This image is the cover for the book Spice Route Contract, The Joe Gall Mysteries

Spice Route Contract, The Joe Gall Mysteries

They trained him to kill—but now he’s gone rogue—in this action-adventure thriller by “the John D. MacDonald of espionage fiction” (Larry McMurtry, The New York Times).

The CIA didn’t mind when the army officer deserted his post in Vietnam and wound up killing a high-level Yemeni official. After all, that’s what they’d paid him for. But now it looks like he and his fellow assassins are going after targets of their own choosing—and it’s time for freelance operative Joe Gall to step in . . .

“I admire Philip Atlee’s writing tremendously.” —Raymond Chandler

Philip Atlee

Philip Atlee (1915–1991) was the creator of the long-running Joe Gall Mysteries, which is comprised of twenty-two novels published in the 1960s and 70s. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Atlee wrote several novels and screenplays—including Thunder Road starring Robert Mitchum, and Big Jim McLain starring John Wayne—before producing the series for which he is known. An avid flyer, he was a member of the Flying Tigers before World War II and joined the Marines after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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