The Asian Mantrap

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Old soldiers never die — they just disappear. At least that’s what happened to Keith Martin, POW survivor and Vietnam War hero. Is it just a coincidence that high-ranking North Viet officials are being murdered? But why would anyone go back?

N3’s mission is to find out — and if there’s a connection between Martin and the assassinations it’s to be severed... at any cost. Because behind closed doors in Washington nerves are stretched to the breaking point. If these murders aren’t stopped, the U.S. is bound to be blamed. And once again, world peace is in the hands of one man — Nick Carter, Killmaster — in this nerve tingling espionage thriller!

The tall, muscular man tossed the butt of a pungent-odored, hand-rolled, brown-papered cigarette on the uneven floor and ground it out with his foot. He looked at himself in the piece of mirror still on the wall of the latrine in the bombed-out building where he had taken refuge. The only light was that of an ivory moon that seeped through gaps in the crumbling walls. He fastened together the tabs of the quilted, choke-collared, black pajama jacket he wore. It was the same as the type worn by most peasant farmers toiling in the fields and rice paddies of Northern Vietnam.

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