Loved being able to listen to this book. It was interesting and worth the time. ( )

I received this free from library thing give away. This is a classic back in the day story with old fashioned adventure read as if you were listening to an old radio series. If a reader wants to listen to a great old fashioned story especially great to keep in the car during a road trip, I would definitely recommend. ( )

More escapist fun.
Easy to listen to for a road trip, an hour or two of pure entertainment!
Just remember, L. Ron Hubbard was just a good writer, not the genius the accompanying reading material would have you believe. ( )

I received this as part of the LibraryThing Early Reviewer program.

Despite my misgivings about L.Ron Hubbard and Scientology, I love his pulp fiction.
This story is fast paced and had enough twists and turns to keep you turning the page. ( )

I received several of these Hubbard audio books from librarything.com.

Eddie Moran is an adventurer who has returned to Morocco after several exciting years in French Indochina. He is promptly arrested by the Légion étrangère for crimes committed in Asia but is reprieved by Sheik el'Zidan, a blond, Oxford-educated, horse thief. Moran is broke and accepts a job with el'Zidan but on his way to el'Zidan's HQ he is intercepted by the Black Sultan, el'Zidan's arch enemy and pretender to his throne. Moran escapes and manages to rescue Sheila Gordon, a captive in the Black Sultan's harem.

Hubbard's descriptions are colorful and exciting and feel accurate within the context of the pulp tradition. It's a good story but the book's production shortfalls lower its rating. The most damaging of these are the poorly managed edits that leave dead spots in the dialogue. The multicast presentation is good, although Christine Huntington, as Sheila Gordon, does not have a pleasant voice and her accent is peculiar. She puts the emphasis on the wrong word in many of her lines.

As expected in this series, the background effects are quite good, but this book is not as well produced as the others. In addition to the dead spots in the dialogue, track one on each disc is poorly recorded and the introductory music is scratchy. The slip cover illustration is not a good one. The hero looks more like a gaucho riding an appaloosa than an American, dressed in a silk Berber jellaba, riding a white Arab stallion. Galaxy Press might have an excuse if this illustration is taken from the cover art for the original publication.

This recording also includes the Short Story "Escape for Three." I wonder at the choice as the American in the story is "Lieutenant Marain" which sounds too much like Eddie Moran of the companion story. The story is brutal and the trick at the end harks from an era with different myths.

We can imagine that Galaxy Press, publishers of these audiobooks, is a Scientologist outfit, but there is nothing that points directly to a link.

You need to save the cast list that comes in the mailer because there seems to be no other list online or in the main packaging of these Galaxy Press audio books. ( )