It's been far too long since I sat down with a sleazy Nick Carter adventure novel, but the time I spent waiting for my flight at the Edinburgh and London airports allowed me to finish Berlin and Last Flight to Moscow, as well as a Sam Durell novel (Assignment White Rajah). Berlin is pretty good -- yet another Nick Carter novel that would, if it was made into a movie, take longer to watch than it takes to read the book. I think this one took me about 70 minutes. So the story this time around finds Nick en route to meet a fellow secret agent. Unfortunately, Nick sees the boat on which that agent is riding explode, and in the ensuing chaos, only one survivor emerges. Lucky for Nick, it's a sexy, big breasted German chick who I assume looks a lot like Helga from the new American Gladiators. Despite the fact that she just survived an explosion that ripped everyone else to shreds, she's ready for sex with Nick in a matter of hours. And to no one's surprise who has read a Nick Carter novel, she also happens to be a freaky nympho. Oh, and her name is Helga as well.

Eventually, Nick gets around to picking up the mission left unfinished by the dead spy, and soon enough, he's up to his eyeballs in guys trying to kill him. Along the way, he commandeers the car of yet another sexy woman who will look at the fact that he steals her car, holds her at gunpoint, and then gets everything demolished by a train as a good reason to bed him. He also ends up trapped in East Germany after Helga is revealed to be an enemy agent who orchestrated the boat explosion (to no one's surprise but Nick's). The plot gets around to revealing that a German megalomaniac is involved in the usual: using Arab money to fund a new war against the Jews. Guys, give it up about the Jews. You're not going to exterminate them. Use your money for something better, like building a collection of ravenous hawks you use to hunt naked women and American super spies.

Plenty of good action this time around. It's all par for the course -- Nick has some car chases, some shoot outs, fucks an evil woman a few times, fucks a good girl a few times, gets captured, gets stripped naked, and then everything blows up at the end. Everything moves fast, and the whole thing is a prime example of Nick Carter at his ridiculous best.


Oh, Helga...!

Labels: Espionage, Series: Nick Carter