The Annihilators, Donald Hamilton
The Annihilators, Donald Hamilton
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The Annihilators

Author: Donald Hamilton

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 11 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Skyboat Media

Published: 02/22/2022


Synopsis

Matt Helm has got a good thing going with Elly. So a terrorist outfit really have picked the wrong woman when they kidnap her in order to leverage Matt into carrying out an assassination. Now, Helm finds himself in Costa Verde with one thing on his mind: revenge …

About Donald Hamilton

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.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki is an award winning audiobook narrator, director and producer. He was born in Poland and now resides in Studio City, California. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks and has participated in over a thousand as a writer, producer, or director. He is a recipient of multiple Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as a Grammy Award, a Bram Stoker Award, and a Ray Bradbury Award. He received AudioFile’s award for 2008 Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Along with a cast of other narrators, Rudnicki has read a number of Orson Scott Card's best-selling science fiction novels. He worked extensively with many other science fiction authors, including David Weber and Ben Bova. In reviewing the twentieth anniversary edition audiobook of Card’s Ender's Game, Publishers Weekly stated, "Rudnicki, with his lulling, sonorous voice, does a fine job articulating Ender's inner struggle between the kind, peaceful boy he wants to be and the savage, violent actions he is frequently forced to take." Rudnicki is also a stage actor and director.


Reviews

Goodreads review by John

From the mid sixties on Donald Hamilton’s Matt Helm series was often promoted as a realistic alternative to James Bond. This statement came with loads of irony, starting with the fact that they were attempting to contrast the novels against the successful series of movies more than the literary work......more

Goodreads review by Jim

This book stands out because Hamilton injects some ESP (paranormal) elements into the story. He's touched on the Bermuda Triangle & UFO's in other books. They turned out to be fakes or natural causes, although he left the 'green ball' UFO's open. In this book, he goes a bit further. I'm not sure how......more

Goodreads review by Neal

This is one of my favorite Matt Helm novels, which is surprising since it came so late in the series. I find most of the Matt Helm books from the 80s to be tired, overly long exercises with none of the humor or flair of the earlier stories. However, The Annihilators feels like an old, lost manuscrip......more

Goodreads review by Jack

South of the border again Once again, Matt proves to be bad luck to women he likes. This leads to quite a list of activities, including revenge, revolutionaries, archeology, and, believe it or not, dream sharing from an old shaman.......more