Van Wyck Mason

Washington—the Potomac—Chesapeake Bay—against the background of a beautiful and gracious city, a sleepy river, a tranquil bay, Captain Hugh North, against the most terrific odds he has ever encountered, fights his greatest battle. Here, in this list of the men and women who crowd these exciting pages, are his allies and his enemies, all participants in the mighty game of life and death. Here are murderers—and friends. Can you tell which they are? Watch them carefully—they have mystery and...

#8 in the Hugh North series. Captain Hugh North of the American Army's G-2 division is on hand when a peace advocate is attacked and robbed on his way to the Budapest Peace Conference, on the eve of World War II. Only North can figure out the intricate plots going on behind the scenes.

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

Captain Hugh North of the Army Intelligence has had a strange career, but no part of it compares to the peril and excitement with the case of the branded spy, and the singular chain of murders that, following it, threaten the peace of the world. From the beautiful girl found dead near an Hawaiian beach, with an inexplicable mark branded on her neck, North finds the threads that lead to the far corners and great capitals – Paris, Washington, Moscow … and to criminals whose ruthless daring is...

In the bay of Cienfuegos, a little Cuban town, the naked body of a D.C.I. officer was found floating one night. And the next, Captain North of the Army Intelligence was on his way there – with orders to find the facts. The wolves of the naval powers were already gathering at Cienfuegos around a cashiered American naval officer who had developed a new and mysterious invention. And beside the agents were the great international criminals always drawn by such an affair. The first intimation of the...

Colonel Hugh North is sent to destroy a lost missile – and finds nothing but trouble in Burma! The Hugh North series is “high powered . . . unflagging entertainment!” (The New York Times).

Colonel Hugh North’s wildest andmost baffling assignment leads to Zanzibar Intrigue! The Hugh North series is “high powered . . . unflagging entertainment!” (The New York Times).

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).

Down Shanghai's famous Bund swept the red tide of terror – until Captain North discovered the secret of the four copper coins, of the dying man who whispered, «Carol's doll,» and of the murderer whose goal was an empire!

"Third machine gun gangster dies!" came the newsboy's cry through the window of Judge Mackaye's stately residence in Deptford. A group of men were gathered there – powers in the life of the city, and before sundown two of them lay dead on the broad lawns of Deptford Manor, another was on the point of death, and Captain Hugh North of Army Intelligence was to take control. Murder stalked the quiet New England city – murder whose roots lay in a strange, bizarre tangle. Murder dogged...

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&apos;s handwriting saying, «I am worried, tired, and sick of heart. Why go on with this senseless struggle? Disgrace faces me.»<P> But – why was the sheet on which the note was written shorter than all the other sheets on the...

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 hand where others saw inexplicable terror....

MAN FROM G-2 MEETS GIRL FROM MI-2<P> Lady Angela Forester – fair, vivacious, voluptuous – and Colonel Hugh North – rugged agent from G-2 – made a handsome couple as they sipped their drinks in a plush London restaurant. The one-time lovers had met accidentally and were now renewing the glorious days of old. But something was different, Hugh kept telling himself. Angela had changed.... <P>It was only after Hugh North set out on his dangerous and delicate mission to Tangier – with...

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!<P> "A Bermuda houseparty loses its gaiety after the ocean races when Col. North is recalled to duty because there...