Hubbard, L. Ron

Kirt Reid, having been charged with murder and larcency, decides to escape to China where he is recruited by a White Russian who is working against Chinese intelligence services and ends up being blackmailed into assassinating a Japanese spy.

Tom Bristol, press-ganged into service aboard the British HMS "Terror, " welcomes the chance to jump ship when the "Terror" is attacked by pirates, but his fortunes go from bad to worse when his new crewmates abandon him on a deserted island, leaving him with nothing to do but think of a way to get revenge.

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.

Jonnie Tyler ventures out of the dwindling community of humans in a Rocky Mountain retreat in the year 3000. Soon he will challenge the oppressive alien race of the Psychlos who have held the Earth captive for 1,000 years.