''The Dominators'' is the title of an unpublished novel by

Donald Hamilton Donald Bengtsson Hamilton (March 24, 1916 – November 20, 2006) was an American writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction about the outdoors. His novels consist mostly of paperback originals, principally spy fiction, but also crime ...

. The book, which was completed in the early 2000s, was intended to be the 28th novel in Hamilton's

Matt Helm Matt Helm is a fictional character created by American author Donald Hamilton (1916-2006). Helm is a U.S. government counter-agent, a man whose primary job is to kill or nullify enemy agents—not a spy or secret agent in the ordinary sense of t ...

spy series, continuing the adventures of the character introduced in the 1960 novel ''

Death of a Citizen ''Death of a Citizen'' is a 1960 spy novel by Donald Hamilton, and was the first in a long-running series of books featuring the adventures of assassin Matt Helm. The title refers to the metaphorical death of peaceful citizen and family man Matt H ...

'' and later popularized (in a comedic vein) by actor

Dean Martin Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor and comedian. One of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the mid-20th century, Martin was nicknamed "The King of Cool". M ...

in a series of late-1960s motion pictures. According to the Web site ''The Matt Helm Dossier'', the first draft manuscript was completed by Hamilton in 2001. The same site reported that in 2002 the 86-year-old author was in the process of revising the manuscript. As of early 2015, however, there has been no announcement regarding this book's release; Hamilton died in November 2006. The last Matt Helm volume published to date was ''

The Damagers ''The Damagers'', published in 1993, is a spy novel by Donald Hamilton, and the twenty-seventh volume of the adventures of government assassin Matt Helm. Hamilton had launched the series in 1960 with ''Death of a Citizen'' and this novel is a sequ ...

'' in 1993. Documents and drafts related to ''The Dominators'' are reportedly part of an archive of Hamilton papers currently held by the

University of California, Los Angeles Library The library system of the University of California, Los Angeles, is one of the largest academic research libraries in North America, with a collection of over twelve million books and 100,000 serials. The UCLA Library System is spread over 12 libr ...

References

External links

The Matt Helm Dossier
- accessed on May 4, 2011. {{DEFAULTSORT:Dominators, The Matt Helm novels Unpublished novels