Captain Carey, U.S.A.

Another soldier-of-fortune tale for the tough and taciturn Ladd in the vein of his OSS, CALCUTTA, CHINA, and SAIGON. Here Ladd recovers from wounds in the U.S. after WW II. While passing a display window of a NYC art gallery he spots a painting that had once been hidden in an underground hideout in Italy, one where Ladd and his OSS team worked as espionage agents. Realizing that only his team and an Italian girl, Hendrix, had known about the room, he begins to investigate, trying to discover who smuggled out the painting. All of his fellow agents and the girl had been killed; he alone survived. Now he believes he can unearth the traitor by following the trail of th...