"It reintroduces the four characters Mundy created for The Ivory Trail, an anonymous narrator; the American, Will Yerkes; an Englishman, Fred Oakes; and the English aristocrat, Lord Montdidier. Montdidier, or Monty, is the titular head of this band, although, as in The Ivory Trail, he tends to disappear for long passages of time.
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Talbot Mundy was born as William Lancaster Gribbon; he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. He was a British pulp writer of oriental adventures. Best known as the author of King—of the Khyber Rifles and the Jimgrim series. His work was often compared with that of his more commercially successful contemporaries, H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, although unlike their work his adopted an anti-colonialist stance and expressed a positive interest in Asian religion and philosophy. —(from Wikipedia)
Talbot Mundy was born as William Lancaster Gribbon; he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. He was a British pulp writer of oriental adventures. Best known as the author of King—of the Khyber Rifles and the Jimgrim series. His work was often compared with that of his more commercially successful contemporaries, H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, although unlike their work his adopted an anti-colonialist stance and expressed a positive interest in Asian religion and philosophy. —(from Wikipedia)
Book Summary
"It reintroduces the four characters Mundy created for The Ivory Trail, an anonymous narrator; the American, Will Yerkes; an Englishman, Fred Oakes; and the English aristocrat, Lord Montdidier. Montdidier, or Monty, is the titular head of this band, although, as in The Ivory Trail, he tends to disappear for long passages of time.
The story itself has moved from East Africa to the Ottoman Empire and an Armenian redoubt in the mountains. Mundy has chosen to publicize the Turkish massacres of the Armenians and glorify their great resistance in Zeitoon, hoping, like the Americans in the novel, to spread word of the Amenian cause to the United States."
- Paul Cornelius
Talbot Mundy
