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Secret Mission #2

by Don Smith

Having helped the Agency once already, Phil Sherman was the natural man to approach for help in investigating a new group of gunrunners. While Sherman was to take the role of a seller to war-torn West Africa, the real goal was to find out who was behind the influx of serious weaponry to the Black Panthers and other black militants.

154 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1968

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

Reviews

[Alice · Rating 1 out of 5]

This series starring electronics salesman and occasional CIA operative Phil Sherman (he's so forgettable I had to look up his name) is just dreadful and I rather regret buying three of them in a Maryland thrift store because I liked the covers. Oh well, only one left to read. The attitude towards women is just jaw-dropping; the heroine of this particular adventure won't sleep with him (outrageous!) but it turns out this is because she witnessed the rape of her mother. Eventually she gets into bed with Phil and is cured. There was also some nonsense about gun-smuggling and Harlem gangsters, and quite a good bit set on a river boat from Bratislava to Vienna.