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Set against the backdrop of the pulp magazine era, this book explores the thrilling adventures of muscular heroes and captivating heroines as they navigate perilous situations across the globe. Their daring exploits not only captivated readers of all ages but also contributed to the creation of iconic characters that have stood the test of time. The narrative delves into the excitement and allure that defined this influential period in popular culture.

Two new Doc Savage novels in one volume! Prospecting in the Wyoming badlands, Patricia Savage spies a man swimming in circles-high in a cloudless sky! After he falls to his death, the dead swimmer is discovered soaked to the skin. Who is he? How did he manage to swim through thin air? These are the questions Pat sets out to answer when her cousin, the famous scientist-adventurer Doc Savage, diagnoses her account as a hallucination caused by altitude sickness. But when the bronze-skinned girl vanishes, the Man of Bronze is forced to take action. From the Bighorn Mountains to Devils Tower, Doc Savage and his mighty crew race against time to avert an impending tragedy created by a nebulous devil in human form who calls himself Mr. Calamity. Plus, The Valley of Eternity. A letter from Doc Savage's long-dead father thrusts the Man of Bronze into a personal quest that will change his life. And only Pat Savage can guide him.

Why did a desperate man shave his head before visiting Doc Savage headquarters, only to be struck down, his pulsing brain turned to inert stone? What sinister secret did his strange slaying silence? And how was a lizard-green shadow resembling Medusa branded on Doc's office wall? These are only some of the questions confronting the Man of Bronze as he pursues a grisly trail of petrified corpses to post-Prohibition Chicago, whose criminal underworld is being terrorized by a serpent-haired demon engaged in a seemingly senseless slaughter spree whose ultimate target will shake Doc Savage's men to their core. Suspects are many, clues baffling. Death and danger lurks everywhere they turn-symbolized by the silhouette of a faceless Gorgon. From the concrete canyons of Manhattan to the coal fields of Illinois, Doc Savage tracks a phantom fiend the likes of which he has never before hunted. Or is he the one being hunted?

An ultrasecret State Department mission code-named Moonwinx propels Doc Savage from the winter streets of Manhattan to the icy waters of the Arctic Sea... and into the frozen heart of Soviet Russia. Marked for death by the Kremlin and on a collision course with a nemesis more vile and vicious than any he has faced before, the Man of Bronze battles an assassin known only as the Red Widow, a master of disguise and a mistress of pain--as well as a venomous human spider poised to pounce without warning....

A desperate plea for help plunges Doc Savage into a maelstrom of horror aboard the Hong Kong-bound liner Mandarin, where the depraved minions of the phantom predator, Quon, hold sway. As innocent passengers succumb to the insidious Jade Fever, and ghostly talons pursue Doc's beautiful cousin, Patricia, the mighty Man of Bronze races to solve a riddle that defies reason.For deep in the spider-haunted ruins of faraway Cambodia broods a twisted, armless gargoyle with a cold face of jade--The Jade Ogre--whose power to project his deadly, disembodied arms to any place on earth makes him the most dangerous foe Doc Savage has ever confronted!

What would you do if you were a dead ringer for a dictator? If you were small- time grifter Walter Harsh, recovering in a hospital with a broken arm, you'd listen to a proposition that could net you a cool $50,000 for impersonating the South American strongman you resemble.