{"product_id":"red-curtain-don-smith-9781954840409","title":"Red Curtain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe long-lost first novel in the \u003ci\u003eSecret Mission\u003c\/i\u003e series of espionage novels featuring international businessman-turned-spy Phil Sherman.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe year is 1959. World War II vet Phil Sherman remained in Shanghai after the war and launched Trans-Eastern Supply, an import-export company specializing in the legal trade of computers with Eastern Bloc nations. Now his business takes him to Europe, where intrigue, espionage, and rampant greed are running wild. He's approached to sell platinum from behind the Iron Curtain. This leads him into the dangerous arms of seductress Vera Maudet...and puts him in a killing field between the CIA and the KGB.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book was published under the pseudonym Duncan Tylor (which morphed into \"Duncan Tyler\" in later editions). Nearly ten years later, Don Smith brought back Phil Sherman for \u003ci\u003eSecret Mission: Peking\u003c\/i\u003e, the first book in what became the \u003ci\u003eSecret Mission\u003c\/i\u003e espionage\/adventure series that would continue for 20 more novels, ending with the author's death in 1978.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Don Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1954840403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781954840409\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cutting Edge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/26\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.46d","brand":"Don Smith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44809979920639,"sku":"9781954840409","price":14.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_475a98f0-2b9c-40e6-b916-2cc72bfc0c60.jpg?v=1707928000","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/red-curtain-don-smith-9781954840409","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}