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    Flight of the Silver Eagle
    Flight of the Silver Eagle
    Flight of the Silver Eagle
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    Flight of the Silver Eagle

    By Arthur Leo Zagat and John Betancourt

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    Atkins fumbled in his pocket with shaking fingers, pushed the paper across the desk to the chief of the Silver Eagle. The red lines on it leered at him again, the ominous design that had pronged him with knowledge of the catastrophe that had overtaken Thomas. A deftly drawn dragon was coiled around the orb of Earth, one taloned claw sprawling triumphantly to obliterate the double triangles of the Americas.


    The chief’s grey face was almost expressionless as he touched the thing with a fingertip, but under his pale, inscrutable eyes little muscles twitched uncontrollably.


    “The token of Hung-Chen,” he said. “Like him to let us know that he’s defeated our last device against his spies.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateAug 17, 2022
    ISBN9781667622767
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      Flight of the Silver Eagle - Arthur Leo Zagat

      Table of Contents

      FLIGHT OF THE SILVER EAGLE, by Arthur Leo Zagat

      COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

      INTRODUCTION, by John Betancourt

      CHAPTER1

      CHAPTER 2

      CHAPTER 3

      CHAPTER 4

      FLIGHT OF THE SILVER EAGLE,

      by Arthur Leo Zagat

      COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

      Copyright © 1937, renewed 1965 by Popular Library, Inc.

      Originally published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, April, 1937,

      Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.

      Published by Wildside Press LLC.

      wildsidepress.com | bcmystery.com

      INTRODUCTION, by John Betancourt

      Arthur Leo Zagat (1896-1949) was one of the more talented authors publishing during the Golden Age of science fiction. His writing was always smooth and crisp, with well-drawn characters and none of the clunky, old-fashioned prose that characterized the work of many genre authors in those days.

      Although Zagat wrote a substantial body of science fiction (some in collaboration with Nat Schachner), he was truly a general pulp author, and he published more than 500 stories in many genres, including horror, mystery and crime, weird menace, and series hero stories (his heroes were Doc Turner and Red Finder). His work appeared in mainstream markets like Argosy alongside genre stories in Astounding, Dime Mystery, The Spider, Operator 5, and even the sexy adult pulps, such as Spicy Mystery Stories. He published much excellent science fiction in Argosy in the late 1930s and into the 1940s, including the Tomorrow series, set in a near-future, post-holocaust United States.

      Zagat was born in New York, went to school at City College, and served in the U.S. military in Europe during World War I. After the war, he studied at Bordeaux University, then graduated from Fordham Law School. He taught writing at New York University.

      In 1941, he was elected to the first national executive committee for the Authors League pulp writers’ section. During World War II, he held an executive position in the Office of War Information. After that war, Zagat was active in organizing writers' workshops and other assistance for hospitalized veterans.

      Zagat was married to Ruth Zagat; the couple had one daughter, Hermine, from whom I purchased his copyrights a few years ago. He died of a heart attack on April 3, 1949, at his home in the Bronx at the age 53. Had he lived another 20 years and transitioned into paperback books, as many of his contemporaries did, the whole history of

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