effort to identify the men directing the conspiracy.

Ordinary men are being transformed into suicide assassins, carrying out sudden attacks across the world. Nick Carter must discover who controls them and stop the operation before its carefully directed killings claim more victims.

An army of killers recruited in Sicily is being smuggled into America for a war within the underworld. AXE sends Nick Carter to infiltrate the Mafia and reach its leading don before the violence spreads.

Nick Carter investigates Topcon, a private intelligence network operating across Europe. Its elusive leader uses violence to conceal his identity and protect the sprawling organization.

The American wife of a powerful Arab ruler is kidnapped by rival terrorists. Nick Carter has only hours to find the woman known as Silver Falcon before her disappearance threatens United States security.

Nick Carter poses as a Turkish drug dealer to investigate the Mafia’s supply routes into America. An AXE agent has already died on the assignment, leaving Nick to penetrate a dangerous international operation.

A colonel hidden in the Nicaraguan jungle has developed a weapon that can freeze rain and devastate Central America. Nick Carter investigates the remote base as a Soviet agent pursues the same dangerous technology.

A Greek agent working behind the Iron Curtain wants to escape. Nick Carter and AXE must help an old friend get out of dangerous territory.

On the French Riviera, Nick Carter spots a former lover he believed dead. The encounter draws him into a scheme to monopolize the world’s gold.

Terrorists prepare a major attack in Italy while the world still reels from violence at the Olympics. Nick Carter must investigate before another massacre occurs.

Bombings in Calcutta draw Nick Carter into a mission tied to Cold War politics. As he investigates the attacks, a local outbreak of violence becomes a problem with consequences beyond the city itself.

Nick Carter travels to India as diplomatic deception threatens nuclear war. His investigation brings him up against assassins, a religious cult and a vengeful warlord whose weapon could turn a regional conflict into catastrophe.

A billionaire recluse suddenly returns to public view, commanding extensive corporate holdings. Nick Carter must establish whether the returning tycoon is genuine or an impostor.

A hotel billionaire wants protection from a Mafia boss, while the gangster wants help clearing his name. Nick Carter must untangle their competing claims and discover who controls an enormous international heroin operation.

Nick Carter is sent into Africa to eliminate a traitor responsible for mass murder. With three possible suspects and orders to kill them all, he faces a mission complicated by uncertainty about his target.

A pay train disappears from a section of track watched at both ends, leaving the railroad with an apparently impossible theft. Nick Carter investigates how the missing train could have vanished despite the observers.

An assassin called Judas is hired to kill the Pope, drawing Nick Carter into a mission in Rome. The threat poses a personal puzzle because Nick believes he killed the same assassin years earlier.

AXE protects the threatened Secretary of State with a lookalike. Nick Carter faces a further deception when the would-be assassins start posing as AXE agents.

The kidnapping of a nuclear scientist sends Nick Carter after information vital to Western security. A murdered merchant and his puzzling last words provide clues as Nick follows the trail toward the missing scientist.

A stolen NATO nuclear missile could turn turmoil in a small North African republic into disaster. Nick Carter has six days to locate and destroy it, working alone in a country already gripped by violence.

An AXE agent and a Mafia informant are murdered, leaving Nick Carter to trace missing money and a hidden witness. His search takes him into organized crime, where a woman in hiding may hold crucial answers.

Arab terrorists seize ten wealthy hostages and demand ransom, creating an international crisis. Nick Carter must find a way to reach the captives and free them while confronting the gang that holds their lives hostage.

A United States senator’s children are kidnapped, and their captors demand an enormous ransom in diamonds. Nick Carter carries the payment toward Nepal, where the rescue mission intersects with plans for political upheaval in China.