Spy-Hunters #20

When physicist Anton Radek defects to Czechoslovakia with H-bomb secrets, special agent Phil Smetana—an ex-pilot fluent in the language—is dispatched behind the Iron Curtain to track him down and bring him home alive. Equipped with a false identity and a dangerous plan, Smetana infiltrates a vast underground Communist weapons facility, enduring humiliation and hard labor to gain the trust he'll need to complete his mission. With the balance of world power hanging in the balance, every move could be his last.

Captain Jim Brannon and Technical Sergeant Tony Utrillo infiltrate North Korean Communist lines disguised as a Russian general and his aide, tasked with photographing the enemy's battle strategy before a major offensive. Racing against a three-day deadline, the two American specialists must navigate enemy territory, evade detection, and get their crucial intelligence back to Allied forces—all while the clock counts down to the Red Army's attack. It's a desperate gamble where failure means not just their lives, but potentially the loss of a vital military advantage.

Mike Harvey arrives in Vienna determined to uncover the truth behind his best friend Major Banford's death two years earlier—officially ruled an accident when Banford fell from the Berlin Express, but Harvey suspects something darker. As he pieces together statements from railway staff and discovers a photograph linking Banford to a woman named Greta Wilsdorf, Harvey finds himself entangled with the Communist Security Police, who seem very interested in keeping the case closed. His investigation leads him face-to-face with Otto Bockmann, the ruthless head of Vienna's secret police, and the shocking confession that reframes everything Harvey thought he knew about that fateful day.

During World War I, the French Secret Service recruits Marthe Richer, a woman determined to avenge her husband's death at German hands, for a dangerous undercover operation in Spain. Posing as a German sympathizer while feigning ignorance of their language, she infiltrates the confidence of German officers and agents, passing carefully orchestrated intelligence back to her handler, Captain Ladoux. Her courage and cunning prove devastatingly effective, as the secrets she uncovers help sink enemy submarines, thwart German plots, and save countless French lives.