The Marcus Device

by Ib Melchior

Our top-secret weapon is missing. And America's top test pilot is missing, too. Full of a fierce, obsessive will to live, Tom Darby is about to test-fire the USA's ultimate weapon - when something goes tragically wrong. His F-15 fighter explodes in a ball of fire. He ejects into the killing heat of Death Valley. Crazed by injuries, he becomes a wild beast running for his life from unseen enemies - and from his rescuers. Even from his beautiful wife. American teams want him. So do sinister Eat German agents, headed by an ex-Nazi. They want him dead. Because they believe he possesses...THE MARCUS DEVICE.

270 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1980

About the author

Ib Jørgen Melchior was a novelist, short story writer, film producer, film director, and screenwriter of low-budget American science fiction movies, most of them released by American International Pictures.In world War II, he served with the OSS ,for awhile, then was transferred to the U.S. Military Intelligence Service, spending two years in the European theater of War as a military intelligence investigator attached to Counter Intelligence.

In 1965, he was dubbed Knight Commander of the Militant Order of Saint Brigitte of Sweden.In 1976, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films awarded Ib Melchior its Golden Scroll Award to Merit for Outstanding Achievement.

Melchior's novels include Code Name: Grand Guignol, Eva, The Haigerloch Project, The Marcus Device, Order of Battle: Hitler's Werewolves, Sleeper Agent, The Tombstone Cipher and The Watchdogs of Abaddon.