New Releases by F. van Wyck Mason

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, already aware of their arrival. Along the way, North encounters beautiful women and some of Bangkok’s kingpins. F. Van Wyck Mason (1901-1978) published more than 60 books in his long career, including Colonel Hugh North thrillers, mysteries and science fiction.

Colonel Hugh North was headed for the most perilous mission to which G-2 had ever assigned him. His job was to stop a multimillion-dollar deal that could shatter the security of the United States. But those involved in the deal, three luscious women and five unscupulous men, weren't going to let that kind of money slip through their fingers--even if it meant more than one murder.

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!

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. F. Van Wyck Mason's "Phalanxes of Atlans" is the twenty-fourth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. A lost world in the wilds of the Arctic! Only in dim legends did mankind remember Atlantis and the Lost Tribes, that is, until Victor Nelson's extraordinary adventure into the Arctic unknown. Nelson and his pal, Richard Alden, had been forced down during a flight over a previously unexplored Arctic region. Their situation was desperate. And when Alden became lost, Nelson knew it was only a matter of time before his pal would perish in the Arctic cold. But when he found traces of a bloody struggle, Nelson knew Alden had been taken-forcibly. But by who¿and why? Soon Nelson found himself following a trail into a forgotten world-a world filled with prehistoric beasts and lost Atlantean civilizations. And it was in this fantastic realm that Victor Nelson soon found the adventure of a lifetime.

F. Van Wyck Mason (1901-1978) was an American historian and novelist. He had a long and prolific career as a writer spanning 50 years and including 65 published novels. Few today realize that he wrote for the pulp magazines of the early 20th century, in a variety of genres. This science fiction novel appeared in the pulp magazine Astounding Stories (under the byline "F.V.W. Mason") in 1931. Mason's vivid characterization and exciting action, typical of his later best-selling mystery and historical novels, are evident here as well.