Circle of Scorpions

Circle of Scorpions is the 196th novel in the long-running Nick Carter-Killmaster series. The book was first published in 1985.^[1]

Plot summary

Nick Carter knows that the KGB has called a meeting of all the world's terrorist organizations. It's a party he wants to crash: the only problem is, he doesn't know where or when. But espionage has its own deadly etiquette, and with the help of a beautiful double agent and a black market death-merchant, N3 proves that there are ways to get invited to even the most exclusive affairs...

Main characters

• Nick Carter, agent N-3, AXE
• Hawk, Carter’s boss, head of AXE
• Naomi Bartinelli, money launderer and arms broker
• Al Garret, AXE electronics expert
• Ali Maumed Kashmir, Lebanese arms dealer
• Carlotta Polti, Italian CID agent working undercover in the La Aicizia di Liberta Italiana terrorist group.
• Hadley, Chris, Barzoni, Hal, Ted, and Marco, AXE strike team members
• Oakhurst code name for an Amsterdam arms dealer
• Tony Santoni, Italian CID
• Sophia Palmori, Liberta terrorist member
• Wombo, Pocky and Nordo Compari, Liberta terrorist members
• Pietro Amani, jailed leader of Liberta
• Jason Henry, American mercenary pilot

References

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Nick Carter

Authors

• John R. Coryell
• Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey
• Thomas C. Harbaugh
• Eugene T. Sawyer
• Richard Wormser
• Michael Avallone
• Gayle Lynds

Series

• New York Weekly (newspaper)
• Nick Carter-Killmaster (books)
• Nick Carter, Master Detective (radio)
• Nick Carter (comic strip)

Films

• Nick Carter, le roi des détectives (France, 1908)
• The Inheritance from New York (Germany, 1919)
• The Hotel in Chicago (Germany, 1921)
• Only One Night (Germany, 1922)
• The Passenger in the Straitjacket (Germany, 1922)
• Women Who Commit Adultery (Germany, 1922)
• Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939)
• Phantom Raiders (1940)
• Sky Murder (1940)
• Nick Carter va tout casser (France, 1964)
• Nick Carter and Red Club (France, 1965)
• Adventures of Nick Carter (1972, TV film)
• Dinner for Adele (Czechoslovakia, 1977)

Books

• Agent Counter-Agent
• The Bright Blue Death
• The Code
• The Death Strain
• The Devil's Cockpit
• Double Identity
• The Executioners
• The Filthy Five
• Hanoi
• Istanbul
• The Living Death
• Macao
• Operation Starvation
• Peking & The Tulip Affair
• The Red Guard
• Rhodesia
• Saigon
• Seven Against Greece
• The Terrible Ones
• The 13th Spy
• Assassination Brigade
• Assault on England
• Assignment: Israel
• Checkmate in Rio
• The China Doll
• The Chinese Paymaster
• Circle of Scorpions
• Danger Key
• Dragon Flame
• The Eyes of the Tiger
• Fraulein Spy
• The Golden Serpent
• Hood of Death
• The Jamaican Exchange
• A Korean Tiger
• The Mind Poisoners
• Mission to Venice
• Operation Moon Rocket
• Operation Snake
• The Rangoon Man
• Run, Spy, Run
• Safari for Spies
• The Samurai Kill
• Spy Castle
• Temple of Fear
• The Weapon of Night
• Web of Spies

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