Monday, October 20, 2008
 
Book Report: The Silencers by Donald Hamilton (1962)
This book is another in the Matt Helm series, the fourth (I think).

In it, Helm travels to Mexico, gets some secret information, and then walks into a trap on purpose to get to an agent known as The Cowboy who might be sabotaging a nuclear test. When he gets caught, as planned, Helm turns the tables on his captors and on the woman who has double-crossed him--as planned--even as they've fallen in love.

It's not very complicated, but it's a 60s paperback adventure. You get a handful of scenes, a female love interest of potentially duplicitious motivation, and then you get a sudden climax with a big explosion. A hundred and fifty pages, and you're done. Man, I love these paperbacks.

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