Explorer Joe #2

Joe Thomas leads an expedition to the islands west of Greenland in search of Viking relics, but the locals warn of a fearsome red-bearded giant haunting Shumnaki Island—especially during the full moon. When Joe and his party land on the mysterious island, they discover far more than ancient treasure: a hidden cave system that conceals a secret submarine base, and the "ghost of Eric the Red" is no ghost at all. Now trapped and facing Colonel Tamara and her armed forces, Joe must find a way to escape and expose what's really hidden beneath the Arctic ice.

Explorer Joe Thomas arrives in Darjeeling to recover vital data from a fallen explorer, only to find himself drawn into a mystery surrounding the deaths of two climbers on the peak of Chomo-Lalti. As Joe prepares to ascend the mountain, he uncovers a dangerous web of deception involving murder, a missing diary, and secrets worth killing for. What Joe discovers at the summit will force him to confront a killer who's still very much alive and willing to go to extreme lengths to keep the truth buried.

Tom Deering, a free-lance adventurer, is dispatched by the U.S. government on a covert mission to the South Pole to locate a lost expedition searching for plutonium deposits—and to uncover what happened to them. When Deering's submarine surfaces near an ice shelf, he discovers the expedition's sole survivor, a young boy, fleeing hostile forces determined to seize the precious metal discovery for themselves. With enemy submarines closing in and time running out, Deering must navigate treacherous polar waters and confront the Communist operatives threatening to claim the mission's secrets.

In Lhasa, Tibet, Explorer Joe Thomas joins a merchant's caravan headed for a mountain monastery, hoping to find his father—a Buddhist monk—while his sidekick Gadabout Swanson watches his back. When bandits attack and the merchant Timor is gravely wounded, the group seeks refuge at the Monastery of Rhisa, where an English doctor named Fredric Harwell tends to him; but Joe recognizes something troubling in the doctor's manner and bearing. As Joe's suspicions grow, he uncovers a dangerous secret that forces a confrontation on the mountainside and sets him on a new path to find his father elsewhere.