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This book is #12 of 23. They were published in the late 1960's using the James Bond super spy mold. Miss Eve Drum In Worlds To Come. When evil powers from Outer space attack Earth to wipe Out human sex, the Lady From L.U.S.T. takes a trip into a time 3000 years away. There, the all-girl master Spy finds that she's the Only living female in a unisex World Where men and Women have forgotten how to make love except in artificial Pleasure Domes and state-run Mating Huts. Eve's Curves and Crevices mark her as a throwback even in the dictator's harem. Only Eve can change the future. Sci-fi ...

This book is a thrilling historical fiction set in the 15th-century Renaissance Italy. It centers around Ilarion della stalla, who emerges as a formidable swordsman and a sword-for-hire to the infamous Cesare Borgia. His sword, a masterpiece crafted by none other than Leonardo Da Vinci, becomes a symbol of his prowess. Alongside Ilarion is his traveling companion, the artist Pietro Torrigiani. The story weaves through the intricacies of court intrigue and adventure, against the backdrop of a vibrant and tumultuous period in history. Ilarion's encounters with various Italian beauties add a ...

Planet Stories returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s listeners in electronic format.

From 1944 to 1953 Gardner F. Fox wrote for the pulp publishers while writing for comic books as well. This is a collection of his 10 best science fiction pulps he wrote for Planet Stories. The stories are like reading comic books but without the pictures. Gardner F. Fox was one of the most prolific writers during the golden and silver age of comic books. These pulp short stories are playgrounds for what he would ultimately contribute to such DC comics characters as the Flash and Adam Strange. The Stories are; The Last Monster, Man nth, Engines of the Gods, The Man the Sun-Gods made, Sword ...

Falsely accused of murder, Kael Carrick had been abandoned on Dakkan planet, without food and water, to face a slow, tortured death. But Carrick was no ordinary man. Before his death, Hannes Stryker, the man Carrick was accused of murdering, had rebuilt Carrick into a superman. When Carrick discovered, on that cosmic graveyard, that Earth was being threatened by the devouring Slarrn terror, he knew that he alone could save the world from total destruction. But first he had to save himself from extinction on dread Dakkan planet!

ENGLISH BOUNTY FOR AMERICAN SCALPS It was 1777, in a country torn by revolution. Promised gold for every American scalp, the Indians ran amok in an orgy of rape and murder. Nowhere was the carnage more terrible than in Kentucky. A handful of American frontiersmen challenged the combined forces of redcoats and red men, and first in their ranks was Alan Brant. He swore to kill with his own hands the renegade who had sold a settlement to the Indians and abused the woman Alan called his own. But the vengeance path did not run straight for the young woodsman. Death in the form of a murder charge...

FIVE BEDS TO MECCA (Lady From L.U.S.T. #4) Eve Drum, super spy and super girl, gets the wildest, toughest and sexiest assignment of her fabulous career. Eve's job: to stop a stop-at-nothing organization of Middle Eastern fanatics (A.L.L.A.H.) from touching off a holy war that will engulf the entire world. Working with her favorite Israeli agent, and figuring that the quickest way into an Arab madman's headquarters is through the infamous white slave market of Beirut, Eve arranges to have her milk-white body put on the auction block — and what a prize she is! After that the action goes ...

"Madame Buccaneer" sweeps you into the Golden Age of Pirates, where the New Americas are a tumultuous stage for high seas adventures. This historical fiction masterpiece thrills with the escapades of Lizzie Hollister and Martin Chandos, two rebels defying the might of the Spanish Empire. Lizzie, an English beauty as tempestuous as the seas she navigates, becomes a coveted prize for any man daring enough to tame her wild heart. Martin, a renegade Irishman, pairs his formidable seamanship with a gallant sword, carving a notorious reputation across the Spanish Main. Together, they lead a crew ...

The lonely grandeur of Greytowers castle, the hatred of her supposed relatives, the madwoman wandering amid the gravestones—all: this was Elizabeth Gifford's inheritance—should she prove the granddaughter of wealthy old Sir Richard. But the tyrannical Sir Richard had not yet chosen an heir. He played with his relatives as a cat would play with a mouse before devouring it. And then again, he had no answer to the question: Just who was in Elizabeth Gifford? Because there were two of them...

MOMENT OF TRUTH Anne did not want money, he thought. She wanted marriage ... as Beth wanted affection, as Janet wanted confidence in herself as a woman, as Veronica wanted the violent release of passion. And he, Willard Remsen? He was the other man in every woman's life, the lover who kissed their bruises and salved their pride. There was no substance behind such a man. He was superficial, surface bright, lacking character and responsibility. He was something to each of these women in the instant of their need, but nothing to himself ... He rumpled the paper in quick irritation. “It's the...

Strange and terrible creature... Inez came to Stark Island to catalog the library in Stark House, a rambling old mansion of field-stone and brick. Thus began her ordeal of terror, and her encounter with a madman's curse. She was taking a moonlight swim in Deepdene Pool, when she saw the creature watching her. As a wave of terror paralyzed her, she was saved by a young painter who lived at Stark House. From him she learned the legend behind the sinister creature, and the curse that followed the Stark family down through the centuries. Then came a moment of jolting horror in the family ...

DO or DIE! This is a tale of epic proportions, its action spanning two continents. The Liberty Sword follows the struggles of Benjamin Franklin and his first “spies” as they seek to turn the tide of the revolution against the British. Action, intrigue and romance are set against the backdrop of the greatest revolution in the world in this rich and powerful novel.

Adventurer Rod Damon—The Coxeman—has always believed the adage "When in Rome...." So when an undercover mission takes him to the Eternal City, he's ready to "do as the Romans do," and then some. Especially since his assignment is to penetrate the most complete palace of pleasure ever created. There is something for everyone in this supermarket of lust, plus a nasty extra: photos to remember it by. The Opposition is using the pictures to blackmail prominent politicians. If The Coxeman doesn't stop them, Rome may fall again. No one is better equipped than big Rod; he feels at home in any ...

Jean, the bastard cousin of the future king of France, fought his way across the battlefields of 15th Century Europe. His was the world that burned Joan of Arc at the stake, where morals were forgotten and rape one of the spoils of victory. Handsome, fearless Jean le Bâtard held a lovely, scornful temptress in his heart and a bloody sword in his hand to wreak vengeance on the murderers of his father and the hated English conquerors.

A BLACK MAGIC NOVEL OF TERROR THE DRUID STONE The supernatural rears its terrifying head in this strange novel of ancient sorcery struggling to deliver the modern world into the hands of the devil himself! Brian Creoghan's fight against this devouring evil in the haunting atmosphere of a contemporary New England village and in a strange barbaric land of thousands of years ago is an experience in the occult that fans of witchcraft and sorcery will find a chilling delight and an unforgettable adventure into the dark unknown.

There were other worlds around us before we touched down on Earth again. A blue planet where a massive azure ball glowed, sending out white streamers into a midnight sky, puzzled us. The azure ball seemed to be alive.... We saw a planet where only metal robots moved about. The world on which they lived was barren; perhaps the robots had made it that way.... As a scientist, I grieved for the lack of opportunity to enter and explore these visions of infinity. They went on and on, swinging into view and then out of view glimpses of reality until now shrouded from the eyes of men. On one world ...

Carty was a loner, the man they called “the Indian.” A white man raised Kiowa, he was wise in the ways of the ancient tribesmen, a man who could live close to the earth. He was also a man of honor and, if he had to, he would kill when it was time for killing. Carty owed an outlaw named Morgan Chance for a bad debt. At first, Carty thought Chance would simply back-shoot him in repayment. Instead, Chance offered Carty a proposition: If Carty would accompany Chance's sister to the Checkerboard Ranch, the debt would be forgotten. Carty accepted. The trip to the Checkerboard Ranch was a long...

A Trap of Terror... When Beatrice Perrine's father suddenly dies leaving her with little money, she has no choice but to become companion to Lady Ione Carlisle. But as Beatrice begins her duties at Carlisle Manor, she realizes that she has been hired to be more than just a companion . . . and it is with dread that she learns from the handsome Dunstan that the old house is known as "Folly Hall," built to the specifications of a madman. Beatrice soon discovers why, for she herself hears the strange sound of footsteps in the dark of night that threaten Lady Ione's sanity, and she sees the wild...

OUTCASTS OF THE STARS When Earth's stellar empire was attacked by the Lyanir, a powerful race from the uncharted stars, it was Bran Magannon, High Admiral of Space, who met their battle-challenge. He saved the Empire, but he also fell in love with the beautiful young Lyanirn queen Peganna, and to the people of Empire his name became that of traitor. Now he was a lone, brooding outcast among Empire's outpost worlds, called Bran the Wanderer. Then Peganna of the Silver Hair returned and told him of a fabled cache of deadly weapons left eons ago by the long-dead race of the Crenn Lir. She ...

THE COXEMAN GETS A BUG UP HIS BRAIN Rod Damon – The Coxeman – learns of an enemy plot to murder world leaders by planting a remote-controlled "bug' in the brain of a number of agents. The "bugs” are programmed to have the agents kill on demand. Rod's job is to try to join the enemy force, HECATE, in order to destroy it. But first, he must pass a series of tests, one of which is a test of virility. Rod is finally accepted and "bugged" for murder. But HECATE has outsmarted Rod. He finds that he cannot neutralize the assassination orders. More important, he finds that he has lost his ...