V-3 by Melchoir, Ib - 1987

Charter Books. Very Good. 1987. Paperback. The spine and both covers, next to the spine, are creased from reading. The pages are clean, no tears or soiling. The pages and binding are tight. All three page edges are yellow stained. The top of the front cover has a tear near the spine. The edges of the covers and spine have some scuffing from shelf wear. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 388 pages; Professor and chemist Einar Munk, age sixty-four is called back to active duty with the Counter Intelligence Corps when they learn that the poisonous exsiccating gas V-3, a gas developed by Hitler to succeed the V-1 and V-2 rockets. In the present, aging but still fanatic Nazis plan to unleash the gas and kill millions. Munk, who, as a wartime operative for the OSS, first learned of the gas's manufacture. His orders: find it and contain it. In this desperate mission, Einar is aided by his wife, Birte. Einar discovers the V-3 in a sunken U-boat, the canisters dangerously near final corrosion and each of them booby-trapped. One explosive episode follows another in this thriller, and the explosions keep the reader hopping as the enemy zeroes in. Will combine shipping on more than one book. .