Spy-Hunters #24

Cliff Vance, a U.S. counterespionage agent, infiltrates Pyongyang posing as a Soviet doctor to expose a dangerous Communist lie: that the raging typhus epidemic sweeping Korea was caused by American germ warfare. To prove the disease is actually endemic to the region, Vance deliberately exposes himself to the virus and must evade Communist forces while carrying the evidence in his own blood. With the help of Melong, a member of the Democratic Underground, Vance fights to survive long enough to reach the coast and deliver the truth to the free world.

Counterespionage agent Don Nichols grows suspicious when he discovers that Kay Farmer, a USO entertainer at the Korean front, has mysteriously appeared with no prior performance experience and possesses fluent native Korean—leading him to suspect she's working for the enemy. When Nichols learns that Kay's father has been missing in Communist-held territory since the war began, he realizes she may be broadcasting propaganda under duress, but the peculiar casualty figures she repeats each night hint at something far more complex than simple morale-breaking. Caught between duty and compassion, Nichols must untangle what Kay's cryptic broadcasts truly mean before he can determine whether she's a traitor or a prisoner sending a desperate signal.

When Communist operatives engineer an extortion scheme targeting Chinese families in America—threatening their soldier relatives in Korea unless ransoms are paid—an American agent and a vengeful young woman join forces in Hong Kong to dismantle the blackmail ring from the inside. As they navigate the treacherous waters of the Golden Bridge Canal and close in on the operation's headquarters, betrayal and gunfire force them to improvise a dangerous final gambit against the ruthless conspirators pulling the strings.