Secret Mission to Bangkok, first published in 1960, is a Cold War thriller set in Thailand. Colonel Hugh North, the hero of a number of books by author Van Wyck Mason, is on a security mission to shadow a leading rocket scientist who is returning to Bangkok in an attempt to locate his missing wife. The scientist's importance and intimate knowledge of the U.S. missile program make it imperative that he does not fall into the hands of Soviet spies,...

Colonel Hugh North faces cold war foes and intrigue on one of his most deadly missions.

Someone is plotting the start of World War III. Colonel North sets out to find the mastermind, but United States Intelligence calls him off the case. In spite of the five men mysteriously murdered, the government says there is no proof of the conspiracy. But North knows it is true. And he chooses to pit himself singlehandedly against a vicious ring of spies to prove it! A Bermuda houseparty loses its gaiety after the ocean races when Col. North is...

Captain Hugh North, D.C.I., arrived at Fort Espato (in English, "Fort Terror") with no thought of treasure or tragedy - but both awaited him there. An American army port superseded the old ruin now, but when the Spanish controlled the Philippines, it had been an ill-fated and much-used fort. Some legendary menace hung over its somber vaults and passages, but when two men vanished into its depths one evening and did not reappear, North saw only a living...

In Hong Kong, a company has developed a fuel additive that increases mileage markedly. All the world powers want it. But when the formula is stolen from the company safe, only Hugh North can find it-if he lives long enough!

Colonel Hugh North is sent to destroy a lost missile - and finds nothing but trouble in Burma!

Colonel Hugh North's latest adventure brings him to the oil fields of Venezuela... The Hugh North series is "high powered...unflagging entertainment!" (The New York Times).

The Reds would give a spire off the Kremlin to lay hands on Dr. Hans Bracht, America's foremost missile genius. And here he was on a Bangkok-bound plane with only G-2's Colonel North to guard him. The plane's passenger list made North sweat: MARY HOLLBERG, a shapely Fraulein who said she was a concert pianist but obviously wasn't; CHU HOONG, multimillionaire manufacturer of Dragon's Tooth Elixir; LITA NALINE, an exotic, sloe-eyed film star who developed...

When Mr. Wallace was found neatly suspended from a hook in the bathroom ceiling, with a slender chain around his neck and the wastebasket on which he had stood carefully kicked away, there seemed little doubt of it. Especially as there was a note in the dead man's handwriting saying, "I am worried, tired, and sick of heart. Why go on with this senseless struggle? Disgrace faces me." But -- why was the sheet on which the note was written shorter than...