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Hank Frost, the one-eyed mercenary captain, goes on a vicious blood-hunt into the jungles of war-torn Central Africa, carrying his vendetta against the kill-crazy rogue commander who massacred Frost's outfit down to the very last man. The trail leads him into a three-sided ground war between Communist terrorist butchers, a bloody-handed puppet dictator, and the CIA's own revolutionary army. Through an endless web of torture slayings, a bank heist commando raid, and deception, Hank Frost never takes his eye off the ultimate goal: assassination.
Assasination in the Swiss Alps... terrorism in the Central American jungle... Treachery in Washington... and Hank Frost is right in the middle! The wise-cracking mercenary captain is up to his eyepatch in brutal violence.
Hank Frost, the wise-cracking, one-eyed mercenary captain, suddenly becomes commanding general of an anti-Communist Mercenary Army doubling as admiral of a moth-balled invasion fleet. And there's also a $100,000 payoff in the bargain. All Frost has to do is invade Monte Azul, a country lost to Communist terrorists, and oust Castro's murderous puppet dictator, who's backed by a Castro Army of 4,000 shock troops. But if he survives that, there's Marina, the daughter of the dead anti-Communist president, who wants Frost as her lover—and the vengeance-bent right-wing Army leader who wants Frost dead. Assassination, piracy commando raids and pitched battles lead Frost ever near the final one-on-one death-duel with the dictator!
HANK FROST—THE ONE-EYED MERC CAPTAINHank Frost, the fast-talking, fast-shooting one-eyed mercenary captain, hires out to body-guard a returning, deep-cover female U.S. agent. He has to drive her from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C, where she'll report directly to the President of the United States. The brain of this unbelievably beautiful redhead carries a list of Communist agents holding positions of trust in the highest echelons of the CIA and FBI-men who have set both organizations on the trail of Frost and the girl with orders to shoot on sight.Add KGB hit squads and a killer blizzard as Frost makes the cross-country run and there's death behind every curve. And alone with the redhead, the one-eyed man learns that there are other kinds of curves that can even be more deadly...
5. Canadian Killing Ground (1981) 10. Bush Warfare (1982) 11. Death Lust! (1982) 12. Headshot! (1982)
Matt Jenks, one of the Merc's old Army bud-dies, is missing.. behind Soviet lines in Afghanistan. When Hank Frost agrees to go in looking for him, he stumbles onto a U.S. intelligence operation and becomes the sudden tar-get of a KGB hit team. Jenks wasn't just a volunteer; he was a CIA contract employee, and he had uncovered a Soviet weapon of such frightening potential it could bring the West to its knees. Now, The Company wants Frost to take on his buddy's job. Bloodbath after bloodbath, firefights with Soviet Alpine troops, and a pathologically violent, excitingly beautiful rebel girl who will kill Frost if she has to in order to get her job done, all bring the one-eyed merc closer to the tightly secured Soviet base where Jenks is being held- ' and the weapon is being readied for "testing" --- against Afghan freedom fighters. A simple rescue is turning into much more than Frost bargained for and maybe mote than he can handle!
The wise-cracking, one-eyed merc is in England to keep an eye on his journalist fiance, Bess ... until someone orders her death and leaves him broken and bloody in a London alley with his brains so scrambled he can't remember his name. Unfortunately, Frost also forgets his discovery of a brutal terrorist plot. The only thing on his mind now is finding out who he is. What he doesn't know is that a secret organization known as The Legion Of Death is getting ready to write down Frost's name for him on a gravestone! The Legion Of Death is planning something that will make the PLO and the Red Brigade look like a couple of church groups. And Hank Frost an amnesiac, unaware of his own fighting skills is caught right in the middle!