As a professional hunter passes through a Central European country, he decides to sneak into the dictator's private compound and finds himself thrown in prison, enduring a harrowing escape, and fleeing through enemy territory to find safety in his native England.

A scientist working alone in the Amazon is drawn by local superstition into a terrifying nightmare of brutality and death Deep in the heart of darkness, Dr. Owen Dawnay has stumbled across an unimaginable horror. A dedicated agricultural scientist, he has set up a lonely outpost on the outskirts of Colombia's Amazon to study the flora that thrives in one of the most remote and inhospitable regions on the face of the Earth. It is the odd behavior of...

After years on the run, an assassin seeks vengeance against the Nazis It's been four years since Raymond Ingelram failed to kill Hitler. All it took was a slight change in wind to force his bullet wide and put the entire German secret service on his tail. Ingelram ran to England, where he went to ground in the wilds of Dorset and finally escaped his pursuers. Safe at last, he does the only thing that makes sense: He decides to go back to Germany....

"Claudio Howerd-Wolferstan is neither a communist nor a spy. Yet he breaks into a top-security government hostel to retrieve the family treasure. With a spot secured on the wanted lists of both the British police and Russian communist leaders, he is forced to run from a charge of high treason. A master of disguise, he bluffs his way out of many a dangerous situation and outwits his pursuers. But how long can his luck last? The speed of Claudio's transformations...

A collection of short stories ranging from the West Coast of Africa to the English Channel.

"The Third Hour is a novel of movement: the story sweeps over Europe and the Americas and its characters are drawn from all classes. It opens with the adventures of a young Spaniard, Manuel Vargas. In the midst of the guerrilla fighting in Mexico, Manuel has access to a shipment of bullion earmarked for the United States. It is beyond his power to get it out of the country, but he can bury it, and this he does in the hope of some day being able to...

Rogue male: Captain Robert Thorndyke tries to assassinate Hitler and is chased across Europe by the Gestapo. Cape Town affair: Secret information and Communist espionage come into play after a purse is stolen on a South African bus.