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Killmaster #94
The Aztec Avenger
GREGORIUS: An eccentric billionaire with ambitious plans for a chain of luxury hoels. But his life will cease if Stocelli doesn't get his gambling concessions. He hires Nick Carter to get Stocelli off his back.
STOCELLI: A mafia boss whose operatives around the world are being framed, involving him on some serious charges. He hires Nick Carter to get him off the hook with the Commission.
One of them was running the bigest heroin operation the world has seen. It was Killmaster's job to find out which.
STOCELLI: A mafia boss whose operatives around the world are being framed, involving him on some serious charges. He hires Nick Carter to get him off the hook with the Commission.
One of them was running the bigest heroin operation the world has seen. It was Killmaster's job to find out which.
208 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1976
About the author
Nick Carter
1,081 books48 followersNick Carter is a house pseudonym used by Award, Ace, and later Jove, publishing for the series Nick Carter who later graduated to a special agent for the Killmaster novels, a series of 261+ spy adventures published from 1964 until late 1990s.
A great number of writers have written under the pen-name over the years, beginning in September 1886 when Nick Carter first appeared in the 'New York Weekly' in a 13-week serial, entitled 'The Old Detective's Pupil; or, The Mysterious Crime of Madison Square'.
The Nick Carter character was originally conceived by Ormond G. Smith, the son of one of the founders of Street & Smith, and realized by John R. Coryell.
A great number of writers have written under the pen-name over the years, beginning in September 1886 when Nick Carter first appeared in the 'New York Weekly' in a 13-week serial, entitled 'The Old Detective's Pupil; or, The Mysterious Crime of Madison Square'.
The Nick Carter character was originally conceived by Ormond G. Smith, the son of one of the founders of Street & Smith, and realized by John R. Coryell.
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September 21, 2025
It is 1974 and US super agent Nick Carter is on an extended leave to do some introspective thinking after angrily storming away from his job at AXE, not liking the killer he has become and how cold and dismissive he is to his female dalliances. His leave is interrupted by AXE when he finds that he has been rented out to a shifty billionaire named Gregorio who wants Nick to get a mafia boss named Stocelli off his back. Nick accomplishes this by making a deal with Stocelli who wants Nick to get some other drug dealers off his back.
As such, "The Aztec Avenger" (1974) just kind of muddlies around as a series of conversations with various bad guys working against other bad guys, with threats and pushing, bullying and blackmailing with information, mostly just in brave talk form and less often with fists, knives, or guns. Then more threats, some charismatic handling of females, some double agents for various groups in the action, and then some sprinting from confrontation to confrontation in the second half.
This is the 94th installment of the Nick Carter Killmaster series and it was ghost-written by Saul Wernick. Nick Carter - the author - is a pseudonym used by several authors writing for the series for Award Books, with Nick Carter also being the name of the protagonist character, a superhero American James Bond-style agent. These stories have some adult content.
The actual “Aztec Avenger” in this story could be either of two characters - first, an elderly scientist who has been spoiler-removed on his own to avenge the death of his daughter, or second, Nick Carter himself, who, among his various super-spy abilities, is able to pilot an Aztec twin-engine cargo aircraft and does so in this adventure, and he definitely avenges a lot of wrongs in this action novel.
Verdict: Not one of the better Carter tales, "The Aztec Avenger" (1974) struggles a bit with a lack of focus in the plot, action scenes that are clunky, and trouble relating a feel of the Acapulco setting. It just doesn't read as fun as some of the other Carter books I've read recently.
Jeff's Rating: 2 / 5 (Okay)
movie rating if made into a movie: R
As such, "The Aztec Avenger" (1974) just kind of muddlies around as a series of conversations with various bad guys working against other bad guys, with threats and pushing, bullying and blackmailing with information, mostly just in brave talk form and less often with fists, knives, or guns. Then more threats, some charismatic handling of females, some double agents for various groups in the action, and then some sprinting from confrontation to confrontation in the second half.
This is the 94th installment of the Nick Carter Killmaster series and it was ghost-written by Saul Wernick. Nick Carter - the author - is a pseudonym used by several authors writing for the series for Award Books, with Nick Carter also being the name of the protagonist character, a superhero American James Bond-style agent. These stories have some adult content.
The actual “Aztec Avenger” in this story could be either of two characters - first, an elderly scientist who has been spoiler-removed on his own to avenge the death of his daughter, or second, Nick Carter himself, who, among his various super-spy abilities, is able to pilot an Aztec twin-engine cargo aircraft and does so in this adventure, and he definitely avenges a lot of wrongs in this action novel.
Verdict: Not one of the better Carter tales, "The Aztec Avenger" (1974) struggles a bit with a lack of focus in the plot, action scenes that are clunky, and trouble relating a feel of the Acapulco setting. It just doesn't read as fun as some of the other Carter books I've read recently.
Jeff's Rating: 2 / 5 (Okay)
movie rating if made into a movie: R
March 3, 2016
A nice rewrite of an old Pulp character. Recast more in the James Bond spy mode. Good quick men's adventure read. If you are looking for some fast paced action and adventure then this is a recommended read.
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