Twenty-eight Books of Adventure, War & Pirates by L. Ron Hubbard
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Overview: L. Ron Hubbard (1911 – 1986), often referred to by his initials, LRH, was an American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology. Hubbard established his career as a writer with science fiction and fantasy novels, including the novel Battlefield Earth, which was adapted into a feature film in 2000. He was also a prolific writer of Mysteries, Thrillers, Adventures, Westerns and Romances… Starting in the 1950s, Hubbard created a system called Dianetics, which is a wide-ranging set of doctrines and practices that became the foundation of the religious movement Scientology.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
All Frontiers Are Jealous
American engineer Dan Courtney attempts to survey a railway route through the jungles of central Africa only to be sidetracked when he discovers that an alluring American woman has been kidnapped by the fearsome Dinka warrior tribe. But the plot thickens when he attempts to rescue her and stumbles headlong into a diamond smuggling operation, and the perpetrators want Courtney out of the picture–permanently.
Black Towers to Danger
Drilling for oil is a dirty business, and for Bill Murphy, it’s about to turn positively filthy. But Murphy’s a man in the mold of a young John Wayne, and he’s more than a match for everything Venezuela can throw at him. Everything, that is, except for Marcia Stewart. She’s convinced Murphy killed her father, and she wants revenge. Murphy’s drilling down for the truth, and it’s his land, his love for Marcia—and his life—that are on the line.
Destiny’s Drum
When former captain of this army and that, Phil Sheridan, lands on the shore of the forgotten Indonesian island of Kamling jewel of the Banda Sea he’s captured instead of welcomed by warriors of a primitive and bloodthirsty tribe. Marched to the natives’ camp, he meets Jose Emanuel Batista one-time slave trafficker, long-time murderer, and now self-appointed tyrant. Using his smooth-talking tongue and shooting skills to escape, Sheridan finds temporary shelter at the lodgings of a miner and his beautiful daughter. With limited arms and supplies to hold off Batista and his men, Sheridan must take a desperate chance and journey ever deeper into the jungle. His plan? Enlist the help of headhunters who may be more interested in his head than in driving out Batista’s regime and ending its tyrannical reign.
False Cargo
Discover intrigue. Brent Calloway is hired by an insurance firm to board a cargo vessel undercover and ensure it makes its way to San Diego in one piece. Once the voyage is underway, Calloway finds fraud, a pattern of organized scuttlings and the true fate of another vessel captained by an old friend. But when Calloway’s true identity is revealed, he must fight for his life—and the real danger begins. ALSO INCLUDES THE ADVENTURE STORY "GROUNDED"
Fifty-Fifty O’Brien
Winchester Smith is a crack shot. Problem is, his talent is going to waste, knocking down ducks in a shooting gallery. Win wants some real action, and like Gary Cooper as Sergeant York, he’s going to war, joining the U.S. Marines to fight in Central America. But serving as a messenger, he has little chance to put his rifle to use. When he does, he ends up facing a disciplinary hearing for disobeying orders. In order to redeem himself, Win will have to deliver a message that the Marines will never forget.
Forbidden Gold
The Yucatan jungle hides a world of secrets . . . of wealth, love, and fate. Daredevil pilot Kurt Reid is about to fly into the heart of it in search of his destiny—and gold. It’s an adventure as daring and dangerous as any undertaken by Indiana Jones. Thanks to his grandfather’s dying wish, his entire inheritance hangs on his finding one particular gold nugget. Before it’s over, he’ll either land on a Mayan sacrificial altar or in the arms of his sexy co-pilot Joy. One way or another, things are heating up fast.
Golden Hell
When he travels to Mongolia seeking gold, Captain Humbert Reynolds is captured and tortured by bandits. At their mercy and condemned to work deep within the bowels of a Mongolian mine, Reynolds must lead a daring against-all-odds escape or face certain death.
Hell’s Legionnaire
Sentenced to a French penal colony for killing an officer (in self-defense), American Dusty Colton flees the French Foreign Legion he so willingly joined and rushes headlong into a Berber tribal lair. To his horror, he discovers a captive American woman who’s in the process of being whipped and tortured by the bandit leader. Despite the low odds of him winning out against the entire Berber tribe alone, Dusty can’t leave the woman behind. Even if he figures out an escape from the camp, he still has to manage a way to get them both out of the country alive with both the Foreign Legion and the Berbers at their heels. ALSO INCLUDES THE ADVENTURE STORIES "THE BARBARIANS" AND "THE SQUAD THAT NEVER CAME BACK"
Hostage to Death
Lieutenant Bill Reilly has been banished to the French Foreign Legion’s Intelligence, or "suicide section," and is sent to incite war between the Spanish and local Berber tribesmen so the French can invade a weakened Morocco. Everything goes as planned until his superiors change their strategy and leave Reilly caught in the middle with no way out….
Man-Killers of the Air
Step back in time with this riveting tale. Colorful daredevil air racer Smoke Burnham is known not only for his ability to cross the finish line ahead of the pack, but also for his unusual flying companion, a pet cheetah named Patty.
On the eve of entering an international air race to win much-needed prize money, Smoke and Patty face the usual and the impossible. The race involves a dangerous, grueling flight down Central America, over the Andes and across the Brazilian jungle—that’s typical. The real challenge is that a publicity-hungry newspaper mogul is trying to sabotage Smoke’s plane, the "Super-Comet," and make sure that this race is his last. Plus, the beautiful woman he loves resents his supposed infatuation with height and speed. Now Smoke must somehow win her over, against lethal odds piled high in the turbulent sky. "…primo pulp fiction…" —Booklist
Mister Tidwell Gunner
Imagine a young Laurence Olivier cast as a scholarly Oxford professor—an academic snatched out of his bookish world and pressed into service aboard Lord Nelson’s legendary British fleet—in the position of schoolmaster. Such is the life of the land-loving, seafaring Mister Tidwell, Gunner.
Thrust into service at the height of the Napoleonic Wars, Tidwell soon finds himself directly in the line of fire and way out of his depth. Fate has cast him into a terrible and terrifying spot—alone on deck to face the fearsome approach of a French man-o’-war.
The professor is about to get an object lesson in war, self-reliance . . . and survival. Overwhelmed by the smell of gunpowder, the sound of cannons, and the sight of death, he will either experience the sweet taste of victory . . . or the bitter taste of his own blood.
Orders Is Orders
Marine Gunnery Sergeant James Mitchell and Private First Class Spivits are assigned to brave a 200-mile trek to bring anti-cholera serum to a remote American consulate in Shunkien, China. It’s a treacherous mission set against impossible odds–they must reach the trapped Americans that are caught in the crossfire of the invading Japanese forces.
Red Death Over China
Heroes, honor and impossible odds. American pilot John Hampton is an in-between—he stands for nothing definite, cares about nothing, and knows nothing he wants.
Owing allegiance to no nation, Hampton hires himself on as a pilot in the midst of China’s civil war. On one side is Chiang Kai-shek and, on the other, the army of Mao Tse-tung—for whom he now works.
But after his gunner is killed in a dogfight, Hampton’s once devil-may-care attitude starts to change. When he rescues a captain with dispatches vital to the Chinese cause, Hampton is told the tale of the Red Pagoda, a lesson of life-and-death choices. Hampton’s education proves pivotal—with an immense and deciding battle set to unfold, its outcome strangely lies in his hands. ALSO INCLUDES THE ADVENTURE STORIES "THE CRATE KILLER" AND "WINGS OVER ETHIOPIA"
Sabotage in the Sky
Bill Trevillian, an ace pilot who tests new fighter planes for the Allied forces is competing with another company to get a multi-million-dollar aircraft contract. But covert enemy agents have tampered with the new warbird, deliberately marking it for failure regardless of the cost.
Sea Fangs
In an attempt to reclaim his stolen oil fields, Bob Sherman secretly hires on as a deckhand aboard the yacht of Herbert Marmion, the man who ruthlessly stole them. When a hurricane sends the yacht to an uncharted island, the entire crew is captured by pirates—including Marmion’s beautiful daughter.
The Cossack (PDF)
A confrontation between Colonel Komroff and the pre-revolutionary Russian Duchess of Novgrod, whose sexual advances he had spurned, ends in violent deaths.
The Devil With Wings
Fly through this riveting tale. He lies in wait: a man hunted by many, feared by all and controlled by none . . . if, indeed, he is a man at all. Meet The Devil—With Wings. From Shanghai to Vladivostok, the mere sight of this black-garbed white creature has caused heart failure among the soldiers of the Rising Sun.
Now the brooding specter who stalks the borders and skies of 1930s China has launched a personal invasion against the Japanese. Yet standing in his way is a beautiful and vengeful young woman who believes The Devil murdered her brother. Not only must this solitary avenger clear his name, he must get the woman out of the country alive—if only he can stop her from killing him first.
The Devil’s Rescue (PDF)
After drifting in an open boat for twenty-two days, a sailor is rescued by clipper, only to find himself shooting dice with someone who wants to possess his soul
The Dive Bomber
Enjoy this riveting tale. Lucky Martin is a daredevil test pilot who’s perfected the design for a new bomber plane that the Navy is sure to buy. What makes the plane unique is its ability to dive straight down at seven miles a minute and suddenly level off—stressing the wings at nine times the plane’s weight—without breaking apart.
Unfortunately for Lucky, hostile foreign powers are determined to see him fail so they can scoop up the plane’s design for their own use. Following a string of "accidents" which nearly kill him, Lucky Martin becomes "Unlucky" Martin, making his future look very luckless indeed, unless he can stay alive to outwit the enemy."Primo pulp fiction." —Booklist
The Iron Duke
Blacky Lee is a man wanted by nearly every government in Europe, who happens to be the spitting image of a leader in the Balkan kingdom of Aldoria. With nowhere else to hide, the enterprising Lee flees to Aldoria and attempts to make the most of his mistaken identity in a startling tale of intrigue, humor and romance.
The Last Drop
A humorous tale about a New York bartender who receives mysteriously special potions from Borneo which can make people grow or shrink depending on which one they drink. When our hero uses the potion to deal with some unfriendly mobsters, the results are comic and riotously unpredictable—including an unexpected run-in with a dogfish.
The Sky Devil
Vic Kennedy is quick-witted and sharp-tongued with Nicholas Cage’s maverick sense of adventure, Vic’s flown out of trouble by the skin of his teeth . . . and straight into the jaws of disaster. Racing away from a date with an executioner, he lands in a Saharan oasis, where things are looking up. A gorgeous princess mistakes Vic for a genie, and if he gets his wish, the Sky Devil will have his day. Also includes the adventures Buckley Plays a Hunch, and Medals for Mahoney
The Trail of the Red Diamonds
Lieutenant Jonathan Daly sets out on a fateful expedition into the depths of China to unearth a fabulous fortune in red diamonds, leading him down a dark maze of betrayal, espionage and death–with more on the line than he ever expected. Also includes the short story "Hurricane’s Roar."
Tomb of the Ten Thousand Dead
Captain Gordon is hired to fly a team of American anthropologists to an arid mountain region now part of Pakistan bordering the Arabian Sea. All goes well until an ancient map is discovered in an old pottery jar, revealing the site of a vast treasure that Alexander the Great was bringing to Greece from his conquest of India. More than 10,000 of Alexander’s soldiers and camp followers lay buried in the high desert plains along with the loot of India–hidden in a tomb never to be reclaimed. With the map’s discovery, all academic pretense is dropped. Now Gordon finds himself caught in the middle of the expedition where murder replaces scholarship as the best method to uncover the valuable hoard. Also includes the adventure stories "Price of a Hat" and "Starch and Stripes."
Trouble on His Wings
Johnny Brice is a hotheaded, hard-working "picture-chaser" for the newsreels. He loves to fly into the mouth of danger (whether forest fire, shipwreck or flood), get the story first, shoot it and send the film back fast so that it can be turned into newsreels for theatres all across America. He’s the best there ever was as a "top dog" reporter . . . up till the day he inadvertently saves the life of a golden-haired girl he pulls out of the ocean while covering a ship burning at sea. The dame, or "Jinx," as Brice calls her, seems to bring bad luck like a black cat under a ladder. She keeps Brice on his toes and waist-deep in trouble as they trek the globe from Idaho to the Orient, chasing pictures for the World News. Trouble is, no matter how hard he tries or how good the story, Johnny can’t seem to get good shots . . . nor can he shake the girl.
Under the Black Ensign
Long before Captain Jack Sparrow raised hell with the Pirates of the Caribbean, Tom Bristol sailed to hell and back Under the Black Ensign. That’s where the real adventure begins.
Bristol’s had plenty of bad luck in his life. Press-ganged into serving aboard a British vessel, he’s felt the cruel captain’s lash on his back. Then, freed from his servitude by pirates, his good fortune immediately takes a bad turn . . . as the pirates accuse him of murder—and leave him to die on a deserted island. Now all he has left are a few drops of water, a gun, and just enough bullets to put himself out of his misery.
But Bristol’s luck is about to change. Finding himself in the unexpected company of a fiery woman and a crafty crew, he unsheathes his sword, raises a pirate flag of his own, and sets off to make love and war on the open seas.
Wind-Gone-Mad
Jim Dahlgren, representative in China for the Amalgamated Aeronautical Company, has had enough of the fatalistic brand of diplomacy that allows warlords like "The Butcher" to rise up in the provinces with weapons of fire and sword. But when Dahlgren disappears, supposedly to find a mysterious aviator called Feng-Feng to bring the Butcher’s administration to its knees, he ignites a series of events which just may spell disaster.
Yukon Madness
Canadian Mountie Tommy McKenna sets off on the trail of a brutal madman and his pack of bloodthirsty wolves across the frozen wilderness of the Yukon. But in order to get to his prey, he must first contend with the exotic and deceptive young woman, Kaja–a feat which may just prove deadly. Also includes "The Cossak" and "The Small Boss of Nunaloha."
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See also:
Fifteen SF&F Books by L. Ron Hubbard https://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?f=1293&t=4716376
Eleven Mystery/Thriller Books by L. Ron Hubbard https://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?f=1294&t=4717585
