Danger is Their Business #11

Bill Erle, a midget car racer, survives a terrifying crash that leaves him hospitalized and shaken—but his dreams of winning races (and winning over Clare Carlin) push him back behind the wheel despite his lingering fear. As he returns to competitive racing, Bill must overcome his paralyzing doubts about his nerve and skill to prove he still has what it takes on the track.

When a fighter pilot's canopy jams during World War II, he plummets to his death—a tragedy that spurs the development of an automatic ejector seat. Years later, Major James L. Murray and two volunteers, Captain Vincent Mazza and Sergeant Victor A. James, push the experimental device to its limits, testing it at ever-increasing speeds in a jet fighter to prove whether pilots can safely escape from aircraft traveling at 555 miles per hour. Their daring trials at Hamilton Air Force Base challenge what scientists believe is possible and rewrite the book on aerial survival.

Click Wilson, a newsreel photographer, accepts an invitation to film a speedboat race from aboard a friend's sailing schooner—but the boat's suspicious new first mate, Dugan, has hijacked the vessel as cover for a narcotics smuggling operation. With the crew in danger and time running out, Click must use his wits and whatever he can find to reclaim the boat and stop the criminals before they disappear into open sea.

Johnny Gunn, a foreign correspondent for the New York Courier, stumbles onto a deadly mystery when a dying colleague gasps a cryptic clue: find the story in the blue flower. What begins as a desperate search through fog-shrouded streets and nightclubs spirals into a treacherous web of international espionage, where a simple blue flower becomes the key to a secret that powerful people will kill to protect. With assassins closing in and hidden messages revealing themselves, Gunn races to uncover what lies at the heart of the conspiracy—before the clock runs out.

Officer Tim Shannon's beat on the Lower East Side turns deadly when a homicidal maniac named Benny Blood escapes after a robbery, leaving a woman shot down in his wake. As the killer prowls the streets with murderous intent, Shannon pursues him through the night with cold determination, knowing that only one of them will leave this confrontation alive. A gripping tale of everyday courage against the kind of danger that walks the thin line between law and chaos.

When a crane breaks loose aboard Steve North's diving ship the Mary Lee during a storm at sea, it's only the beginning of his troubles—someone among the crew has deliberately sabotaged the vessel to prevent the treasure hunt from succeeding. As North investigates the mystery of who wants the expedition to fail, he must brave not only the treacherous Atlantic depths but also a deadly encounter with a giant octopus while searching for a lost Spanish galleon's cargo. With suspicion falling on everyone from his financier to his first mate, North races to uncover the truth before the saboteur strikes again.