A decorated combat pilot returns from Vietnam to begin duties in Research & Development, involving top secret projects in ICBM guidance and spy satellites. His clearances and expertise lead to recruitment by the CIA to gather information at an international symposium in Bonn, to be attended by Western and Soviet scientists and engineers. He gets mixed up with double agents (one a deadly female), moles, and murder, and is even kidnapped, his abductor planning to transport him somehwere in the Eastern Bloc. And he really didn't want to do this in the first place.

Antoninus Gyro (Tony Hero), Major, USAF, is drafted into the secret agent business once again, this time not by the CIA, but by an unknown somebody in Washington. At least someone wants him, because no one at Los Angeles Air Force station does. And while Tony would rather just keep woking on the mathematics of satellite orbits, and the mystery recruiter in Washington probably means more of that clandestine stuff, order are orders. In a way, he gets his wish. His main job will be mathematical advisor on two Top Secret satellite programs. His cover job will be Chief of the Air Force Seismology...

Antoninus Gyro (Tony Hero) is supposed to be Chief Seismologist for the Air Force. Instead, this former combat pilot and satellite orbit mathematician has been brought into the world of Pompeii Mudd, head of an unnamed group which protects American interests as no one else can. Mudd lets Tony's day job remain cover for various assignments in catching bad guys. In this episode, Tony is still waiting for his wife and family to join him in Washington. Mudd wants to use Tony's temporary bachelorhood one more time, now to romance a woman Tony has romanced and deserted once already. The woman,...

Antoninus Gyro (Tony Hero), Major, USAF, is relatively happy. His wife has finally joined him in D.C., he's enjoying his day job as Chief of the Air Force Seismology Office, and he hasn't been tasked for any clandestine missions for a while. The man who gave him these missions, Pompeii Mudd, seems to have forgotten him. Or not. Mudd, who is on no organizational chart but appears to be connected to everyone, needs Tony one more time. He wants to take down a triple agent, Etel Rosenberg, who is ensconced in the Israeli Embassy. The Israelis are content to watch and wait for Rosenberg to make a...

Alan Roderick, born in 1831 on the estate of James Maxwell's parents, is a childhood friend and school mate of James. In 1849 Alan takes off for California. James becomes a great scientist. Alan, changing his name to Damon Maxwell, becomes a great adventurer. Living through the gold rush and a year of outlawing with Joaquin Murrieta, Damon has established himself as a prosperous and respected member of the San Francisco community. He has a new life and a new love. It is then he learns, from his 200 year old great-great-great-grandfather about their little family secret. They can't grow old...

Damon Maxwell, the man who doesn't age, has accepted work as Chief of Security for the Holy Roman Empire. He lives in Croatia rather than Vienna, to stay closer to his biggest problem, Serbia. Now over eighty, he still looks to be in his twenties. He likes his life but is sure the Habsburgs are bungling the rule of an empire. He's already thinking of a change in employment Before he can decide on that change, he is made aware of a plot by a phantom group in Belgrade, a plot to assassinate a member of the Royal Family, the Archduchess Gisela. He can't let that happen on his watch. He has a...

Poems on various subjects. All are virtually meaningless, although some are obscure enough to make one think they are profound.