Red Curtain

Secret Mission #.5

by Don Smith, Duncan Tyler

The long-lost first novel in the Secret Mission series of espionage novels featuring international businessman-turned-spy Phil Sherman. The year is 1959. World War II vet Phil Sherman remained in Shanghai after the war and launched Trans-Eastern Supply, an import-export company specializing in the legal trade of computers with Eastern Bloc nations. Now his business takes him to Europe, where intrigue, espionage, and rampant greed are running wild. He's approached to sell platinum from behind the Iron Curtain. This leads him into the dangerous arms of seductress Vera Maudet...and puts him in a killing field between the CIA and the KGB. This book was published under the pseudonym Duncan Tylor (which morphed into "Duncan Tyler" in later editions). Nearly ten years later, Don Smith brought back Phil Sherman for Secret Peking , the first book in what became the Secret Mission espionage/adventure series that would continue for 20 more novels, ending with the author's death in 1978.

202 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1959

About the author

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Don Smith (August 2, 1909-January 11, 1978) was a Canadian writer of detective and spy fiction. He is best remembered for his Secret Mission series of novels, starring the businessman-turned-spy Phil Sherman.

Smith was born Donald Taylor Smith in Port Colborne, Ontario. In 1934-1939 he was a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star in Beijing and he piloted a fighter in the Royal Air Force during WWII. He was decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross for his participation in the Dieppe Raid in 1942.After the war he lived in Morocco and Majorca, manning different businesses before becoming a full-time writer in his 50s.

source: Wikipedia