Four critically acclaimed novels of international espionage, action and terror…all in one volume.
Red Curtain by Don Smith * Temple of Lust by John Burton Thompson * The Pursuit of Agent M by DeWitt Copp * The Dark Road by James Cross
RED CURTAIN by Don Smith
The long-lost first novel in the Secret Mission series of espionage novels featuring international businessman-turned-spy Phil Sherman.
The year is 1959. World War II vet Phil Sherman remained in Shanghai after the war and launched Trans-Eastern Supply, an import-export company specializing in the legal trade of computers with Eastern Bloc nations. Now his business takes him to Europe, where intrigue, espionage, and rampant greed are running wild. He’s approached to sell platinum from behind the Iron Curtain. This leads him into the dangerous arms of seductress Vera Maudet…and puts him in a killing field between the CIA and the KGB.
This book was published under the pseudonym Duncan Tylor (which morphed into “Duncan Tyler” in later editions). Nearly ten years later, Don Smith brought back Phil Sherman for Secret Mission: Peking, the first book in what became the Secret Mission espionage/adventure series that would continue for 20 more novels, ending with the author’s death in 1978.
TEMPLE OF LUST by John B. Thompson
It’s the late 1950s. Ches Markham is an FBI agent stationed in D.C. who is known as a lady’s man…and who uses those skills for Uncle Sam. He’s set-up to be seduced, and snatched, by Dayne Holcombe, a beautiful Austrian seductress, as part of an elaborate scheme by Nazi fugitives involving stolen gold and diamonds. But it all goes violently wrong for everyone. Markham escapes and Dayne flees to Sierra Negro, a volcanic island off the Yucatan peninsula. Markham goes after her, on a mission to foil the plot…but becomes embroiled with Dayne in the passionate, pagan rituals of the ancient Mayans. If his raging desires don’t kill him, the deadly conspiracy could…and take our country down with him.
THE PURSUIT OF AGENT M by DeWitt Copp
“From cliff-edge to cliff-edge — a relentless thriller.” Buffalo Evening News
It’s 1961, the height of the Cold War. Mark Costain is a deep-cover U.S. intelligence agent working in a Czech aircraft plant when his true identity is exposed. He kills the security chief and escapes, fleeing into the treacherous mountains in a desperate bid to reach the Austrian border, relentlessly pursued by the ruthless Secret Police.
“An escape and chase novel in the purest sense,” San Francisco Chronicle
“A tense and breathless novel,” Charleston News and Courier
“A first-rate story…exciting and well developed.” Detroit News
“The writing and style of the book are superior.” Los Angeles Times
THE DARK ROAD by James Cross
“Top notch suspense!” Minneapolis Sunday Tribune
American lawyer Harry Benton, who has been working in West Berlin, is recruited by the secret service to retrieve some important, top secret papers from a high-level Russian that were given to a Pastor in East Germany for safe-keeping. But all is not what it seems and Benton is soon plunged into a conspiracy involving smuggled diamonds and the formula for a deadly bacterial weapon.
“A thriller offering brutal and virulent excitement.” Kirkus Reviews
“A vigorous piece of melodrama. The story moves briskly and efficiently.” Chicago Tribune
“Plenty of action and excitement” Sydney Morning Herald
James Cross was a pseudonym for author Hugh J. Parry.
DeWitt Copp, Don Smith, James Cross, John B. Thompson / Anthologies, Espionage