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Summary: This book kept me awake until 4am.
Review: This book has it all - mystery, adventure, suspense, drama.
The characters are likeable and the plot is brilliant. This story will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page.
One of the happiest, saddest and most suspenseful novels I've ever read.
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Summary: I've read this book ten times, and am still not tired of it.
Review: This is a terrific novel. The first 20 pages are stuffy. But after the slow beginning Wren quickly moves into the action and intrigue, which don't let up until after you've put the book down. An excellent read! (It might even make you want to join the French Foreign Legion.)
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Summary: First Rate Adventure Story
Review: You have joined the French Foreign Legion and you are stationed at the most desolate outpost in civilization: Fort Zinderneuf, in the Sahara desert. The days are unbearably hot and the nights offer only a dreary, slight relief. The work is back-breaking and tediously repetitive, and several of your comrades have gone insane. Your leader, Sergeant-Major Lejaune, is a vicious, sadistic, disciplinary maniac. The men--dregs of society culled from every dark corner in Europe--have decided to mutiny, and they are planning it the following day. Lejaune, however, learns of this, and decides to move first. And if things couldn't get any worse, both parties have come to believe--rightly or wrongly--that your brother, stationed with you in the fort, is carrying an extraordinarily expensive jewel. They have made plans to see that during the confusion he takes a bullet to his brain, so that this jewel can be stolen.The sergeant strikes first, the sleepy men are disarmed, and he begins to move them out to the parade ground. At this point, the Arabs attack. A horde of them. Bloodthirsty, fanatical; they swarm down the sand dunes and begin to climb up the walls. How our hero gets himself into this mess, and how he extricates himself from it, is the subject of this very enjoyable adventure novel. The copy I just read, which I found in the library, was printed in 1926. It is still in print today. What else do you need to know?
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Summary: adventure and mystery in the Legion Etranger
Review: _Beau Geste_ represents some of the finest pulp fiction of the eighteenth century. The story is tightly told and compelling; the mystery is fun. Some of the social attitudes of the character might seem old-fashioned to modern readers, but the tale told is still a great one. After you read the book, check out the film versions of 1926 and 1939 (the latter with Gary Cooper).
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