The first Hood novel.
The US edition cover: “Introducing an explosive new series of espionage thrillers starring MARK HOOD, the audacious secret agent from Intertrust”

Back cover of Aust. version, “It began so quietly for Mark Hood. It seemed at first to be almost a pleasure jaunt to the sundrenched Bahamas to investigate the strange disappearance of an MTB. But events moved with terrifying swiftness. Suddenly and unknowingly, Hood finds himself entangled in a devilish Nazi plot, brilliantly masterminded by a cold and ruthless fanatic.”

 

Australian Edition Back Cover
“ Hood lay breathing heavily after a strenuous karate workout. The expert fingers of exotic Bali masseuse, Alors, kneaded sensuously into his back muscles. He turned over. Her hands moved lightly over his chest, stomach, then, feelingly, lower…..
She seemed to know where she was going!
Intertrust Agent Mark Hood, was on a dramatic mission where intrigue and erotic Oriental beauties drag him into a seething vortex of violence”.

 

US back cover
“The plan is foolproof. Only Fan Fee Koy, the Chinese defector, knew the secret that would rock the world. And torture has silenced him – permanently.

MARK HOOD is the one man who suspects the truth. But he has just walked into the arms of a most curvaceous assassin….It’s one-upmanship all the way as Hood hustles to crack the brilliant scheme – a diabolical plan expertly designed to demoralize the West”.

The Australian edition back cover featured the official Intertrust Dossier file on Mark Hood. It began;

“INTERTRUST Dossier
Date: refer code YP Section: CX3
Name: Mark Hood”

 

Aust. cover; “International spy Mark Hood is confronted by the revival of a fantastical Samurai Cult”
US Cover
“Intertrust Agent Mark Hood meets his match: a smiling madman who holds the key to world domination…..a severed hand.”
This is a Hood classic and should have been turned into a movie.

 

 

 

 

 

All back covers: “a megalomaniac millionaire, a double-dealing con man, and a beautiful hophead. A floating pleasure palace on the Mediterranean, with a hold as big as the Ritz. The Plan; to intercept a Russian moon-shot just as it returns to earth with a payload that could ransom the world.
It was fantastic, bizarre, incredible and Intertrust agent Mark Hood didn’t believe it. Not until he saw that the conspirators were dead serious, and that he had to be serious too – or dead”.

This is another Hood classic. And could have easily been a great movie.

OPERATION OCTOPUS
EX-NAVY OFFICER ARRESTED
Mark Kingsley Hood, 36, a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve, was arrested by special agents in his luxury West Side penthouse and was charged with passing highly secret classified information on Navy weapons to the representative of a foreign power.
Hood was released on $5,000 bail and...
IT ALL STARTED WITH INGA.
SHE WAS TOO BEAUTIFUL, TOO
BLONDE, AND TOO PERSUASIVE.
SHE WAS A MERMAID
WHO PLAYED AT RAPTURE OF
THE DEEP- BEFORE THE FALL.

US cover
“She was the beautiful bait…a siren from the submarine city sent to lure Mark Hood into treason”.

 

 

 

 

(Mark Hood & his fellow Intertrust agent, Tommy Tremayne, arrive in Australia. Quite possibly this is
the last Hood novel).

US back cover; “To Intertrust agent Mark Hood, the trip to a ski resort to investigate a mysterious Count is
a wild-goose chase..
… then, abruptly, the wild-goose chase turns into a fateful duel of wits with a satanic genius who has ear-marked the great cities of the world for nuclear destruction – and who has the Polaris submarine to do the job. With six hours to go, Mark Hood finds himself in a sea scrape to end all sea scrapes….”