Ripped from the pages of the February, 1937 issue of "Operator #5" magazine, here is the lead novel -- "Siege of the Thousand Patriots"! Over the Rockies and down the Pacific slope rolled the Purple Emperor's great war machine, crushing the last vestige of American resistance. Operator 5, seeing his cause already lost, decided upon the incredibly daring, typically American action -- counter-attack! Read here of his mad, secret sortie through enemy territory . . . across two thousand miles of hell to the guns and ammunition which alone could stave off utter defeat for America!