Contents:

• Introduction by Cynthia Manson & Charles Ardai
• Explorers, Travelers & Fortune Hunters
  • Trapalanda by Charles Sheffield
  • Discovery by Patrick Ireland
  • The New Catacomb [“Burger’s Secret”] by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
  • On the Border by Lucius Shepard
  • The Dakar Run by Clark Howard
• On the High Seas
  • The Hidden Saboteur by David Braly
  • A Descent into the Maelström by Edgar Allan Poe
  • Typhoon by Joseph Conrad
• Lands of Snow & Ice
  • Icewater Mansions by Doug Allyn
  • The Fearless One [“The End of the Story”] by Jack London
  • Brothers by John Dobbyn
• Spies, Tough Guys & Private Eyes
  • The Living Daylights [James Bond] by Ian Fleming
  • Like a Dog in the Street by Lawrence Block
  • Dogs by Loren D. Estleman
  • Pay-Off Girl by James M. Cain
  • From Zaire to Eternity by Charles Ardai
  • Hooray for Hollywood by Robert Twohy
• Men on the Run — Men Caught in a Trap
  • The Phantom of the Subway [“You Pays Your Nickel”] by Cornell Woolrich
  • Caught by O. Henry
  • The Sire de Malétroit’s Door by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Executioner by Honoré de Balzac
  • Tarzan’s First Love [Tarzan] by Edgar Rice Burroughs & Gaylord DuBois, adapt.
• Across Time & Space
  • Frost and Thunder by Randall Garrett
  • Superwine [Basil Argyros] by Harry Turtledove
  • Davidson, Shadow Slayer by John Kelly
  • Rescue Run by Anne McCaffrey