Hostage to Death

This is another fun French Foreign Legion adventure novella that Hubbard wrote for the July, 1935 issue of Five Novels Monthly, one his best pulp outlets. The plot is a little more complex than normal with spies and betrayals and counters, but it's a fast-paced one and the reader can just bounce ove......more

A story of a French foreign legion man who gets tangled in a web of revolutionary plots in North Africa. This story is like Lawrence of Arabia, both in subject matter and in scope, and this book supported the insurgency against the French way more than I expected, thankfully enough. I also like how......more

Fun, very quick read. My curiosity was obviously initially piqued by the author and then by the quality of the cover and overall printing. The writing is solid and kept me entertained enough to finish it in one sitting. Picked it up for $1.50 at an ocean state job lot and plan on returning to buy th......more

I really like these Legionnaire stories. This one was a bit different, but it had all the things that I like in a story, adventure, battles, mystery, humor, loyalty, survival despite the odds against it. I could simply not stop until the story was finished.......more

Too condensed for my liking.......more