NIGHT BOAT TO PARIS Post war life in England hasn’t been kind to Duncan Reece. So when Boyler offers to pay him to retrieve a special bit of microfilm that the Reds also want to get ahold of, he accepts the top secret mission. The film shows the plans for a nuclear-powered space station and there have already been men murdered for it. Reece is no longer a patriot, but Boyler isn’t looking for a patriot—he’s looking for a thief. So Reece puts together a team: Tookie, an American ex-GI who has the contacts; Otto Lorenz, a former Nazi known for his efficiency; Samaur, a French giant of a man, for muscle; and the Della Vichia brothers, Gino and Marcus, the guns. The man with the film is hosting an exclusive charity ball at his French estate, and all Reece has to do is commandeer it, steal all the money and jewels… and somehow in all the excitement, find the film—and escape—without letting his team know what he’s up to. Because one of them is a traitor. “… a breathless tale of a British crook who was a Resistance hero during the war and now ten years later is pressured by British intelligence into heisting a high-society house party in the south of France to obtain a scrap of microfilm containing Soviet nuclear secrets... a great yarn with colorful settings from the Paris gutters to the hills of Provence, with all the action and twists and turns you could want…” --Sam Reaves “… an old-school, hard-boiled adventure that combines espionage, a heist, desperate criminals and ruthless shadow operators. There's plenty of action and shadow operating, but with a more sophisticated style than you get in a typical men's adventure novel… I can recommend this book to anyone who enjoys the early hardboiled spy work of authors like Donald Hamilton, Jack Higgins, Dan Marlowe and Edward Aarons.” --GoodReads Richard Jessup was born January 2, 1925, in Savannah, Georgia. He spent his early years in a local orphanage before running away as a merchant seaman. A voracious reader, he left the sea behind and began a career as a fulltime writer. He wrote more than 60 books, most of them paperback originals―westerns, crime novels, espionage, social dramas, sea adventures― either under his real name or as Richard Telfair. As Telfair, he wrote the Wyoming Jones western series and the Montgomery Nash spy thrillers for Gold Medal Books. Jessup’s best known work, The Cincinnati Kid in 1964, was filmed with Steve McQueen and Ann-Margaret. His last novel, Threat, was published in 1981. Jessup died from cancer on October 22, 1982, in Nokomis, Florida.