I enjoyed David
Hardy’s CODE OF THE LEGION so much I went ahead and read his other French
Foreign Legion yarn, OUTLAWS OF THE LEGION, and I think I liked it even more.
This one finds a group of Legionaires, including a Texas gunfighter (shades of
El Borak!), leaving their post and raiding a sheikh’s stronghold to rescue a
beautiful dancing girl and avenge a friend’s death. As always, Hardy does a
fine job with the setting and the history and packs plenty of gritty action into the tale he’s telling. This is pure pulp in the best way, with echoes not only
of Theodore Roscoe and Georges Surdez but also Robert E. Howard and Talbot
Mundy. I hope Hardy keeps writing these, because they’re some of the best
stories I’ve read recently. Highly recommended.
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