Nick Carter Books in Order

Missiles disappear from both Egypt and Israel, raising suspicions between the two countries. Nick Carter follows the trail toward Ethiopia, where a power-hungry Italian has built an armed stronghold with ambitions that threaten a wider war.

Loaned to the NSA for an apparently simple delivery, Nick Carter resents his courier assignment. The mission draws him into competing schemes involving American, Greek and Soviet intelligence services, making his role far less straightforward.

Nick Carter’s pursuit of an Albanian assassin leads toward a Canadian millionaire who finances violent political groups. Attempts on a manufacturer’s life complicate the investigation as Nick works to connect hired killing with the money behind it.

American and Soviet missiles strike unexpected targets, threatening to trigger war. Nick Carter tracks the interference to a scientist operating from a Mayan temple in the Yucatán, where a device can redirect the weapons.

A mysterious colonel brings together an Arab terrorist, an Israeli fighter and a woman trained by the IRA. Nick Carter must disrupt their alliance before coordinated attacks on major capitals advance its plans for domination.

As the Soviet premier prepares to visit America, an informer warns Nick Carter of an assassination plot. His investigation begins in Reno, where the warning and a trail of dead women demand urgent answers.

After the President and Vice President are assassinated, terrorists kidnap the Speaker of the House. Nick Carter works with an Israeli agent to recover him before demands for money and changes to Israeli arms supplies come due.

A gangster’s daughter is kidnapped, and the ransom involves secret weapons as well as money. Nick Carter becomes entangled with an arms dealer and competing criminal interests while trying to untangle the dangerous exchange.

AXE learns that terrorists plan to crash airliners into major financial centers within forty-eight hours. Nick Carter must locate and stop the attackers before their coordinated assault brings destruction to the cities they have targeted.

The KGB plans to crash the American economy by manipulating a wealthy Boston family and forcing banks to sell their stocks together. Nick Carter must identify the infiltrator before the coordinated financial attack begins.

A Soviet defector carrying valuable technical knowledge enters Turkey but disappears before reaching Istanbul. Nick Carter investigates the missing man, following a dangerous trail where promised help and a possible prisoner exchange offer uncertain leads.

An assignment undertaken for British intelligence sends Nick Carter toward the mountain borders of Greece, Albania and Yugoslavia. Political assassinations and a suspected traitor at the American embassy in Athens complicate what first looked like a routine mission.

Nick Carter’s mission to retrieve microfilm in Saigon begins with the contact’s murder. More killings follow in Hong Kong, and when he tries to report back, AXE has vanished, leaving him to investigate alone.

A murdered reporter and a kidnapped woman lead Nick Carter toward a former Nazi’s drug empire in South America. Working with American intelligence and law enforcement, he investigates a criminal operation with dangerous political ambitions.

An alliance of terrorist organizations plans to cripple the world economy, and Nick Carter becomes a target. When his own weapons are used in murders, he must confront the conspiracy while trying to clear himself.

An AXE agent is murdered in Trinidad after investigating an environmental protest linked to the Organization of Industrial Limitation. Nick Carter follows the dying agent’s clue to learn whether the campaign conceals a deadly operation.

Nick Carter guards the American President during a peace initiative threatened by assassinations. At a Grand Prix race in Belgium, the President’s son and a militant leader complicate efforts to distinguish diversions from the real threat.

A disappearance at an embassy party draws Nick Carter into a case involving a gang and a deadly spore. With Nick and his chief among the targets, the investigation reaches toward a threat connected to a space mission.

Nick Carter goes to Budapest to help a scientist and his daughter escape with an energy breakthrough. The operation’s cover is compromised, and a trail involving coded clues and an ebony cross complicates their dangerous departure.

Sent to Hong Kong to buy a valuable list, Nick Carter finds the seller murdered and the intermediary badly injured. Killers now pursue him too.

A nuclear physicist vanishes with stolen plutonium as Pamplona celebrates its annual festival. Nick Carter investigates signs of radiation sickness and an atomic blackmail plot, with help from an AXE agent whose competence he doubts.

Attacks on American oil companies lead Nick Carter to Nassau, where a revolutionary movement threatens a coup. With two AXE agents already dead, he must find the mastermind before sabotage further cripples America’s energy reserves.

Students trying to help people escape East Berlin become tools in an assassin’s scheme. Nick Carter must stop a plot against the American president before a killing at the Berlin Wall destroys the fragile international détente.

A senator’s son disappears in Hawaii, sending Nick Carter into the island’s surfing community. His search uncovers a drug trade with fatal consequences, turning a missing-person investigation into a mission against the people supplying it.

German cancer researcher Karl Nordheim disappears, and a letter bomb kills his assistant. Nick Carter investigates why rival intelligence services want the scientist, following a cryptic note and a dying man’s mention of a cobra.

Warning letters precede a series of deadly airliner crashes. Nick Carter investigates four generals seeking revenge for wartime humiliations, but their engineering expertise and resources leave him trapped while the campaign against civilian aviation continues.

Vietnam veteran and former prisoner Keith Martin disappears as senior North Vietnamese officials are murdered. Nick Carter must establish whether the events are connected and stop the killings before blame falls on the United States.

Nick Carter travels to Jamaica to find Jamba, the elusive organizer of a guns-for-marijuana exchange. The operation supplies weapons to an island insurgency and drugs to American buyers, but identifying its leader proves far from straightforward.

Replacing a missing AXE courier in Paris, Nick Carter follows a trail of murders toward the Ulrich formula. Its promise of a decisive defense makes it valuable to competing powers willing to kill for possession.

A PEMEX discovery could transform America’s oil supply, but the survey team is murdered and its chart stolen. Nick Carter has four days to recover the document while terrorists and guerrillas pursue their own interests.

Nick Carter’s latest assignment requires a convincing break with AXE. Working under deep cover, he must find Redolmo, the organizer of an international drug operation whose location and links to foreign powers remain uncertain.

Women devoted to Count Draco leave his resort to help blackmail officials across Europe. Nick Carter investigates the organization behind their activities, trying to uncover how an apparently idyllic retreat supports a wider operation of coercion.

The Syrian Liberation Army plans to explode a tanker in New York Harbor. Nick Carter relies on double agent Miriam Kamel to reach its desert camp, unsure whether his guide will help him or betray him.

Sent to Central America after an agent’s warning, Nick Carter enters a civil war fought by three competing sides. He must prevent powerful Red-Eye missiles from changing hands while alliances shift and his contact is murdered.

After AXE reporter Benny Chang is killed, Nick Carter takes his place in Singapore. Investigating the mysterious Day of the Dingo, he follows clues toward guerrillas in Malaya while questioning the loyalties of fellow correspondents.

A bank robbery produces fingerprints belonging to a supposedly dead CIA agent. Nick Carter follows connections among former operatives and a murdered journalist, racing toward Havana to prevent an assassination that could destabilize the region.

The chief scientist at a secret military testing site near Las Vegas is found dead. Nick Carter investigates the compromised Project Eighth Card with help from the scientist’s widow, while Soviet and Chinese interests complicate the danger.

After Nick Carter foils a plague attack, the terrorist group NOTCH turns its attention to AXE. Its plan to expose the agency and kill its operatives puts David Hawk, Carter’s own boss, directly in danger.

Nick Carter receives an unusual assignment: keep senior KGB agent Karl Bartov alive without revealing that he is protecting him. The mission takes him from Barcelona toward Warsaw, where secrecy makes an already difficult task more dangerous.

A Soviet electronics expert jams America’s naval defenses, letting submarines supply South American guerrillas and observe American vessels. Nick Carter follows the man through Florida’s smuggling routes toward Brazil before the breach causes further damage.

Escorting a young woman out of Mexico should be manageable, until Nick Carter loses AXE’s support and David Hawk disappears. Acting alone, he confronts a trafficking ring whose connections to oil interests make the mission politically sensitive.

Nick Carter heads to the remote China-Russia border to recover Lidanium from a fallen meteorite. The metal’s ability to absorb radioactivity makes it a coveted prize, and rival interests turn the expedition into a dangerous race.

Recovering from injuries, Nick Carter accepts a backup assignment that should give him time to heal. Instead, two assassins target him, one driven by personal revenge and the other determined to remove AXE’s leading agent.

Terrorists cross the Texas-Mexico border disguised among migrants, preparing an assassination mission against American political leaders. Nick Carter must identify the infiltrators and the people helping them before the plot disrupts the country’s government.

After Tito’s death, Nick Carter investigates forged documents threatening Yugoslavia’s independence. With a dissident’s daughter as his companion, he crosses toward Dubrovnik while Croatian militants and the secret police make every stage of the mission dangerous.

After a man-made earthquake devastates San Diego, Nick Carter must identify the technical genius behind it before Los Angeles is hit. Two suspects have the means to trigger further destruction, but both deny the technology exists.

A flood of gold onto the black market threatens to destabilize the American economy. Nick Carter investigates the source south of the border while an AXE agent’s murder and David Hawk’s disappearance complicate his assignment.

Four diplomats are murdered, and Nick Carter’s only lead is killed too. In Paris, he investigates a model working as an assassin, racing to stop another killing before an approaching oil summit becomes a trigger for war.

Nick Carter assumes the identity of Liam McDaniel, a dead assassin who looked just like him. Sent to Africa, he must discover the intended target and the employers behind a conspiracy with ambitions of empire.

A Soviet weapon harnesses solar energy to attack Chinese military posts and American communications. After sabotage strikes NASA, Nick Carter travels into Soviet territory, working with a deep-cover American agent to stop the escalating threat.

Nick Carter must recover a canister of radioactive strontium-90 aboard a Japanese tanker bound for California. The cargo is part of a Soviet operation, and the possibility that Carter is already contaminated adds urgency to his mission.

An escaped American prisoner reveals that more than 150 missing servicemen remain captive in North Vietnam. Nick Carter poses as a monk to organize their rescue before the prisoners can be used to blackmail Washington.

Soviet chess champion Alex Belnikov offers vital information in exchange for asylum. Nick Carter has twenty-seven days to master chess before a tournament in Switzerland, where protecting the defector becomes a deadly contest beyond the board.

Nick Carter learns that an enemy has developed a weapon capable of firing from a submarine thousands of miles away. Its precision threatens individual leaders, while its destructive power could also wipe out cities and armies.

Biochemist Bron Faber plans to use genetically altered tsetse flies to seize power in Africa. Nick Carter needs help from Faber’s wife to locate the laboratory before its engineered diseases become a threat to the wider world.

Artificial earthquakes strike major countries, and the United States is next on the Earth Shaker’s list. Nick Carter follows a thin lead from the Mediterranean through Paris to Mexico City, trying to stop the attacks.

Sent to Copenhagen to monitor Soviet submarines, Nick Carter discovers that a nuclear-armed vessel has vanished. When an American submarine disappears too, his assignment becomes a search for whoever controls their combined destructive power.

An American research camp at McMurdo Sound loses contact with the outside world after a series of deaths. Nick Carter investigates the military genetics project, confronting evidence of a lethal nerve gas in Antarctica’s isolation.

An old friend asks Nick Carter to find her brother, who has joined the Church of the Final Reward. When she disappears too, he follows the trail into the Amazon, fearing the organization plans mass suicide.

An explosion at a Hiroshima toy factory sends Nick Carter to Japan. He must stop the Sons of August Six, a group plotting devastating attacks across America, before their revenge becomes a catastrophe.

A notebook containing a powerful thermonuclear weapon formula surfaces in Monaco. Nick Carter joins a deadly race against ten rival agents, each representing a country determined to seize the secrets before anyone else does.

Posing as an industrial attaché, Nick Carter investigates businessman Constantin Braga's plan for global domination through laser blackmail. Corporate intrigue and shifting allegiances leave him unsure which former friends or enemies he can trust.

Terrorists seize the United States embassy in the Dominican Republic and hold the American ambassador hostage. Nick Carter's rescue mission draws him into international intrigue, where freeing the captive requires confronting a larger hidden plot.

Nick Carter poses as a private investigator to protect an American scientist at an Athens summit. Attacks on the man and his wife lead Nick to question whether his own government wants the scientist dead.

Nick Carter investigates whether respected Geneva banker Sprague DeGourcy is the notorious political assassin El Cazador. Before he can settle the question, the suspected killer turns the hunt around and targets Nick himself.

Nazi war criminals target Israel's foreign minister David Ben Weisman, a survivor who escaped their grasp during the war. Nick Carter must prevent his capture from serving a plot to establish a Fourth Reich.

False alarms and an unexplained attack leave Nick Carter puzzled until a Japanese woman brings a key to AXE's computer network. The trail leads to an electronics genius preparing a deadly confrontation at his seaside castle.

Retiring freelance spy Ricardo Mendoza plans to publish a manuscript exposing secrets that could cripple several governments. Nick Carter must secure it before publication, entering a scramble among nations desperate to control what Mendoza reveals.

To infiltrate a Soviet plot, Nick Carter undergoes mental conditioning that makes him believe he is a disgruntled agent ready to defect. The scheme works too well, leaving his own country determined to stop him.

A Russian spy's arrival alongside an important American missile project sends Nick Carter investigating. With a journalist's help, he pursues evidence of treason among officials, only to find himself facing arrest on the same charge.

A stolen vial of engineered bacteria draws rival intelligence services and terrorist groups toward Istanbul. Nick Carter must recover the weapon and find its creator before any of the competing factions can unleash mass death.

A murder investigation takes Nick Carter to Argentina and the empire of former Nazi general Marc Ziegler. With help from Ziegler's secretary, he uncovers a nuclear arsenal and must stop the general's expansionist plans.

AXE's first Killmaster has turned against his fellow agents. After surviving an attack, Nick Carter must confront an insider who knows the organization and is hunting its operatives.

An impostor using Nick Carter's name is murdering Soviet commissars, and the KGB wants the real Nick dead. He must stop the killer before the deception exposes AXE and sparks a wider international crisis.

A model disappears before her international debut, sending Nick Carter on a search that grows increasingly dangerous. Her sister is a high-level scientist, and terrorists see the kidnapping as a way to obtain valuable secrets.

The Death Dealer is a KGB assassin who has already defeated Nick Carter. When a Polish dissident defects with clues to the killer's identity, Nick must uncover the truth before his enemy launches another mission.

Someone is murdering intelligence couriers and stealing their secret documents. Nick Carter poses as a courier to lure out the killers, joining a victim's daughter in an investigation that points toward a missing scientist.

AXE uses a woman resembling Nikolai Kobelev's daughter to lure the dangerous KGB officer out of Russia. Nick Carter's trap turns against him, leaving him fighting to protect two American agents as well as himself.

Nick Carter must prevent Soviet forces from seizing the Khyber Pass through their invasion of Afghanistan. Seeking allies, he turns to a religious death cult in the Hindu Kush, where reaching its leader brings fresh danger.

Nick Carter searches the Australian Outback for a hidden Russian radar base. A suspicious plane crash strands him and an anthropologist in the desert, where surviving without supplies becomes as urgent as completing the mission.

Former AXE agent Russell Chapman runs an Alaskan school for assassins and sends his trainees after old colleagues. Nick Carter must reach the remote stronghold and stop the teacher before his campaign claims more lives.

Nick Carter must undermine Brazil's ruler and his Soviet-backed potential successor without revealing American involvement. Using multiple disguises, he works to turn the two men against each other, knowing exposure could end his mission and life.

A Caribbean island's valuable mineral deposits make it the prize in an American-Soviet power struggle. Nick Carter enters a bloody civil war to confront a Soviet agent and prevent the island falling under Russian control.

Religious coups threaten the Middle East while a mysterious man claims to be the Mahdi. Nick Carter investigates the violence, teaming up with a KGB agent when treachery obstructs his search for the forces behind it.

Businessman Juan Rojas amasses a fortune in international casinos while gathering mercenary leaders around him. With Carmella Perez's help, Nick Carter follows him from one gambling center to another to uncover and stop his plans.

An attack on a secret American satellite station takes Nick Carter to a remote Pacific island. Going undercover, he follows signs that someone is manipulating local hostility to destroy the base, while an unexpected enemy closes in.

Eight hijacked nuclear missiles send Nick Carter after terrorists from the Yucatán to the Pyrenees. A mysterious Basque millionairess complicates the recovery mission, turning stolen weapons into a threat of nuclear destruction across Europe.

Terrorists hijack an American nuclear submarine and head toward Russia, prompting Nick Carter to pursue them. Attempts on his life and interference from officials suggest a deeper scheme intended to provoke a nuclear war.

Los Bravos, a Latin American guerrilla organization, has obtained an atomic bomb and plans to destroy a city. Nick Carter must infiltrate the group, neutralize the weapon, and stop its campaign before thousands die.

Nick Carter investigates a Soviet scheme to undermine the American military by getting soldiers addicted to heroin. Stopping the operation means risking his own life against enemies using drugs as a weapon in the Cold War.

Talks on German reunification face a Soviet hard-liner plot to assassinate a Russian delegate. Nick Carter must infiltrate the KGB and the highest circles of Soviet power to prevent the murder from destroying the negotiations.

The name Itzamna appears on a dead Cuban agent's microdot, in KGB communications, and on a map from a stolen jet. Nick Carter must discover why an ancient Mayan god links these disturbing clues.

A nuclear explosion at a Saudi Arabian oil field appears to implicate Israel. Nick Carter investigates the real culprits while evading killers and racing to prevent another attack that could set off a world war.

An assassination attempt threatens Sheik Menbali just as he prepares to sign a peace treaty. Nick Carter infiltrates the ruler's entourage to identify the would-be killer before another attack destroys the chance of an agreement.

The KGB is gathering terrorist organizations for a secret meeting, and Nick Carter intends to infiltrate it. Without knowing its time or location, he turns to a double agent and an arms dealer for help.

An Aeroflot flight carries stolen American secrets toward Moscow, and Nick Carter is determined to stop it. Pursuing the plane brings him into deadly conflict with KGB agents before its cargo can trigger an international showdown.

An attack on a NATO base leaves generals dead and a scientist missing. Nick Carter follows the evidence to Bulgaria, but the CIA denies the incident, leaving him to investigate the stolen aircraft alone.

Raina wants revenge for her father's death and lures Nick Carter into a trap in Tangier. As poison gas threatens him, he learns her group plans to hack NATO computers and trigger a nuclear attack.

Soviet forces target Namibia's diamond mines for gems essential to advanced laser weapons. Nick Carter faces a struggle over resources whose military value extends far beyond their price.