Assignment Burma Girl Author:Edward S. Aarons Two Americans vanish mysteriously in the cold war jungle of Southeast Asia, and the call goes out for Sam Durrell. The First Man had been given up for dead long ago and in another country. Now, twenty years later, there came a single bright shred of evidence that he was still alive. — They sent the Second Man to find him. He got himself taken by... more » guerillas, who stuffed him into a bamboo cage and hung him from a tree to see if he'd sing or croak.
That's when the Third Man came into the picture. His name was Sam Durrell, and he was a tougher cookie than the other two. A great suspense novel in the series the NYTimes calls "among the best modern adventure stories of espionage and international intrigue."« less