Top Secret #1

When the fifteenth man in a secret missile project vanishes, the remaining team scrambles to find him—because without Damon Charters, the entire design collapses. With Cliff Lawrence and Proctor racing against time, and Hugo the crook lurking in the shadows, the missing piece of the puzzle could be the key to victory—or disaster.

Professor Jarvis uses logic to deduce that his assistant Harris is smuggling secrets about "Project X" out of their heavily guarded facility—and when confronted, Harris's true allegiance becomes clear. Trapped in a desperate situation, the Professor must rely on his wits to survive an encounter with foreign agents who will stop at nothing to protect their operation.

George Lukor runs a bicycle repair shop across the street from a heavily guarded engineering plant—but it's all a cover for an espionage operation. Working under Brillhart's orders, Lukor and his operatives have spent a year smuggling out parts one at a time to discover what the Americans are building, and tonight they finally have the last missing piece. What they're about to assemble will reveal the plant's deadly secret—though not in the way anyone expects.

Benjamin Frame, a brilliant but aging aircraft designer, finds himself suspected by his own family of being a security risk on a top-secret fighter jet project—until a government agent named Baker recruits him to investigate suspicious activity around his son-in-law Carl Leeds. As Benjamin plays the role of a forgetful retiree to uncover the truth, he discovers a conspiracy far darker than anyone anticipated, one that will force him to choose between protecting his daughter and protecting his country.

A customs inspector reveals the ingenious—and doomed—methods smugglers employ to slip contraband past Uncle Sam's watchful eye, from false-bottomed trunks and hollowed figurines to jewelry hidden in coat linings and even hair. Each clever scheme unravels under the keen eye of the alert customs service, showing just how futile these illegal attempts truly are.

Master spy Jorge Lootens sets a trap to capture the elusive Agent Twenty-One by infiltrating the home of government agent Walter Rogers and his wife, using her as bait to draw out his quarry. But Hendricks and his operatives have been watching Lootens all along, orchestrating an elaborate counter-scheme that turns the hunter into the hunted. When the truth is finally revealed at the boat house, Lootens discovers he's walked directly into a snare designed to expose his identity and deliver him to justice.