T-Man #18
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeT-Man, a world-wide trouble-shooter for American intelligence, infiltrates an international smuggling operation centered in Cairo after his predecessor Pete Trask is killed. Working undercover, T-Man discovers the smugglers are planning to sabotage Anglo-American negotiations and that a woman named Tina and a man named Valdstock are key figures in the operation. After being captured and nearly executed, T-Man escapes into the Egyptian desert, where he recovers from unconsciousness and uses his wits to survive and pursue the smugglers, ultimately defeating their scheme by draining their getaway vehicle of water and fuel, leaving them stranded in the desert.
Agent Pete Trask is sent to Caracas to hunt down Basil N. Garr, a diamond smuggler who murdered fellow T-Man Floyd Collins—but the killer's network of ruthless operatives, commanded by the mysterious crime lord Bangar, turns the streets into a deadly maze. With only the unexpected help of local police agent Vera Sultana and a growing suspicion that Garr and Bangar may be one and the same, Trask fights to survive long enough to bring Collins's killer to justice.
Scratch Mapes walks out of prison swearing off counterfeiting money—only to pivot to a far more sinister scheme: manufacturing fake medicines to sell to unsuspecting drugstores and their customers. When a druggist discovers the con and tries to expose him, T-Man Tom Bailey takes the case, following a clever clue left behind to track down Mapes' operation and shut it down before more innocent people are harmed.
When T-Man Pete Trask recovers stolen counterfeit plates in Paris, Communist agents gun him down—but the death was a carefully staged operation, and Trask is very much alive. Kidnapped and spirited aboard the Border Express toward East Germany, Trask must outwit his captors Hoff, Malika, and Tina while racing against the clock to escape before crossing into the Soviet sector, where his only hope of rescue rests on a desperate gamble left behind in Paris. With each mile the train carries him closer to the Iron Curtain, Trask fights to turn the tables on his enemies before torture and interrogation extract America's secrets from him.
T-Man Pete Trask is sent to Cairo to stop the Anubis Party, a fanatical band of terrorists using ancient Egyptian symbolism to stir up violence, assassinate diplomats, and raid banks across Egypt. When Professor Krodin is murdered and Trask nearly follows, he uncovers a shocking conspiracy at the heart of the movement—one that reaches all the way to the Sphinx itself. From the streets of Cairo to the waters of the Suez Canal, Trask must expose the truth behind the jackal-headed killers before their scheme destabilizes the entire region.
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