Henry Levin

During the Civil War, ex-parson Josiah Galt and his sons are Confederate raiders but they become common robbers after the war, save for son David who goes straight. During the Civil War, Josiah Galt, a former parson, and his sons David, Jacob and Adam, become a gang of bandits who plunder, rob and rape for pleasure. Disgusted by the massacre of the whole population of St. Thomas, Kansas, David drops out of the gang and joins his wife Laura. After their son Pauly was born, David and Laura settle down in Chilon, Texas. A few years later, Galt's gang come there with a view to robbing the local bank. —Guy Bellinger

Secret agent Matt Helm must battle foreign spies and a rogue nation's exiled ruler in order to recover a hijacked U.S. government experimental flying saucer. Without a doubt, there's a mole in the secret Intelligence and Counter Espionage agency. Right after the successful launch of the first state-of-the-art USAF flying saucer, the powerful tractor beam of a nefarious criminal organisation forces the experimental vessel to crash-land in the lush Central-American jungles. As a result, having no recollection of the mysterious incident, the amnesiac test pilot, Sheila Sommers, will have to join forces with the spy extraordinaire and suave photographer, Matt Helm, and travel to sun-kissed Acapulco to shed light on this thorny case. Nevertheless, their luxurious Mexican resort is rife with deadly traps and crafty double-agents, bent on stopping the prying intruders. Will Matt and Sheila unearth the dangerous conspiracy? Can they retrieve the top-secret spacecraft? —Nick Riganas A flying saucer, built by the U.S. Air Force and powered through electromotive forces, is launched into space on a top secret test flight. Shortly after it attains a position in space, strange tractor beams are aimed at it that drag it slowly bring it down to a spot in the lush jungles near Acapulco. There must be a mole in the secret Intelligence and Counter Espionage agency (ICE). The test pilot, Shiela Sommers is recovered but is suffering from amnesia, most unresponsive. That changes as soon as Matt Helm, spy extraordinaire and suave photographer, is sent by his boss MacDonald to visit her. A past assignment, in which they posed as a married couple, instantly snaps her out of the memory loss has her believing that they are once again married. Matt Helm and Shiela travel to sun-kissed Acapulco to shed light on this thorny case. The luxurious Mexican resort is rife with deadly traps and crafty double-agents, bent on stopping the prying intruders. Their targets are exiled ruler, Ortega, and his henchman Quintana. Quintana's Ole brewery plant becomes a focus of action. Interfering initially is foreign agent Francesca Madeiros. Eventually, they agree to cooperate. Most anxious to get his hands on the saucer is an Arab agent/assassin named Nassim. He fails to realize that the electromotive forces used to propel the saucer are fatal to men. That's why the initial test flight was piloted by Shiela. —Garon Smith A government space saucer is hijacked mid-flight by a powerful laser beam. ICE sends agent Matt Helm to Acapulco with and the female pilot, Sheila Sommars, to recover the saucer, under the guise of Matt taking fashion photographs of beautiful models. Matt is temporarily side-tracked, falling prey to the seductive charms of enemy agent Franceca Madeiros. —<slaygirl@sexydeath.com> A flying saucer built by the U.S. government is launched into space on a top secret test flight. Sheila Sommars is the pilot chosen and all goes well until she is found a few months later in a state of shock. Agent Matt Helm is then assigned to find the saucer, with Sheila posing as his wife. When he gets to Mexico, he must not only deal with the exiled ruler, Ortega and his henchman Quintana, but with enemy agent Fracesca Madeiros and an Arab agent/assassin named Nassim. —Brian Washington <Sargebri@att.net>

Handsome top-secret American agent Matt Helm must recover a laser-weapons inventor who has been kidnapped by arch-villain Julian Wall. The handsome top agent Matt dies a tragic death in his bath tub - the women mourn about the loss. However it's just faked for his latest top-secret mission: He shall find Dr. Solaris, inventor of the Helium laser beam, powerful enough to destroy a whole continent. It seems Dr. Solaris has been kidnapped by a criminal organization. The trace leads to the Cote D'Azur... —Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Against the backdrop of a worldwide assassination scheme, Julian Wall--the ruthless kingpin of the underground criminal organisation, Big-O--sets out to kidnap the renowned scientist, Dr Norman Solaris: the inventor of the devastating solar-powered Helio-beam weapon. Believing that he has successfully eliminated the last agent of I.C.E.--the fun-loving super-spy and playboy photographer, Matt Helm--Wall intends to use the death ray against Washington DC, unbeknownst to him, however, that a very alive and incognito Matt heads to cosmopolitan Côte d'Azur to track down the professor's beautiful daughter, Suzie. Can Matt Helm thwart the megalomaniac's plans, or will he stay dead forever? —Nick Riganas

During the thirteenth century, the shy Mongol boy Temujin becomes the fearless leader Genghis Khan, who unites all Mongol tribes and conquers most of Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Mostly-fictionalized account of the life of Genghis Khan (Omar Sharif), the Mongol warlord whose 13th-century armies conquered much of the known world. Named Temujin (Carlo Cura), he was taken prisoner by rival warlord Jamuga (Stephen Boyd), and as punishment, was forced to wear a large round wooden stock that severely restricted his movements. With help from two supporters, wise man Geen (Sir Michael Hordern) and strong man Sengal (Woody Strode), he manages to escape. He now begins his quest to unify all of the Mongol tribes. He faces great success, but his old nemesis Jamuga keeps appearing at various times in his life, leading to a final battle between the two. —garykmcd

Aging gunslinger Jacob Wade hopes to settle down with his estranged son, but his old enemies have other plans for him. Gunslinger Jacob Wade finds his long-abandoned son Riley, now a young man who hates his father but has nowhere else to go. Hoping to settle down, Jacob finds no town will have him. They end at Monolith, the ranch of Jacob's former girlfriend Ada, to whom he had no intention of returning. A mustang hunt finds Riley himself attracted to the shapely Ada...and Jacob having trouble with his eyesight. And his visions of a quiet life are doomed by the re-appearance of enemies from his past... —Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

At the end of the Civil War, two friends return home to Colorado and one of them has changed and is violent and erratic. Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to his experiences during the war, and as his behavior becomes more erratic--and violent--his friend desperately tries to find a way to help him. —frankfob2@yahoo.com