Ruby Red Death - Killmaster, No 259 Author:Nick Carter From the back cover: — "The American James Bond!" - The New York Times — Nick Carter — Ruby Red Death — During World War II, Prince Sergei Romanovsky's parents were slaughtered and the family jewels stolen by a Red Army sergeant. Romanovsky escaped, changed his identity, and became one of the most feared men in the Soviet bloce: Vadim Vinnick, power... more »ful head of the Romanian intelligence service.
Now Vinnick is dying and wants to make a deal with AXE: critical information about Soviet operations in exchange for revenge. Nick Carter's job: find Boris Glaskov, the man who butchered Vinnick's family, and retrieve the Heartstone, the priceless bloodred Romanovsky ruby. But Glaskov has killed before for the sake of the gem - and he would find it a pleasure to add Agent N3 to his list of victims...« less