This book was first published in 1960, a spy novel set in the same time frame as the James Bond stories, but in a very different environment. This is the first of the Matt Helm series of stories.
Matt Helm was a member of a secret spy organization during WWII. After the war he returned to the life he had left as a citizen. He married, had children, and resumed his career as a photographer.
But then his old life comes back to haunt him, and he makes the choices he feels he is forced to. This ends his life as a citizen.
The story is violent, and Matt Helm is a bit ruthless and hard-boiled--definitely not the urbane spy that the James Bond stories of that era profiles!
I have been a fan of the Matt Helm stories for many years, and was glad I found this one that explains how he got back into the whole spy life after he had been out of it for many years.
This fulfills a requirement of Mt. TBR Challenge.
It also fulfills a requirement of the A to Z Reading Challenge Author--H
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