On September 11, 1857, horror sweeps over a wagon train in the southern mountains of Utah. One hundred and twenty men, women, and children are brutally murdered. For more than a century, their bodies lay [...]
The night time streets are stalked by a serial killer – the White Angel – who chooses girls wearing white and visits them like the Angel of Death. Crime writer Ellen Carter has a dark [...]
SPIES – From Nathan Hale to Mata Hari to James Bond, the darkly glamorous world of spies and secret agents, whether real or fictional, heroic or criminal, continues to fascinate the public. Visit this clandestine [...]
Their fanatical courage struck terror in their enemies. Their fabulous wealth made them the most powerful men in Europe. Their secret rites inspired rumors of heresy. In the Crusades, these ferocious sword-wielding monks were charged [...]
Every city has its secrets – but who could imagine how many linger below ground, sometimes for thousands of years? Secret passageways, combat tunnels, buried palaces, Mafia escape routes and ammunition depots are just a [...]
He’s a white knight in a gray world, a man of morals who never compromises. Meet John Drake, Secret Agent extraordinaire. In the years before James Bond made his debut, Patrick McGoohan (The Prisoner,Braveheart) was [...]
Before he had a number, he had a name. Before he was The Prisoner, he was John Drake, Secret Agent. Patrick McGoohan’s first TV series defied all the conventions of small-screen spydom–the hero never ends [...]
He rarely carries a gun. He doesn’t indulge in frivolous affairs. He’s agent John Drake (Patrick McGoohan), and his top-secret missions for the British Intelligence Agency M9 are the stuff of legend. Drake’s reluctance to [...]
Before masterminding and starring in The Prisoner, Patrick McGoohan had already become famous on both sides of the Atlantic playing John Drake in SECRET AGENT (originally called DANGER MAN in the UK). A spy of [...]