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Post by dem bones on Jun 1, 2008 14:33:42 GMT
Nick Carter - The Mark Of Cosa Nostra (Tandem, 1972) Blurb: Assuming the identity of a cold-blooded Cosa Nostra killer, Nick Carter finds himself on the way to Palermo to infiltrate the Mafia. Using false papers, real bullets and the aid of an AXE-trained blonde named Tanya, his mission is to stop the flow of heroin to Saigon - a Chicom plot to demoralise American troops in Vietnam as well as to control organised crime in the US.
But playing the part of a Mafia Don has big drawbacks, like being found out. And when that happens to Nick, he is marked for inescapable death by the macabre Mafia code of vengeance. "... he is marked for inescapable death"? I'm not sure it's going to be all that "inescapable"! Picked this up for minor 'badly posed cover' potential on recent excursion to Notting Hill with the venerable pulphack. Once I'd got it home, somehow it didn't look so bonkers but .... well, it is kinda psychedelic and I like her skirt! I might even read this one as I'm kind of taken by a spy troubling to name to his favourite weapons. There's Wilhelmina, the stripped-down Luger, Hugo the thin stiletto and .... Pierre. "Pierre, my tiny gas bomb, resting comfortably between my legs like a third testicle, ready to release it's super deadly gas within five seconds after I twisted the two halves and got rid of it ...."
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Post by jkdunham on Jun 1, 2008 14:49:04 GMT
"Pierre, my tiny gas bomb, resting comfortably between my legs like a third testicle ...." Can't help feeling that 'comfortably' isn't really the right adverb... |
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Post by dem bones on Jun 1, 2008 16:05:45 GMT
Can't help feeling that 'comfortably' isn't really the right adverb... Relax, Steve. A gas grenade stuffed down the front of your trousers is perfectly safe provided you know what you're about: "Pierre never gave me much time to get the hell away, but his work was sudden and permanent." Here's another one which has perhaps more of a Vault interest as there are shades of Harold Ward's classic The House Of The Living Dead about these zombie assassins programmed to obey a dog whistle. Nick Carter - The Mind Killers (Tandem, 1971, 1972) They were all-American heroes, scientifically programmed. They were walking, thinking human timebombs, unique killers who would leave no trace after the job was done. They had been carefully chosen for this assignment — each a super-patriot, above suspicion in espionage.
Now they were ordered to Washington to assassinate the President. Nick Carter's mission was to stop them — if he could destroy the mechanism used to brainwash the men ... if he could unmask the leader behind the plan ... if he could outrace mankind's most destructive weapon.These were both "produced" by the ubiquitous Lyle Kenyon Engel and "dedicated to the Men of the Secret Services of the United States of America". |
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Post by Calenture on Jun 1, 2008 17:10:22 GMT
Here's another one which has perhaps more of a Vault interest as there are shades of Harold Ward's classic The House Of The Living Dead about these zombie assassins programmed to obey a dog whistle. Possibly these dog-whistle-trained zombies were related to the ones in Robert Tralins' The Cozmozoids - the hero defeated those by banging on dustbin lids.  |
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