Special Agent #5
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis anthology issue features "Special Agent" starring Steve Saunders investigating a hideout where gang members battled, with clues for readers to identify (answered on the back cover), and "Captain Blood," in which the swashbuckling hero becomes embroiled in the political turmoil of the fictional kingdom of Besonia—intervening when the tyrannical Arnault attempts to seize power and eliminate the rightful heir, Princess Alycia, who seeks to restore democratic rule to her people.
When a wave of mysterious deaths strikes the Osage Indians in 1920s Oklahoma—tied to their oil wealth—FBI agents infiltrate the community in disguise to expose a ruthless murder conspiracy orchestrated by a seemingly respectable businessman. Steve Saunders poses as a medicine man while his partners work the case from different angles, gathering evidence against Bill Hale and his hired killers even as witnesses remain too terrified to speak. It's a tense cat-and-mouse game where the Bureau must piece together clues, break alibis, and finally bring the guilty to justice.
William Gummere and his fellow students at Rutgers receive a bold challenge from Princeton to compete in a football contest, sparking excitement among the collegians who are eager to prove themselves on the field. This tale captures the spirit of early American college athletics as two institutions prepare to clash in what would become a landmark moment in sports history.
When a Buffalo businessman receives an extortion note in 1938, FBI Special Agent Steve Saunders joins local police in a carefully coordinated trap involving a decoy money drop, a circling plane, and radio-coordinated cars. As the scheme unfolds on the rails near Dunkirk, swift detective work and laboratory evidence close in on the two criminals behind the plot. It's a tense race between preparation and panic as the extortionists discover they've walked straight into the G-men's net.
Captain Geoffrey Blood answers an urgent summons to the kingdom of Begonia, where the tyrant Evol has seized power and forced the rightful heir, Princess Alycia, into hiding while propping up her weak brother Prince Arnault as a puppet king. Blood soon finds himself drawn into a deadly confrontation with forces working both for and against the throne, racing to outwit the conspirators and restore order to a nation torn by civil war. With danger closing in from every direction, the daredevil adventurer must navigate treachery and combat to save Alycia and crush Evol's grip on power.
A year after his parole, John Dillinger terrorizes the Midwest as Public Enemy No. 1, undergoing facial surgery to evade capture while Special Agent Steve Saunders pursues him across state lines. When an informant named Ann Sage offers a lead on Dillinger's whereabouts in the Chicago area, Saunders orchestrates a carefully planned trap at a local movie theater to finally corner the outlaw and his gang.
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