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.
HIGH SEAS ADVENTURE: FOUR FULL NOVELS gathers classic action novels set on open water, where danger comes fast and escape is never easy.
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.
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.
