World War II - a small, secret international group of professional criminals and ex-criminals, partly made up by assassins, forgers, and safe-crackers .... all linked by an unyielding hatred of Nazi Germany and her allies. They operate behind enemy lines on missions of deadly danger - missions impossible for any orthodox military unit. When they are called in, the pace is savage and tough. When they move, death is never far behind. They are known as ...

THE KILLERS
by KLAUS NETZEN

THE SILENT ENEMY

Mid-summer 1942 and at last Killers agent Andy Ballantine returns from the Far East to report to John Standish.

Emaciated and exhausted, Ballantine spills out the fragments of his incredible story — the Japanese invaders who stole like ghosts through the Malayan jungle — the British military incompetence which led to the fall of Singapore — the brutality of Ballantine's old enemy, the sadistic secret policeman Mizikawa — the terrors of the jungle where every flickering shadow held the promise of a knife in the back...

Published April 01, 2024. Recommended Price: £2.50

DEATH VILLAGE

With their country firmly under oppressive Nazi rule, the leaders of the exiled Czechoslovakian government appeal for Allied initiative in their country.

And so, once more, John Standish and his deadly Killer commandoes spring into action where war is at its dirtiest. Parachuted into Occupied territory, Standish and his henchman, Jean Marreq, find the Czech resistance on the brink of launching a brave but foolhardy scheme. The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, "Protector" of Czechoslovakia and one of the most hated Nazis of all time.
If such a plan should succeed, Hitler's wrath will be awful. But no-one, not even Standish, can know just how terrible his revenge will be...

Published February 01, 2024. Recommended Price: £2.50

PEARL OF BLOOD

Japan, 1941. As America clings to her neutrality in the autumn of 1941, the eyes of The Killers turn to the Far East. Japan's war-like stance has put a new slant on world politics

The Killers leader John Standish believes a surprise attack on the United States is in preparation. Such an attack would place a valuable ally by the side of beleaguered Britain.

American agent Andy Ballantine is the The Killers man in Tokyo and his mission is to find a chink in Japanese security. But Ballantine is up against the Kempei Tai, the fearsome secret police, led by the evil Colonel Mizikawa. And Mizikawa has some effective ways of nipping espionage in the bud. Effective ... and very painful.

Published November 01, 2023. Recommended Price: £2.50

THE FATAL FRIENDS

Europe, 1941. Britain trembles on the brink of defeat. Across the Channel stands the invincible German Army. Just one hope remains .... to shatter the German/Soviet neutrality pact and send the Panzers rumbling Eastward.

The Killers leader John Standish agrees to undertake his most dangerous mission yet. To penetrate Hitler's private lair, the Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. To attend a house party with some of the most evil monsters of the twentieth century—Himmler, Goering, Goebbels, Hess.

To disrupt a madman's destiny and hasten the split between Hitler and Stalin ... those two fatal friends.

Published September 01, 2023. Recommended Price: £2.50

NIGHT AND FOG

Nacht und Nebel. Night and Fog! The words carved over the dark entrances of German concentration camps. For everyone who entered there, those words meant an end of all hope.

Few men or women ever tried to escape from these camps, and fewer still succeeded. For most, the only way to freedom lay through the gas chambers and the crematoria. Yet, one man risks all to break into a camp. That man is John Standish, leader of 'The Killers'.

The camp, one hundred and sixty miles south-west of Warsaw, is Auschwitz!

Despite the dangers, Standish coldly put his life at risk in that place of absolute death to try and rescue a man. One man whose secret could shorten the war - or even end it...

This, the third story in the savage The Killers series, is played out against the background of war-ravaged Europe in 1941. A time when England stood alone.

Published July 01, 2023. Recommended Price: £2.50

THE WINSTON CHURCHILL MURDER

Summer, 1940. Britain stands alone against the Nazi forces gathering just across the Channel. Invasion seems imminent. In those months of the Battle of Britain, with the Blitz becoming a nightly horror in the major cities, one man represents the unquenchable spirit of England. Winston Churchill, the recently appointed Prime Minister.

The German leaders hatch their scheme: kill Churchill and the heart will be torn from England. Their plans reach John Standish .... leader of 'The Killers.' After their tragic adventures in Paris and Warsaw (as told in To Win And To Lose) this secret group of criminals and ex-criminals again combine against the Nazis, with the vital aim of saving the Prime Minister from assassination. The trail of murder leads Standish to occupied Holland and back to bomb-torn London for the chilling climax. On the way, there is a little love. But, where Standish goes, there is always death. Bloody and bizarre!

Published May 01, 2023. Recommended Price: £2.50

TO WIN AND TO LOSE

In a dawn raid on what was supposed to be a safe house, the Gestapo had caught a band of Polish resistance fighters. Among them was a British spy named Leslie Peters. So far, the Gestapo didn't know how important their prisoner was. But as soon as his true identity was revealed, they would give him up to their most proficient torturers and he would sing like a bird ... placing the lives of all the S.O.E. operatives in the country at risk.

So John Standish was ordered to rescue Peters ... or elminiate him. If possible, Standish's boss, Tristram Bowditch, wanted the spy back in one piece. They were, after all, old school chums. But when they finally met, Standish realised there was something about the man that he just couldn't trust. Was he everything he claimed to be? Or could he just possibly be a double agent who had sold his own country out to the enemy?

Published March 01, 2023. Recommended Price: £2.50