A 1001 Midnights Review: DONALD HAMILTON – Death of a Citizen.

A 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review by Robert E. Briney DONALD HAMILTON – Death of a Citizen. Matt Helm #1. Fawcett Gold Medal, paperback original, 1960. Reprinted a number of times. Donald Hamilton has been a full-time writer and photojournalist since 1946. His first three novels were published in hardcover by Rinehart; all subsequent ones have appeared as paperback originals. In 1953 he turned from suspense and spy fiction to westerns, and over the next several years published five superior books in this field before returning permanently to the espionage novels that form the bulk of his output. Death of a Citizen was the first of a long-running series featuring the tough and tough-minded counterspy Matt Helm, who operates under the code name “Eric.” While in the army in World War II, Helm was recruited into a super-secret counterintelligence group whose very existence is not acknowledged by other arms of the government. “What we were, never was. What we did, never happened,” Helm/Eric is told…

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