John Rex Gearon (1911-1993) aka John Flagg was a playwright and novelist. His first book, The Velvet Well, was published in 1946 and was into the 1978 film A Butterfly on the Shoulder. He is perhaps best known for his five “Hart Muldoon” adventure novels.
An espionage classic, back in print for the first time in over 60 years.
Hart Muldoon is a freelance spy in post-WW2 Europe, watching with cynical indifference the game of espionage play out in the rubble. He'll work for anybody on the western side of the Iron Curtain. HIs latest mission, this time for the U.S., is to shadow an oil executive and his seductive wife who may be involved in a deadly conspiracy to prevent an Arab prince from marrying an Israeli woman.