La Porte County Public Library System

Contains the story about Blacky Lee, an American weapons dealer, who impersonates Archduke Philip of Aldoria while evading Nazis and chasing after the affection of Countess Zita, and includes a preview to "Hostage to Death," a glossary, and a short essay about L. Ron Hubbard.

A republication of a 1938 story in which Lee Weston, wounded in a gunfight with Harvey Dodge, the man he believes responsible for his father's murder, flees to the mountains outside Pecos, New Mexico, where he is found and secretly nursed back to health by Dodge's daughter Ellen, only to earn her scorn when he insists on continuing his plan of revenge.

FBI agent Bill Norton is in an Alaskan fishing village investigating a heroin smuggling ring and a series of "accidental" drownings, but a troublesome heiress and mistrustful locals are making his mission difficult.

A collection of short stories by L. Ron Hubbard, including "Great Secret" in which Fanner Marston, having gone completely mad and lusting for power, embarks on a quest to find the magical city of Parva, in which he believes he can find a secret which will allow him to control of the universe.

Sergeant James Mitchell and Private Spivits are ordered on a dangerous mission to deliver badly needed supplies to an American consulate in the heavily bombed city of Shunkien, risking war with invading Japanese forces.

Nazi Colonel Erich Von Straub is sent to the U.S., disguised as an engineering genius, to infiltrate the aviation industry while two aerospace companies compete to design a plane, and as he conducts his mission, two competing test pilots accuse each other of conducting the German Officer's espionage.

American Sailor Kurt Reid is a hothead and a hard case-a man who hits first and asks questions later. As scrappy and rough around the edges as Jimmy Cagney, it's no wonder that when the ship's captain turns up dead, it's Reid who takes the rap. Falsely accused and under the gun, Reid jumps ship and vanishes into Shanghai -only to get caught in a web of intrigue, betrayal, and murder. In a world where nothing is what it seems and everything is for...

Running off to join the French Foreign Legion used to be every boy's dream of action and adventure. But for Lieutenant Bill Reilly-half Irish, half American, and like Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia, a Westerner at war in the desert-the dream has turned into a nightmare. And it all begins with the gruesome delivery of a severed hand. . . .The dead, gnarled fingers hold a message from the Berber chief Abd el-Ulad. He challenges the courage of...

Take a touch of Charles Lindbergh, mix in a dash of Evel Knievel, throw in one man-killing cat-and you've got a recipe for a rip-roaring adventure featuring the high-flying, hard-living Smoke Burnham. There's not a dare Smoke won't take, and there's not a wager he won't make. Now he's betting his life that he can fly his plane, Super Comet-with his pet cheetah Patty coming along for the ride-across the mountains and jungles of South America...

In the classic western movie The Searchers Jeffrey Hunter plays a young man with a mission in his heart and a chip on his shoulder. The character might well have been modeled on eighteen-year-old Lee Thompson, a trail-hand on a mission of his own-to save his dad, Diehard Thompson, the aging sheriff of Wolf River, Montana.Old Diehard's lost control of his town, and it seems every outcast and outlaw west of the Mississippi is on the prowl in Wolf...