Across six thousand miles and spanning two continents an unseen hand moved living pawns over a chessboard of death. The stake was the life blood of a nation, the symbol — the Red Maggot — a fire to unholy ambition, the possession of which bound a man's soul to the Devil.
And Secret Agent X — man of a thousand faces and conqueror of kings of crime — found himself parried by the ageless weapons and black magic of the Far East.
Curse of the Crimson Horde (1938) by Joseph Chadwick writing as Brant House
A Complete Book-Length Novel Based on the Records of Secret Agent "X"
Chapter I – Death on Fifth Avenue
Chapter II – The Girl in the Road
Chapter III – Forty Fathom Fight
Chapter IV – Death Strikes in Mid-Ocean
Chapter V – Pall of Green Death
Chapter VI – The Pearl Kings
Chapter VII – Sting of Doom
Chapter VIII – The Man Without A Face
Chapter IX – The Cobra Death
Chapter X – Message From the Dead
Chapter XI – Secret of Lost Island
Chapter XII – Prisoners of Lost Island
Secret Agent "X" is a master of disguise and his true identity is never revealed. He adopts several different identities in each story. What we do know about "X" is that he served in the War (World War I) in intelligence and was wounded from which he got an X shaped scar. He is a dedicated crime-fighter working undercover for the U.S. government, although this is unknown to local police who consider him an outlaw. His true role is known only to newspaper reporter Betty Dale and his mysterious Washington controller, K-9.
Curse of the Crimson Horde was published in the September, 1938 issue of Secret Agent "X".
Curse of the Crimson Horde has 14 illustrations.
