Spy-Hunters #7

Van Stevens, a reporter for the Federated Press, arrives in Batavia to interview Dr. K. M. Hansfeld, the Dutch High Commissioner, but finds himself caught in the crossfire of revolutionary intrigue when a mysterious Javanese dancer named Mekong tries to kill him—and he realizes he's seen her face before. Suspecting her involvement in a secret Communist plot that Dr. Hansfeld warned him about, Van breaks into her home to uncover her secrets, only to stumble directly into a shootout with her conspirators. Caught between shadowy spies, trigger-happy revolutionaries, and the local police, Van must figure out who's really pulling the strings before the next bullet finds its mark.

A seismologist's routine report of strange tremors at the South Pole draws him into a dangerous counterintelligence mission — foreign agents are suspected of testing a hydrogen bomb in Antarctica's isolated wastes. Recruited as a special agent and sent to investigate, he must navigate the frozen continent's deadly terrain and uncover the truth behind the detonation before it's too late. What begins as a scientific mystery becomes a desperate race against enemies who will stop at nothing to keep their polar secrets hidden.

A paranoid Persian king who learned the spy trade from childhood, Mithridates rose to power by conducting his own espionage—mastering languages and infiltrating enemy ranks before taking the throne. His personal intelligence network made him a formidable military force across Asia Minor, but his obsessive distrust and fear of assassination would come to define his reign in ways he never anticipated.

Jonathan Kent, espionage ace, investigates a break-in at Dr. Grist's home and laboratory—where a mysterious prowler is after the scientist's confidential papers on rainfall control. As Kent follows a trail of cryptic clues hidden in a bridge column and tracks suspicious contacts, he uncovers a spy ring determined to steal Dr. Grist's revolutionary process, but the deeper he digs, the more dangerous—and personal—the case becomes.

A reporter named Slim Harris stumbles into a deadly mystery when a mysterious buyer named Jose Vasco makes an unusually generous bid for newsprint, only to discover the man is caught between warring factions—a resistance movement trying to smuggle the paper for an underground newspaper in the dictatorship of Descamina, and Major Ospeda, a ruthless secret police agent determined to stop them. As Slim and Pepita fight to get the newsprint loaded onto a ship bound for South America, they must outmaneuver Ospeda's increasingly desperate sabotage attempts, from warehouse ambushes to a time bomb planted on the vessel itself.