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The Devastators is the ninth installment in Donald Hamilton's iconic and thrilling Matt Helm series, which has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide. On a bleak and lonely heath in northern Scotland, the body of an agent sent to complete a tricky mission is recovered. He had died of bubonic plague. It's up to Matt Helm to take it from there. Somewhere among the desolate Scottish moors is a half-crazed scientific genius who could devastate entire populations with one hideous, raging plague. It is Helm's job to get him ... with the help of a beautiful American operative who is supposed to be his wife, and a beautiful Russian operative who makes it clear she is his deadly enemy.

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"A real world with a real character. -- ""Tom Clancy, #1 New York Times bestselling author, praise for the series"" Donald Hamilton has Hammett; and his stories are as compelling, and probably as close to the sordid truth of espionage, as any now being told. -- ""New York Times, praise for the author"" Helm is about as credible a figure as one can find in the espionage genre. -- ""New Republic, praise for the author"""

Helm is about as credible a figure as one can find in the espionage genre. -- New Republic, praise for the author Donald Hamilton has Hammett; and his stories are as compelling, and probably as close to the sordid truth of espionage, as any now being told. -- New York Times, praise for the author A real world with a real character. -- Tom Clancy, #1 New York Times bestselling author, praise for the series

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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. Claire Bloom, CBE, is an English film and stage actress, known for leading roles in plays such as Streetcar Named Desire, A Doll's House, and Long Day's Journey into Night, along with nearly sixty films and countless television roles, during a career spanning over six decades. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Queen's birthday honors for services to drama. 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.

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