The Wrecking Crew

In this, the second book of the series, Helm's character is firmly set. He's in Sweden, so we get a fair amount of comparison between the two countries, what he thinks makes sense & what doesn't. More...

April 2018: This was an emergency read. I listened to the first one Death of a Citizen not long ago & loved it all over again even though I've read it a bunch of times & listened to it just a couple o...

A while back, I discovered Kindle versions of the 1960s Matt Helm books (there are 27 in all) and decided to work my way through at least a few of them. As I learned from reading the first, Death of a...

In the second Matt Helm novel, Helm is now separated from his wife, who could not handle the revelation that he was a trained killer. Helm is now back in the secret organization nicknamed the Wrecking...

Tough, cool and devoid of sentiment, this novel finds super-secret operative Helm on a mission on the heels of Death of a Citizen. He's off to Sweden, where Helm and creator Hamilton have roots. Reple...

Another cold war thriller set back in the early 60's in Sweden. Helm, the hero, is a government assassin sent to kill off a spy who has proven too deadly for the other spies - a typical job for him. H...

After reading this 2nd book in the series, I am completely hooked. These Matt Helm books remind me a lot of the Parker books by Richard Stark, being contemporaries with that series as well. What Parke...

Gotta love a spy thriller from the early '60's. Good stuff....

Fun second book. If you have expectations set from listening to/reading the first book in the series, this meets those expectations. Action involving the other side’s spies, women and men to distrus...

This is the second book in Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm series, about an assassin for a secret government agency which is probably some department of the CIA. I thought the first one was pretty good,...