Luck of the Legion's Secret Mission, An Eagle Novel, 1956

Luck of the Legion's Secret Mission. In search of a missing wooden hand - a treasured relic of the French Foreign Legion - Sergeant 'Tough' Luck is on a mission for its recovery. Kidnap, Aztec treasure and more await the trio of companions Luck, Trenet and Bimberg. Just when you think you know where the story is heading, another twist in the story appears.

Original Price : 7s 6d (37½p)

Published by : Hulton Press Ltd, London in 1956

Author : Geoffrey Bond

Dimensions : 13.5cm x 20cm with 160 pages.

Selected highlights:
  • "Cease! Bladder of lard that you are!"
  • "Thunder and lightning - just look over there!" said Sergeant Luck
  • "For that's what I'm called, you know," he added confidentially; "François the Mad One!"
  • "Thunder and lightning" "Sapristi!" "Ishkabibble!"
  • Imagination seemed fact, and fact imagination. If one thought monsters, one could believe monsters.
  • "Well, we're in the soup good and proper now," said the sergeant thoughtfully;
  • "Well, as long as they don't want to eat us, it's something!"
  • "Yatter, prattle, nag and bind!" grumbled Bimberg, perspiring as he sawed away.
  • "But first let us find the treasures, little brothers of the cockroach!"
  • "Well, it's nearly all over now but the shouting," said Luck
  • "Much as I like food I do not yet want to become either a hot steak or a cold chop!"
  • "So you might call it a mission within a mission. A secret mission, in fact!"
CONTENTS
Chapter   Page
PROLOGUE: THE DAY OF CAMERONE 9
1 THE MISSING HAND 19
2 XANTRO THE DESERTER 28
3 SEALED ORDERS 38
4 FRANÇOIS THE MAD ONE 47
5 THE LAST OF THE HAPSBURGS 56
6 THE SPIDER STRIKES 66
7 THE THREE MADONNAS 75
8 DANGER ROAD 83
9 THE JAWS OF DEATH 90
10 THE MOUTH OF HELL 97
11 LOS DEL MONTE 103
12 FORBIDDEN GODS 109
13 INTO THE UNKNOWN 116
14 THE HOUSE OF DARKNESS 122
15 MUTINY IN THE HALL OF TOMBS 128
16 MAXIMO'S DECISION 134
17 AZTEC GOLD 140
18 INDIAN VENGEANCE 147
19 ALGERIA AGAIN 153
EPILOGUE: THE LEGION REMEMBERS 159