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 | ||
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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 |