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Jonas Wilde: Eliminator #1
The eliminator
Jonas Wilde is self-reliant and supremely confident. In his job he has to be, as he is the official assassin of the British security service with 32 successful ‘missions’ to his credit. Returning from the West Indies after one such mission, he decides to quit whilst he is ahead – but will his secretive masters let him?If he wants to retire from his dangerous life, Wilde has to agree to one last the elimination of a defecting Czech scientist currently being held in England by the American CIA. The only problem is that the CIA and British Security are supposed to be on the same side.....aren’t they?
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First published January 1, 1966
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Andrew York
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Christopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is the son of Jean Dorothy (Logan) and Jack Nicole, a police officer, both Scottish. He studied at Queen's College in Guyana and at Harrison College in Barbados. He was a fellow at the Canadian Bankers Association and a clerk for the Royal Bank of Canada in Georgetown and Nassau from 1947 to 1956. In 1957, he moved to Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, where he currently lives, but he also has a domicile in Spain.
On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
Christopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is the son of Jean Dorothy (Logan) and Jack Nicole, a police officer, both Scottish. He studied at Queen's College in Guyana and at Harrison College in Barbados. He was a fellow at the Canadian Bankers Association and a clerk for the Royal Bank of Canada in Georgetown and Nassau from 1947 to 1956. In 1957, he moved to Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, where he currently lives, but he also has a domicile in Spain.
On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
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November 16, 2022
An Excellent Espionage Epic
“The Eliminator” was an exciting spy saga about the dark side of espionage. This entry in the genre appears to have been influenced by the John le Carre school of spy yarns for its realism and lack of sophisticated gadgetry. Unlike the Ian Fleming school of spy shenanigans with exotic villains with an agenda that advocates global domination. Jonas Wilde is a plain but never simple killer. Instead of firearms and cutlery, Wilde relies on his bare hands to kill his adversaries. He has tempered his right hand into a lethal weapon. One well-timed strike at the back of the neck with a karate chop is his preferred method of killing his victims. Wilde is sent to eliminate a Soviet scientist who has defected to Uncle Sam. Very much a thoughtful, intelligent spy caper with interesting characters and hair-raising suspense with incisive dialogue.
“The Eliminator” was an exciting spy saga about the dark side of espionage. This entry in the genre appears to have been influenced by the John le Carre school of spy yarns for its realism and lack of sophisticated gadgetry. Unlike the Ian Fleming school of spy shenanigans with exotic villains with an agenda that advocates global domination. Jonas Wilde is a plain but never simple killer. Instead of firearms and cutlery, Wilde relies on his bare hands to kill his adversaries. He has tempered his right hand into a lethal weapon. One well-timed strike at the back of the neck with a karate chop is his preferred method of killing his victims. Wilde is sent to eliminate a Soviet scientist who has defected to Uncle Sam. Very much a thoughtful, intelligent spy caper with interesting characters and hair-raising suspense with incisive dialogue.
December 16, 2020
In all these genre novels, the only real crime is when the books themselves get lost to posterity. The protagonist Wilde was as good as the best of the bunch for the period, lacking -- with hindsight -- only a good press agent. His signature move was a specific judo strike that, when practiced to perfection, could kill in one swift and silent blow. In a later entry in the series, perhaps the most sardonic moment, Wilde sprains his back and can barely move. This in turn causes one of the villains to remove him from suspicion, reasoning that such a pathetic creature, writhing in pain, cannot possibly be a threat to anyone. One attempt was made at a movie adaptation and it was horrid in every way. Anyone republishing this series is doing a solid for readers everywhere of all ages.
June 12, 2018
Excellent spy novel first published in 1966. Took a while to get into but once I did I found this to be a cracking read. The first of nine novels, it's a real shame that these books have been largely forgotten, but thanks goodness for those Top Notch folk at Top Notch thrillers, who have published the first 3. Jonas Wilde, assassin for Her Majesty's Government, is a memorable lead character, a bit like 007 but more sardonic. Well defined female characters too. A real treat for those yet to discover the work of Andrew York (not his real name).
January 14, 2021
Jonas Wilde is an assassin for a super-secret British agency known as “The Route” in this 1966 adventure which still reads well due to the tension built by the smooth writing, the well-described locales and a hero more realistic than Bond. Wilde decides to retire after he eliminates an ex-Nazi in Barbados but his shadowy bosses want a hit on English soil. Double-crosses, suspicions, interesting women and a climax on a storm-tossed yacht off Guernsey before a final tying up of a loose end in London, mark a superior period piece. 2.5 stars
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