Spies

by Scott C.S. Stone

By Edgar Award-winning author Scott C.S. Stone. MacTavish told him all he knew, and Hoon then pointed to Natalya. She told him everything, including the fact that the Americans were sending secret agents to intercept them with the stolen object. Hoon pointed to Stratton, who protested he had been kidnapped and was merely trying to get his cameraman and get on the air. Farley claimed he was the zoologist, Dr. James Bonde and felt immediately that nobody believed him. At the end they all had the same information, except for one thing, and at last Hoon turned to the Old One, "Now", he said softly, but with a hint of steel in his voice, "it is your turn, Old One. What is it that we all seek?"

196 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Born in rural East Tennessee of Norwegian, Highland Scots, and Cherokee-Shawnee ancestry, Stone attended Tennessee public schools and graduated in 1957 from East Tennessee State University with a bachelor's degree in English. Knighted in 1994, in the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, a Papal Order in direct descent from Crusader knights, he also bears the hereditary titles of Lord of Cullen and Lord of Drumtariff, both ancient Gaelic feudal fiefdoms of Baronial rank.

Stone has maintained a residence in Hawai'i since 1958. He lives in Volcano with his wife, Walelu Stone.

Stone is the author of 27 books. His first, The Coasts of War (1966, Pyramid) was the first Vietnam war novel. In 1969, The Dragon's Eye (Fawcett and five foreign publishers), a novel of Indochina, won the prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Award as the best original softcover suspense novel published in America. In addition to novels, many of his books are non-fiction, covering a wide range of topics, including Hawai'i's military history, a history of Honolulu, biographies of prominent islanders, and due for publication in 2002, a book with the biographies of 50 outstanding Japanese-American women of the 20th century in Hawai'i.

The island of Hawai'i, where Stone has lived for many years, is the subject of several of his books, including The Tsunami of 1946 and 1960 and the Devastation of Hilo Town (2000, Island Heritage), written with Dr. Walt Dudley, UH Hilo professor of marine geology and oceanography. Stone has also written on Hawai'i's volcanoes and other travel topics, as well as an economic overview entitled The Island of Hawai'i/from Sail to Space (1997, Donning Company Publishers).