Sam Durell / Assignment

“Sam Durell/Assignment” is a series of detective mysteries by Edward S. Aarons, who penned more than eighty novels between 1936 and 1975. The prolific Aarons wrote some of the novels under other pseudonyms that included Edward Ronns and Paul Ayres. In addition to his many short stories and novels, he was also an active author that penned stories featured in “Scarab” and “Detective Story Magazine”. While Aarons wrote novels in several genres, he is for the most part known for the writing of spy thrillers for which the “Assignment” series is the most known and most popular. The Assignment series are set on location across tens of countries around the globe and have been translated into almost twenty languages. The star character of the Assignment series is Sam Durell, a CIA agent that made his first appearance in the 1955 published “Assignment to Disaster”. Edward S. Aarons wrote the series right up until his death in 1975.