Dynamite #1

Ed Wells, a government courier tasked with delivering a top-secret briefcase to the American Embassy in London, finds himself ambushed and captured by enemy agents during his transatlantic voyage. Fighting for his life after a desperate escape, Wells must rely on his wits and a crucial secret he's memorized to complete his mission and outwit the spies who've targeted him.

Two rival steeplejacks—Neal Raymond and Tom Carmichael—can barely stand each other, and when they're forced to work together on a dangerous flagpole job, their simmering hatred boils over into a rooftop fight. Months later, assigned to another perilous task on a gas plant chimney, Raymond must make an impossible choice when Carmichael collapses from toxic fumes high above the ground, with only his former enemy standing between life and death.

Custom agent John Nichols goes deep undercover with the Lasher mob, posing as a corrupt dock official eager to move illegal narcotics through New York. Over weeks of careful infiltration, Nichols builds their trust while his partner Bill Allen records every incriminating conversation—all leading toward a final confrontation with the suppliers and dealers behind the morphine ring. This is one agent's methodical war against the traffickers poisoning America's streets.

Red Hathaway is a skilled logger trying to make his way at the Weyman Lumber Company—until he stands up to Mike Stone, the crew's brutal "faller," and earns himself a dangerous enemy. When Stone's bullying and a sabotaged tree nearly claim Red's life, the two men's long-simmering feud finally comes to a head in a desperate fight that will settle everything between them. This tale of pride and redemption plays out against the roar of falling timber and the unforgiving work of the logging camps.