Four critically acclaimed novels of international espionage, action and terror…all in one volume.
Rayne Storm by John B. Thompson * Double Agent By Gene Stackelberg * Compassionate Tiger by Hunton Downs * Counterfeit Courier by James Sheers
RAYNE STORM by John B. Thompson
“A cloak and dagger yarn complete with high adventure and sizzling sex. Don’t miss it.” Orrie Hitt
It’s 1959, and the Cold War is Red Hot. American spy Rayne Cantey is sent on a secret mission to Asia, where he must obtain a smalll, steal box containing a deadly secret that could tip the balance of global power. His life is in constant peril as he loves and battles his way from Honolulu to Hong Kong. Rayne can never be sure who is on his side… and who wants to put a knife in it…and that includes the enchanting and seductive Taneeta, who is half-Dutch and half-savage and pure, sweet poison.
Originally published under the title Half-Caste.
DOUBLE AGENT by Gene Stackelberg
Bill McLean is an unjustly disgraced CIA agent who desperately tries to clear his name by hunting down a rogue Russian spy in London. To pull it off, McLean must navigate a mine field of foreign agents, double-crosses, conspiracies, and murder.
“Gene Stackelberg” was the pseudonym of Arthur Eugene Adams (1917-2007), a former soldier who became a professor of Russian history and a CIA consultant. He also wrote fiction (Quimby, Special Agent, Moscow Nights, etc) and non-fiction (An Atlas of Russian and East European History, Stalin & His Times, The Russian Revolution & Bolshevik Victory, etc) and, for many years, was an administrator at Ohio State University, where there is a street named in his honor.
Double Agent was adapted into the 1968 spy movie The Man Outside starring Van Heflin.
COMPASSIONATE TIGER by Hunton Downs
“A tale of intrigue and violence…if you like a yarn of high adventure in exotic lands, tough and brawny heroes, and sex in heavy doses, this fills the bill.” Hackensack Record
An ancient, Vietnamese parable tells of a tigress who attacks her own cubs…and if the cubs don’t fight back, she kills them out of compassion. Because she knows a cub must learn to kill…or be killed. Soldier-of-fortune Daniel King, also a former male escort, realizes the parable is the key to the cut-throat world of Vietnam in 1954. To survive, King must outwit Mossard, a rich plantation owner who has hired him as a bodyguard… and who constantly plays both sides of every conflict. But so do Mossard’s wife Charlotte and his beautiful mistress Thi-Tuyet, who both lure King into their beds. King must walk on the razor’s edge of death and betrayal in a world of non-stop greed and sudden violence…or die.
“Excellent…the story of Daniel King is interesting, and always exciting, as he struggles to avoid the destiny of the compassionate tiger and the death it must exact.” The Tennessean
“A mortal struggle for power, a gripping conflict set against a broad, accurately realized background that results in the most exciting novel that has yet emerged out of the tinderbox that is Southeast Asia.” Dallas Times-Herald
COUNTERFEIT COURIER by James Sheers
Judson Van Horn is a U.S. spy who is growing weary of the game…and the killing. He is the personification of brute menace, powerful, clever, tough and pitiless. And he knows that his latest mission could force him into betrayal and murder in the name of God and country. But he does it anyway, because that is who is he is….and all he knows.