Spy-Hunters #19

When reporter Mitch Jackson stumbles onto a murdered scientist's cryptic final words—"Witches'-Broom!"—he finds himself tangled in a communist plot that reaches from a museum laboratory straight into the jungles of Brazil. Racing to uncover the connection between a botanical mystery and a sinister scheme targeting America's strategic defenses, Jackson must stay one step ahead of ruthless operatives determined to silence him. A tense cat-and-mouse game unfolds as he pieces together the truth behind an international threat that could change everything.

In 4th-century B.C., King Leonidas devises a cunning strategy to capture a heavily fortified Persian city and its surrounding hill villages—he sends his most trusted spies into the woods with orders to create a carefully orchestrated illusion. As fires break out in a calculated pattern across the hillside, the Persian defenders become convinced they're facing an overwhelming force sweeping up the slopes, leading them to make a fateful decision that hands victory to the Spartans without a direct battle.

A high school student named Bobby Smith stumbles onto a sinister plot when he witnesses what he suspects is sabotage at the Soo Canal—a vital American waterway that carries the nation's iron ore. After being kidnapped by foreign agents and barely escaping a burning cabin, Bobby races to alert the authorities, only to find himself caught between spies and federal agents in a desperate struggle to stop uranium from being dumped into the canal. With quick thinking and courage, this young vigilant helps federal agents take down the spy ring threatening America's industrial lifeline.

Agent R493 goes undercover as Charles Dawson to investigate geologist Guy Blake, whose suspicious uranium surveys suggest he's working for a foreign spy ring. When Blake's cover is blown in the field, a chance encounter with a rattlesnake becomes the turning point that forces him to reveal his confederates and the locations of unreported uranium strikes.

When a Nepalese businessman coerces construction engineer Charles Hollis into traveling to Nepal by kidnapping his fiancée Nancy Desmond, Hollis discovers the scheme masks a far deadlier plot—communist forces are using the remote Himalayan mountains as a staging ground for an invasion of India. Racing against time in a hidden tent city high in the peaks, Hollis must outwit enemy guards, aid the loyal Nepalese Gurkhas, and stop a continental conquest before it begins.

When France faces catastrophic threats from Germany's new poison gas weapons during World War I, the French General Staff calls on Charles Binet, one of their most capable spies, to penetrate enemy lines and uncover the secret. Disguised in German clothes, Binet uses cunning and careful observation to learn the nature of the lethal gas compound being manufactured—and to secure evidence that could save thousands of Allied lives. His daring reconnaissance and the scientists' desperate race against time determine whether the French forces will be slaughtered or survive the coming bombardment.