Kent Blake of the Secret Service #7

Aug 23

Aug 23 Kent Blake of the Secret Service #7

Kent Blake

Kent Blake has joined a military strike at a location called Doom Mountain, which Kent has to infiltrate as part of his mission for G-2 Military Intelligence. He joins in a push to try and break through the Chinese defensive, but they are forced to go back. Returning to base, Kent meets with Major Kruger and Colonel Harnett who inform Kent that aerial recon of Doom Mountain has found it's peak camouflaged. Stranger still is the fact that equipment has gone on the blink and photos have been fogged when used around the area leading military intelligence to believe that the Chinese are using atomic energy in the area to build nuclear rockets. In order to complete his mission to destroy the atomic rockets, Kent is assigned to work with a specialist, Captain Farrel, who has been ordered to accompany Kent. After meeting Farrel, Kent expresses his concern with working with such a young soldier to Major Kruger, however Kruger assures Kent that Farrel is just the man he needs on his current mission.

Kent and Farrel return to the battle front and manage to slip past enemy fire and get across to the base of Doom Mountain. There they are spotted by Chinese soldiers but manage to knock them out and continue on their mission. After a treacherous climb to the top of Doom Mountain, the pair find that their commanders worst fears are true: That the Chinese are working on nuclear rockets on the top of the mountain. Checking his Geiger counter, Farrel also confirms that the area is rich in uranium and other fissionable materials to make the bombs, making it a strategic advantage to the enemy.

Spotting an enemy rocket ready to be launched, Kent and Farrel sneak up to it and divert the rocket to launch harmlessly into the sea and set it off. As they flee back down the mountain, the rocket's blast off destroys the enemy base, leaving nothing behind.

Back at base Kent Blake gets patched up by a medic while he explains the outcome of his mission to Major Kruger. When he asks what happened to Captain Farrel, Kruger reintroduces Kent to Bobby Farrel, who turns out to be a woman. They explain that they disguised her as a man so that Kent would allow her to accompany him on a mission. This turns out to be a delightful surprise to Blake who then asks Farrel out on a date.

Recurring Characters

Kent Blake
Major Kruger

Kent Blake

Kent is accompanying a group of soldier through enemy lines near the Korean city of Yanggu when an enemy shell blasts them mortally wounding their commanding officer Major Cutler. As Kent sees to Cutler, the dying man tells him that the only way the Chinese could have known their position is due to a traitor being in their midst, and tells Kent to capture the spy before it's too late and then dies. When the enemy plows through their lines Kent leads the others in the direction of the shelling.

When they get clear of enemy fire, Kent reveals that the enemy must have planted a spy in their midst. This causes everyone to become suspicious of one another. Soon they press on, with Blake warning each of the soldiers to keep an eye on each other. Marching into another shelling zone. As they try to find a way through, Lieutenant Trask slips away and they soon catch him giving their position away to the Chinese who shoot him dead for his information. Kent then leads his soldiers into wiping out the Chinese troops, killing them all. In the aftermath, the other soldiers question why Trask turned traitor, Kent has no answer for them, but believes that Trask got the fate he deserved.

Recurring Characters

Kent Blake

Journey into Terror

Kent Blake is among a team of soldiers that are caught under heavy shelling from the Chinese army. They fall back and witness as American troops are air dropped into the area and mowed down by enemy forces. Getting to a jeep they find a radio allowing Kent to call back into headquarters. Kent learns that atomic scientist John Kelter has been kidnapped by the Chinese in order to learn his atomic secrets.

Returning to base Kent learns how they shot down a Russian plane carrying Russian major that had come to oversee the Chinese offensive. They have Kent disguise himself as this major and using a Korean pilot flies to the enemy base where Kelter is being held hostage. At first Kent's disguise works but he soon earns the suspicion of the commanding officer at the base. When he finds that Kelter is being tortured, Kent arranges to break him out but gets caught in the act. Kent manages to grab the commanding officer of the base and manages to escape from their base in a plane with Kelter.