The Interlopers
Helm in Alaska - with girls and trouble and dogs double...
This time Uncle Mac has gone a little too far.
For one thing impersonating a Communist courier to whom Helm bore not a shade of resemblance was one quick suicide, but a cover in the form of a black Labrador named Prince Hannibal of Holgate...well!
And that wasn't all. Acting seemed to be in season because Helm found he wasn't the only one after an oscar for the part. Somebody else wanted to get the layout of the North-west Coastal Defense System. They weren't the goodies, or the baddies. So who the hell were they?
And while confusion reigned supreme, Helm had to accomplish his main mission. Mac had been explicit on this count. 'Kill Holz before he kills the President.' Which left Helm wondering just how many Holzs there were, and just how many lives he had.
Donald Hamilton
Donald Hamilton was a U.S. writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction about the outdoors. His novels consist mostly of paperback originals, principally spy fiction but also crime fiction and Westerns such as The Big Country. He is best known for his long-running Matt Helm series (1960-1993), which chronicles the adventures of an undercover counter-agent/assassin working for a secret American government agency.
Hamilton began his writing career in 1946, fiction magazines like Collier's Weekly and The Saturday Evening Post. His first novel Date With Darkness was published in 1947; over the next forty-six years he published a total of thirty-eight novels. Most of his early novels whether suspense, spy, and western published between 1954 and 1960, were typical paperback originals of the era: fast-moving tales in paperbacks with lurid covers. Several classic western movies, The Big Country and The Violent Men, were adapted from two of his western novels.
Matt Helm
Matt Helm consists of twenty-seven books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
