Operator 5 #9 — Frederick C. Davis

Speeding through the silent blackness of the night, a long freight-train was laden with a cargo more precious than fine gold -- wheat! Then suddenly, the hirelings of Apocryphos unleashed red destruction, and the great machine lay wrecked, its cars of priceless grain afire… Another blow in the ruthless campaign that was driving a proud people, whimpering, to slavery -- overwhelmed by the cruel pangs of hunger! The four horsemen of the Apocalypse, thundered sharp-hoofed over the sterile reaches of a famine-wasted continent, while only one man -- Operator 5 -- realized the ghastly extent of the diabolical plot. And only he -- America's undercover ace -- could hope to bring the canny schemer to the justice he deserved -- death!