Spy-Hunters #22

Bill Shannon, a New York photographer, gets caught in the crossfire when Communist agents ransack his studio searching for a photograph of Ginny King—a beautiful Korean-American who's actually a U.S. intelligence operative behind enemy lines. Racing against the clock to Korea as an accredited war photographer, Shannon discovers the Reds have already captured her, and he'll have to pull off a dangerous undercover scheme to reach her before it's too late.

When Lieutenant Pat Bryan of the submarine Marlin answers a distress call from the vessel Hokura, he discovers the ship is actually a Communist trap—equipped with secret sonar-defeating motors and crewed by enemy forces bent on capturing the Marlin to steal her classified antiradar paint technology. Taken prisoner and tortured to cooperate, Pat devises a desperate scheme to turn the tables on his captors and protect his ship from certain destruction.

When Hannibal's war elephants prove unstoppable against Rome's legions in the third century B.C., General Scipio Africanus dispatches his best spy to infiltrate the Carthaginian camp and uncover the beasts' weakness. Disguised as a humble peasant, the spy mingles with the elephant-keepers to extract their crucial secret. Armed with this intelligence, Scipio devises a daring counter-strategy that turns the tide of battle and secures Rome's survival.

Wes Osborne, a decorated pilot with a reputation for flying impossible routes, is recruited by British Intelligence to slip into Communist China and extract Dr. Charles Parker and his daughter Ann from the heavily fortified town of Wingyu—but what he discovers there is far bigger and more dangerous than a simple rescue mission. Racing against anti-aircraft fire and fighter patrols, Osborne must use cunning and nerves of steel to stay alive long enough to attempt the impossible getaway.

In post-war Berlin, spy Art Gates and his partner Boris intercept a black-market truck deal—only to discover the seller, Bob Grant, is actually an American intelligence operative working undercover. When Grant infiltrates their smuggling operation aboard the ship Parthos, posing as a communist sympathizer bound for Moscow, the stakes escalate from simple cargo theft to Cold War espionage. As the vessel carries seventy trucks toward a mysterious destination in Korea, Grant must navigate a dangerous web of suspicion, romance, and conflicting loyalties while a fateful decision looms.