The Betrayers Matt Helm Book 10 (Audible Audio Edition) Donald Hamilton Stefan Rudnicki Inc Skyboat Media Books
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The Betrayers is the 10th installment in Donald Hamilton's iconic and thrilling Matt Helm series, which has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.
Far out in the Pacific, among the sunny islands of Hawaii, a dark, venomous plot is engineered by a rogue agent, an angel-faced man called the Monk, who has a special fondness for high explosives. His target is an American troopship with 3,000 US soldiers scheduled to blow sky high - unless Matt Helm can stop him. But first Helm has to trust the beautiful stranger who claims to be his sister-in-law and insists that his former "wife" had just willed him half a million dollars.
The Betrayers Matt Helm Book 10 (Audible Audio Edition) Donald Hamilton Stefan Rudnicki Inc Skyboat Media Books
Just like the rest of Hamilton's Matt Helm books, this one delivers. Start at the beginning (Death of a Citizen) and read them all. They are short novels in the style of Hemingway with a protagonist who is basically a nice guy, but follows his head rather than his emotions. Most importantly for the entertainment value, he doesn't do stupid things some author finds necessary to advance his plot. Another nice touch is that Hamilton clearly knows (well, knew, since he has sadly passed away) something about firearms and other tools of the violent arts, so when the going gets rough he doesn't have the protagonist do the stupid sorts of things other writers whose experience is limited to their TV remote controls dream up. I think Hemingway said something to the effect that good fiction was more true than truth, because truth always gets cluttered up with tangential facts. (I'm sure Hemingway said it better). Anyway, Hamilton's books ring true in that absolute sense.Bottom line: entertainment with guidance in clear thinking which was appreciated by my young self 40 years ago and even more resonant today.
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The Betrayers Matt Helm Book 10 (Audible Audio Edition) Donald Hamilton Stefan Rudnicki Inc Skyboat Media Books Reviews
story flowed with some twist and surprises mixed with understandable lines.
Hamilton writes so well. His writing is spare but not dull, and he includes detail and allusions that are interesting without being self conscious or pedantic. The plots are believable and clever, and he does not rely on far fetched rescues or high tech interventions. He has the grit of the 60's and is unsentimental about the depravity within all our human hearts (unless restrained). The sex is not lurid or titillating. In short, he tells a good story and tells it well.
A really good writer, Hamilton has created an agent who is, by far, the most believable fictional operative around. Great reading.
Predictable based on Donald Hamilton's other Matt Helm stories, which is why people buy books in a series. These are very enjoyable.
My second favorite series. Many of the books in the series are formulaic, but it was great hardboiled stuff for the times. Only John D. MacDonald was better, writing the Travis McGee series.
This book was every bit as good as all the previous ones in the series. Matt Helm is a great hero. He is pragmatic and professional. He doesn't care about politics or anything else. He does the job assigned first and when possible tends to everything else. My only problem with this book is that I'm finished with it and have to wait for the next adventure.
The Betrayers is typical Matt Helm fun. He deals with the usual double crossing females that can't stay away from his sexual prowess, which is handled in a typical sixties fashion by not boring the reader with the intimate details. He also deals with the double crossing male agent who thinks he is smarter than Helm, which he may be, only not as lucky. As usual Helm gets captured, beaten up and told how stupid he is by the bad guys who have planned another form of horrible death for him. But once again, because of Helm's inept attempts to out smart the bad guys things go wrong for the bad guys at the critical moment and Helm successfully completes his assignment. The book is pure fun and light reading. I recommend that you read them all, in order, to get the real flavor of this super assassin.
Just like the rest of Hamilton's Matt Helm books, this one delivers. Start at the beginning (Death of a Citizen) and read them all. They are short novels in the style of Hemingway with a protagonist who is basically a nice guy, but follows his head rather than his emotions. Most importantly for the entertainment value, he doesn't do stupid things some author finds necessary to advance his plot. Another nice touch is that Hamilton clearly knows (well, knew, since he has sadly passed away) something about firearms and other tools of the violent arts, so when the going gets rough he doesn't have the protagonist do the stupid sorts of things other writers whose experience is limited to their TV remote controls dream up. I think Hemingway said something to the effect that good fiction was more true than truth, because truth always gets cluttered up with tangential facts. (I'm sure Hemingway said it better). Anyway, Hamilton's books ring true in that absolute sense.
Bottom line entertainment with guidance in clear thinking which was appreciated by my young self 40 years ago and even more resonant today.
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