Double Agent, by “Gene Stackelberg,” aka Arthur Eugene Adams (Popular Library, 1959). Adams (1917-2007) was an Iowa-born history professor at Michigan State University, and subsequently a professor of history and dean of the College of Humanities at Ohio State University. During various stages of his career, he also served as a consultant to the Central Intelligence Agency and as director of research for communist areas and a policy board member of Radio Free Europe. Adams wrote extensively about Russian history, a subject that informed his fiction, as well. Double Agent, which featured spy protagonist Bill McLean and was adapted as the 1967 British film The Man Outside, was his only novel carrying the Stackelberg nom de plume. He later wrote several other thrillers under his real name, including Quimby (1988) and Special Agent (2000), a tale dealing with the Colombian drug trade.
Cover illustration by Mitchell Hooks.
(Special thanks to author-publisher Lee Goldberg for correcting information previously contained in this write-up.)
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