All Frontiers Are Jealous

by L. Ron Hubbard

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592124749
Publisher:	Galaxy Press, LLC
Publication date:	08/23/2010
Series:	Historical Fiction Short Stories Collection
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
Lexile:	920L (what's this?)
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

With 19 New York Times bestsellers and more than 350 million copies of his works in circulation, L. Ron Hubbard is among the most acclaimed and widely read authors of our time. As a leading light of American Pulp Fiction through the 1930s and '40s, he is further among the most influential authors of the modern age. Indeed, from Ray Bradbury to Stephen King, there is scarcely a master of imaginative tales who has not paid tribute to L. Ron Hubbard.

Editorial Reviews

Uncooperative geography, wild animals, and hostile natives stymie the future route of the Sudan Railway in this above-average pulp-era reprint of a novella from Hubbard (1911–1986). Complications ensue when American surveyor Dan Courtney discovers that Barbara, a beautiful white woman, has been kidnapped by the Dinka, the very same ferocious warriors whose strategic fortification is both crucial for and an impediment to the success of the railway. Hubbard shrewdly allows Barbara to be plucky without being so competent that she can save herself. The author also shows a fine grasp of the conventions of this now problematic genre: action-filled tales in which daring white men, uninhibited by concerns about African autonomy, force the trappings of civilization down the throats of reluctant Africans, who are portrayed as primitives by turns savage and cowardly, ultimately mere cat's-paws of their white superiors. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

“. . . unabashedly entertaining books.” —Kevin J. Anderson

"Offers further evidence of Hubbard's pulp-action mastery." —Ellery Queen

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