Don Smith

Don Smith

Don Smith (1909-1978) aka Donald Taylor Smith was a Canadian-born author best known for his 21-book Secret Mission series of espionage adventures. In 1934-1939 he was a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star in Beijing and he piloted a fighter in the Royal Air Force during WWII. He was decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross for his participation in the Dieppe Raid in 1942. After the war he lived in Morocco and Majorca, manning different businesses before becoming a full-time writer in his 50s.

 

Books by Don Smith

Out of the Sea

Out of the Sea

Out of the Sea is a taut, salt-sprayed adventure packed with peril, passion, and high-stakes smuggling on the edge of the post-WWII Mediterranean.

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Dark Hunger

Dark Hunger

A chilling, hard-boiled descent into voyeurism, guilt, and desire, Dark Hunger exposes the rot behind post-war respectability. Gritty, psychological, and unflinching, this lost 1960s pulp thriller reminds us that the most dangerous appetites are the ones we think we can control.

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The Best Pulp Noir Fiction Volume Eleven: Four Hard-Boiled Novels

The Best Pulp Noir Fiction Volume Eleven: Four Hard-Boiled Novels

Four hard-boiled, pulp noir novels by four masters of the craft, full of violence, sex, action, and adventure, back in print for the first time in sixty years.

SWAMP FIRE by Don Kingery
TEMPLE OF LUST by John B. Thompson
RED CURTAIN by Don Smith
CAVERN OF RAGE by Warner Jackson

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