The House of the Falcon and Other Exotic Places

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This volume assembles three of Harold Lamb’s classic adventure stories: the novel The House of the Falcon, as well as the novellas The Desert Driver and The Devil’s Bungalow. It also includes an introduction by John Betancourt. The House of the Falcon: Set in the early part of the 20th century, this fine historical novel by tells of a white man in North Africa who is drugged and kidnapped from a bazaar. What follows is a singular adventure…

The Desert Driver: Pekin, China. 1923. It’s a dangerous place for an American. But when you have a job to do, you need to get it done, no matter who is trying to kill you!

The Devil’s Bungalow: Malcolm Trent, of the firm of Hammerman, Lee and Rambaud ( Unfailing and unquestioning service was their motto), was a hotshot 22-year-old who had worked his way up from bank runner to invaluable courier. So, logically, it fell to Malcolm Trent to undertake-to oblige a client-to carry a certain package from New York City to India, and from there to Kashmir, which is on top of India, and thence to a point in the Himalaya Mountains, over the border. It was a valuable package, and he was warned that there would probably be attempts to buy or steal it along the way. But Malcolm Trent was as pig-headed as he was full of fight-and if he had a package to deliver, it would be delivered or he would be dead…