Spy-Hunters #17

Skipper Andy Goddard's tugboat the Seminole intercepts a cryptic radio message listing world cities, and when two mysterious men try to commandeer his vessel for a thousand dollars, he refuses—only to have them steal it anyway after a shootout. Now Andy must piece together what the coded broadcast means and why these strangers wanted his boat's powerful radio to receive it, all while the Seminole races toward an unknown rendezvous in the waters off Florida.

A captured government agent lies bound on a misty dock, facing execution by an enemy saboteur who plans to destroy a ship loaded with munitions and supplies destined for the fighting armies. The spy races through the vessel's dark corridors to plant a time bomb in the cargo hold, his mission nearly complete—but fate, in the form of an unexpected encounter, may yet intervene. This tale reveals the ruthless operations of the Kempei Tai, Japan's vast espionage network during the last war, where recruited agents were considered officially dead the moment they took the oath.

Spy operative Barry Gordon arrives in Morocco to recruit laborers for U.S. Air Force bases, but crosses paths with the spirited Zarina and a pair of mysterious spies determined to keep him from the Meknesi tribe—only to discover that a smallpox carrier has been deliberately released to sabotage his mission and doom an entire people. With the desert tribe turning against him and time running out, Gordon must uncover the conspiracy before an epidemic destroys everything he came to build.

Steve Rodney, an ordinary engineer, stumbles into a Communist spy ring when a panicked foreman at Empire Steel tries to flee with a stolen ingot of Durosteel—a revolutionary alloy designed to stop Soviet weapons. Now marked for death by foreign agents who'll stop at nothing to steal the formula, Rodney must outthink ruthless operatives and protect the classified technology before it reaches enemy hands.

Job Kattenanit, a converted Native American, is secretly freed from captivity and infiltrates King Philip's war camp to gather intelligence on an impending attack against the English settlers of 1675 New England. Racing against time through the wilderness after his cover is blown, Job must reach the colonial authorities with word of Philip's plan to destroy the town of Lancaster before the full moon rises. This true historical tale of espionage and courage shows how one man's faith and quick thinking prevented a massacre and helped turn the tide of King Philip's War.