Legionnaire From Texas (A Foreign Legion Adventure Book 1)
Book Details
Author(s)Gordon Landsborough
PublisherPiccadilly Publishing
ISBN / ASINB00EUG3LIS
ISBN-13978B00EUG3LI3
MarketplaceIndia 🇮🇳
Description
The brainchild of Amazon Kindle Number One bestselling western writers Mike Stotter and Ben Bridges, PICCADILLY PUBLISHING is dedicated to reissuing classic fiction from Yesterday and Today!
LEGIONNAIRE FROM TEXAS
Serving in the Sahara desert there comes a time when a legionnaire has had enough: too much brutality; too much of everlasting sum and life in a desolate waste. Then a man cracks, and deserts. The big Texan deserted too. But not because he cracked. Why then had he joined the foreign legion under an assumed name? And why had a beautiful American newspaperwoman disguised herself as an Arab girl, and joined a caravan crossing the Sahara? Only when the two met was it revealed that they both had the same secret agenda, though for very different reasons. But neither of them realized to what extent they would become embroiled in a life and death struggle to survive…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gordon Holmes Landsborough was an English publisher and author who today is considered as “a maverick publishing genius.†Born in 1913, he was hired by publishers Hamilton & Co as production editor for their entire range of books. As part of his contract with Hamilton, he negotiated a deal with them to buy one novel a month from him. He quickly made sweeping changes to their lists of science fiction, crime, and romance and expanded them to include foreign legion.
Landsborough left Hamilton in mid-1951 to pursue his own career as a writer and publisher, but returned three years later and turned the company into one of the most successful businesses in Britain. In 1957, he started Four Square Books. Mayfair Books and the innovative children’s imprint, Armada Books, followed.
As part of his original contract with Hamilton & Co, Landsborough also became a prolific writer, and could eventually lay claim to almost a hundred novels. These included westerns and thrillers under a variety of pen names.
Gordon Landsborough died in 1983, aged 70. He had five children by his marriage to Louvain (Peggy) Hussey: Drew, Stuart, Diana, Bonny and Euan.
LEGIONNAIRE FROM TEXAS
Serving in the Sahara desert there comes a time when a legionnaire has had enough: too much brutality; too much of everlasting sum and life in a desolate waste. Then a man cracks, and deserts. The big Texan deserted too. But not because he cracked. Why then had he joined the foreign legion under an assumed name? And why had a beautiful American newspaperwoman disguised herself as an Arab girl, and joined a caravan crossing the Sahara? Only when the two met was it revealed that they both had the same secret agenda, though for very different reasons. But neither of them realized to what extent they would become embroiled in a life and death struggle to survive…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gordon Holmes Landsborough was an English publisher and author who today is considered as “a maverick publishing genius.†Born in 1913, he was hired by publishers Hamilton & Co as production editor for their entire range of books. As part of his contract with Hamilton, he negotiated a deal with them to buy one novel a month from him. He quickly made sweeping changes to their lists of science fiction, crime, and romance and expanded them to include foreign legion.
Landsborough left Hamilton in mid-1951 to pursue his own career as a writer and publisher, but returned three years later and turned the company into one of the most successful businesses in Britain. In 1957, he started Four Square Books. Mayfair Books and the innovative children’s imprint, Armada Books, followed.
As part of his original contract with Hamilton & Co, Landsborough also became a prolific writer, and could eventually lay claim to almost a hundred novels. These included westerns and thrillers under a variety of pen names.
Gordon Landsborough died in 1983, aged 70. He had five children by his marriage to Louvain (Peggy) Hussey: Drew, Stuart, Diana, Bonny and Euan.
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