
It's a really dumb idea to tattoo all of your spies with the agency logo. The best parts are the combat in the desert when Carter is strapped to a camel and run with a herd of goats over a minefield, and the aftermath every time Carter uses Tiny Tim, his stock of atomic grenades. Presumably they thought James Bond was too much a gentleman so they had to rough it up a bit.Ī decent little action novel. There's a lot of pleasure/pain, love/hate, sex/combat dichotomy going on. Hitting the red target, plunging into the red cave, etc. The wordage used is weirdly explicit and unerotic, like they aimed for a double entendre and missed. The scenes dealing with action and plot are well written, but the transitional scenes have weird, poorly written asides. The writing style varies wildly, making me wonder if it was punched up by some incompetent editor. His adventures bring him from an adult theater to a high rise building to the desolate Syrian border. AXE agent Nick Carter is assigned to assassinate four people connected to the drug trade in Turkey.
