"Curtis Steele - Operator 5 - 3408 - Cavern of the Damned" - читать интересную книгу автора (Steele Curtis)

Originally published in the August, 1934 issue of Operator 5TM
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Copyright у1934 by Popular Publications Inc.
Copyright renewed (c) 1962 and assigned to Argosy Communications, Inc.
All rights reserved. Licensed to Vintage New Media
Operator 5 is a trademark of Argosy Communications, Inc.
By Curtis Steele
Secretly, behind closed doors and guarded portals the mysterious Black
Power of Zaava spread its hidden terror throughout America. What evil
force was behind the destruction of churches; the wholesale
disappearance of entire congregations? What sinister spell had fallen
upon American men and women to make them hurl themselves into
white-hot flaming furnaces. A trap worse than death is laid for Operator 5
when, in a final effort to combat this monstrous hidden power, he makes
his way alone into the Cavern of the Damned!
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Operator 5TM CAVERN OF THE DAMNED August,
1934
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CHAPTER ONE
The Eyes in the Sky
THE swift roadster swung sharply around a
bend in the black road that wound high into the
night-shrouded mountains. Its headlamps probed
into a wreaking fog; the glow of the dash shone,
bright in the clear blue eyes of the young man
gripping the wheel, and brought out the huddled
figure beside him. The driver kept silent as he
sped through the black confusion, as masses of
mist whisked past like flying ghosts.
James Christopher, otherwise known as
Operator 5 of the United States Intelligence
Service, was speeding north in response to an
urgent secret message received from his
Washington chief.
It had reached him while he had basked on a
sunny Florida beach, those few cryptic words
couched in Code 7. The code was the one thusfar
unsolvable cipher existing in the world; its use
signified that the secret message was of unusual
importance. One reading of it had brought Jimmy
Christopher's well-deserved vacation to an abrupt
end.
Following Operator 5's strenuous work on the
case of The Melting Death, which had followed so