Off the Mangrove Coast (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures) - Stories

Informationen zum Autor Our foremost storyteller of the American West,  Louis L’Amour  has thrilled a nation by chronicling the adventures of the brave men and woman who settled the frontier. There are more than three hundred million copies of his books in print around the world. Klappentext As part of the Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials! From the jungles of Borneo to the hidden canyons of the American West, from small-town fight clubs to a Parisian café at the end of World War II, here are tales of betrayal and revenge, courage and cowardice, glory and greed, as only Louis L'Amour can tell them. Here is L'Amour at his very best: A charismatic boxer itches to fight all comers-but his only shot at the championship is in beating the man who ruined his father. . . . A beautiful movie star finds a dead man in her apartment and begs her ex-lover, a tough private eye, to clear her name. . . . A reluctant hero guides a diamond-hunting couple up a river ruled by headhunters and pirates in pursuit of a legendary stone and the mysterious warlord who guards it. . . . A young renegade sails the South China Sea with a trio of dangerous men in search of treasure, but when it's time to divide the prize, can he trust any of them? Combining electrifying action scenes, vivid historical detail, and characters who seem to leap off the page, these spectacular stories honor the legend of Louis L'Amour. Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures is a project created to release some of the author's more unconventional manuscripts from the family archives. In Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volumes 1, Beau L'Amour takes the reader on a guided tour through many of the finished and unfinished short stories, novels, and treatments that his father was never able to publish during his lifetime. L'Amour's never-before-seen first novel, No Traveller Returns, faithfully completed for this program, is a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas. These exciting publications will be followed by Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 2. Additionally, many beloved classics will be rereleased with an exclusive Lost Treasures postscript featuring previously unpublished material, including outlines, plot notes, and alternate drafts. These postscripts tell the story behind the stories that millions of readers have come to know and cherish. FIGHTERS SHOULD BE HUNGRY   I   A  brutal blow in the ribs jerked Tandy Moore from a sound sleep. Gasping, he rolled into a fetal position and looked up to see a brakeman standing over him with his foot drawn back for another kick. With a lunge Tandy was on his feet, his dark eyes blazing. Fists cocked, he started for the brakeman, who backed suddenly away. “Unload!” he said harshly. “Get off! An’ be quick about it!”   Tandy was a big young man with wide shoulders and a sun-darkened face, darkened still further by a stubble of black beard. He chucked with cold humor.   “Nope,” Tandy said grimly, and with relish. “If you want me off, you put me off! Come on, I’m going to like this!”   Instead of a meek and frightened tramp, the brakeman had uncovered a wolf with bared teeth. The brakeman backed away still farther.   “You get off!” he insisted. “If that bull down to the yards finds you here, he’ll report it an’ I’ll get chewed out!”   Tandy Moore relaxed a bit. “You watch yourself, mister! You can lose teeth walkin’ up an’ kickin’ a guy that way!” He grabbed the edge of the gondola and lifted himself to the top, then swung his feet over to the ladder. “Say, Jack? What town is this anyway? Not that it makes much difference.”   “Astoria, Oregon. End of the line.”   “Thanks.” Tandy climbed down the ladder, gauged the speed of the train, and dropped off, hitting the cinders on the run.  

Product details

• Authors: Louis L'amour
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780525486305
• ISBN: 978-0-525-48630-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 104 mm x 170 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures; Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature