smugglers

The Crook in Crimson – Drug smuggling in London? Mr. J. G. Reeder normally doesn’t concern himself with these kinds of crimes but this time is different.

Lord of the Lamia – An American archeologist faces a weird and deadly mythic ancient creature in the eons-old city of Cairo. Modern day thieves wish to control it but somehow he becomes the Lord of the Lamia.

War Stories – A collection of five early stories by John D. MacDonald, of private wars, espionage and old soldiers.

The Opium Ship – Two Irishmen, one a drunk, the other consumptive, are shanghaied into becoming crew on a schooner that has been hijacked to smuggle opium in the South China Sea. Between a typhoon, a shipwreck, a mid ocean rendezvous with a smuggler’s junk, and attending to two kidnapped women, this is not a leisure cruise.