Description
"Helm is a genuinely tough and tough-minded protagonist...your reading diet lacks essential vitamins if you overlook him." -- "New York Times, praise for the series" --This text refers to the audioCD edition. Donald Hamilton (1916-2006) was the creator of Matt Helm, star of twenty-seven novels that have sold more than twenty million copies worldwide. He was born in Uppsala, Sweden, attended the University of Chicago, and served in the US Naval Reserve. His writing career began in 1946 with short stories for Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post . His first novel was Date with Darkness , published in 1947, and altogether he published thirty-eight novels. The first Matt Helm novel, Death of a Citizen , was originally published in 1960, at the height of the Cold War. Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than three thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile 's Golden Voices in 2012. --This text refers to the audioCD edition.
Features & Highlights
- The survivor of a plane crash wakes up in a hospital in Canada, his memory a blank. Then in walks Kitty, a gorgeous woman, who tells him that he is Paul Madden, a photographer, and her fiancé. Not bad. Except that a man on the phone keeps calling him Matt Helm. Things don’t add up. This can only mean trouble...
