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Talbot Mundy


King of the Khyber Rifles

Jimgrim / Ramsden: Book 1

Talbot Mundy

King, of the Khyber Rifles may well be Mundy's most famous work. Set in India and the regions beyond, it was successful enough so that two movies were adapted from its pages, although neither portrayed Athelstan King as Mundy intended him. And neither evoked the fantasy and mysticism that are so much a part of this book.Somewhere beyond India, on a quest for the remote and half-fabled Khinjan Caves, King meets a cast of characters that includes the Princess Yasmini, Ismail, Darya Khan, and various hakims, rangars, and mullahs. And deep in the unknown caverns lie "the sleepers", about whom a marvelous and fantastic tale is spun.

Caves of Terror

Jimgrim / Ramsden: Book 2

Talbot Mundy

In Caves of Terror, the gray mahatma, a high-level Indian mystic wishing to draw Athelstan King [hero of Mundy's early classic King -- of the Khyber Rifles] into an allegiance to use Indian mystic "super-science" to bring India from under the yoke of British colonialism, has been doomed to death for leaking secrets to the dangerous and cunning, but ever so seductive Yasmini, who wishes to use these same powers to dominate the World.

The Mystery of Khufu's Tomb

Jimgrim / Ramsden: Book 3

Talbot Mundy

The Mystery of Khufu's Tomb features Mundy's hero Jeff Ramsden, as he sets out to aid the beautiful Joan Angela Leich, whose interests in Egypt have brought her unwelcome attention.

The Nine Unknown

Jimgrim / Ramsden: Book 4

Talbot Mundy

Nine unknown men are tasked with preserving and protecting knowledge that would be dangerous for mankind if it were used by the wrong people. There are nine books of secret knowledge that must be guarded and kept from falling into the wrong hands. The unknowns are the embodiment of good and must face both evil and ignorance to keep these books safe. The fate of mankind hangs in the balance.

Om, the Secret of Ahbor Valley

Jimgrim / Ramsden: Book 5

Talbot Mundy

An expedition in 1920s India searches for a lost tribe, a holy Lama, and a piece of jade that possesses supernatural powers.

The Devil's Guard

Jimgrim / Ramsden: Book 6

Talbot Mundy

Jimgrim is on a quest for the hidden country of Shambhala (Shangri-La), encountering good adepts & evil adepts in the course of an occult adventure.

Jimgrim

Jimgrim / Ramsden: Book 7

Talbot Mundy

Jimgrim attempts world conquest using scientific secrets from Atlantis deciphered from golden plates found in buried cities in the Gobi.

Full Moon

Jimgrim / Ramsden: Book 8

Talbot Mundy

The setting is modern India, dark, brooding, and mysterious-a land of legend and magic. Among the characters of the story are: Wu Tu, the Eurasian madam of a Bombay "house of pleasure" and member of an international underworld gang; Zaman Ali, an Afghan adventurer; Taron Ling, a practitioner of Oriental magic; Brigadier-General Frensham, a reputed crank, who vanishes without a trace; Henrietta, his charming daughter; and Blair Warrender, a police officer whose task it is to find Frensham. As Warrender sets out on his quest, the principal scene becomes the ruined keep of Gaglajung in Rajputa, in whose subterranean caverns is locked a mystery of mysteries. Why, how, and whither did the Brigadier-General vanish?

This is the question which keeps the reader in a constant state of suspense. Here is intrigue, murder and counterplotting as the action mounts to a tremendous climax. And here is a passionate love story -- not between adolescents, to whom love might be a mere passing emotion, but between a man and a woman to whom it means something fine, strong, and abiding.

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