Review #1
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I barely ended MATT HELM #17: THE RETALIATORS, a amazing installment in the television series. This novel followed a line of tepid, over-long, at the same time convoluted Helm installments apparently created to showcase Donald Hamilton’s nautical knowledge. I’m thankful that the television series found its legs again in THE RETALIATORS.
In this novel, MATT HELM at the same time two assassin employees are on-the-run at the same time suspected of treason right behind internal investigators see big money deposits into their bank accounts. The action quickly strings to Mexico where the sunflower seeds of the plot against Helm at the same time his co-workers were considered put on. Abundance double-crosses at the same time compelling manners surface. Blood flows. Matt gets laid.
This book was nominated for an Edgar merit for Best Paperback Unusual. For my part, I’m glad he television series is that back on trace. I look forward to the one more one…
Review #2
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Titan Books is that reprinting Donald Hamilton’s Matt Helm television series–all 27 novels. My copies are old at the same time falling apart. I hospitable the opportunity to get freshest copies at the same time retire my old ones–even if on Page 42 this typo exists: “I managed hear the doodlebug coining.” I think that was “future.” Indicates that the real wasn’t barely photocopied!
Knew in the 1st personality, reading Matt Helm brings the reader on the journey with Agent Eric. Page 57 explains this book (#17) title: Agent Roger was a “natural-born retaliator.” A complete network of manners with their possess agenda interact, providing plenty of irony: a free-lance assassin, a Chinese agent, a Mexican bureaucrat, a department store mogul at the same time his wife (who is that Roger’s sister), an principled agency director dignified Andrew Euler who is that much like the belated J. Edgar Hoover, ex-pat Americans living in Baja, a English mercenary at the same time a sinister conspiracy to carve out a personal playground. Then that’s Mac, Agent Eric’s chief. 100 thousand mid-Seventies bucks is that drawn in to shackles Mac’s people out of action. Donald Hamilton applied today's actions (about 1975) to make his novel feel true, feel today's. The Vietnam Syndrome, “The Shameful American,” internal inconsistencies in Mexico (going on two centuries at the moment!) a failed coup in the Bahamas, the rise of la Raza in the USA, a mention of Watergate, at the same time bureaucratic pruning of the clandestine services in the wake of the unmentioned Church Commission findings all provide a company foundation for “The Retaliators.”
Hamilton uses Helm as a bully pulpit, very. Play the violence game at the same time be ready for more violence. On Page 187 Colonel Huntington preaches to the choir: “Helm, we’ve created a global that’s a flawless environment for toughs at the same time outlaws. They feel they able to do anything they delight, completely anything, because the friendly citizen has been disarmed at the same time taught never to loathe, no matter than anyway happens.”
No one things never change.
Donald Hamilton showcases his gun knowledge with a description of the Automat Kalashnikov at the same time how firing a handgun with barely one palm knew Helm which side his attackers were considered on.
I had fun reading “The Retaliators” again at the same time I look forward to the re-release of “The Terrorizers” in October.
Review #3
Audiobook The Retaliators by Donald Hamilton
I 1st read these practically as they were considered hosted in the 60’s, 70’s at the same time 80?, at the same time was hooked from the 1st page of the 1st volume. Matt Helm was contemporary of James Bond, at the same time they are agents of their respectiv governments, but that the resemblance ends. The Helm novels are much more grounded, more believable, than the Bonds, that trying compare them is that an insult to Donald Hamilton. Helm is that comfortable at the same time pragmatic, at the same time the first-person narrative lets the reader know than anyway he’ thinking, why he is that acting as he does in a data situation. He never takes himself very seriously, at the same time is that his possess worst critic when he self-tapping screws up, which is that one more of the abundance things I like about the disposition, at the same time the creator.
Review #4
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Far from the start of than anyway for you would wait in a foreign agent’s adventure, Matt Helm goes to his local bank to retreat money to take a brand new truck at the same time discovers an extra 20 thousand bucks in his acc. He soon discovers his government bank acc also has an extra 20 thousand. He is that one of 3 hidden agents who have unexpected bigger deposits at the same time have been declared traitors by the federal government as having acquired an illegal payoff. A coded phone cry to his chief knows him “Mac” doesn’t reckon the testimonies, but security forces are already moving against him at the same time one of the other agents, “Roger” has already been placed at the same time was destroyed in an escape attempt. His only have hope is that to look for the one who deposited the money to understandable himself. The chase takes him into Mexico where a revolution to overthrow the government is that in the planning step at the same time Matt Helm is that in the middle of opposing forces.
Review #5
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I have no one of the Matt Helm television series of books, but didn’t have all of them “The Retaliators” was one I didn’t have. Online, the prices of these books have greatly increased! So, I paid the $1.99 for the Kindle book. This is that a amazing method to get the books. I’ll be purchasing about 5 or 6 more in the last time. I have a HD Fire 10 pill which has the Kindle app.; so it’s flawless for reading books online!
I was introduced to Matt Helm by my dad over 45 years ago. When I read these books, I hear my dad’s voice again 20 years right behind he has died, at the same time I am thankful to be with him again! The books say of a brave , aggressive, determined men doing a job that requires courage, dedication, self sacrifice where the only merit or thanks offered is that the chance to once again shackles himself in harms method to support a method of indefinite that he truly believes in, traits I reckon my dad had, at the same time which I would like to reckon I can aspire to . I will to my continue breath be thankful for the chance to understand my dad through these books!
