Talbot Mundy

King-of the Khyber Rifles (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"King of the Khyber Rifles" is a classic adventure novel by Talbot Mundy, set in British colonial India. The story follows the adventures of Captain Athelstan King, a British intelligence officer who is tasked with uncovering a plot to overthrow British rule in the Khyber Pass region of present-day Pakistan. King's investigation leads him into the heart of a complex web of political intrigue, where he must navigate dangerous alliances and confront powerful enemies. Along the way, he falls in love with Yasmini, a beautiful and enigmatic woman who may hold the key to unraveling the conspiracy. "King of the Khyber Rifles" is a thrilling and action-packed tale of adventure, romance, and espionage, filled with vivid descriptions of the exotic locales and cultures of colonial India. Mundy's deep knowledge of the region and his sympathetic portrayal of its people make this novel a classic of adventure literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: True Sign Publishing House
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789355847966
• Artikelnr.: 68108595

Autorenporträt

Talbot Mundy (born William Lancaster Gribbon, 1879 - 1940) was an English-born American writer of adventure fiction. Based for most of his life in the United States, he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. Best known as the author of King of the Khyber Rifles and the Jimgrim series, much of his work was published in pulp magazines. During Mundy's career his work was often compared with that of his more commercially successful contemporaries, H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, unlike their work his adopted an anti-colonialist stance and expressed a positive interest in Asian religion and philosophy. His work has been cited as an influence on a variety of later science-fiction and fantasy writers and he has been the subject of two biographies.