This 1959 omnibus edition features three Gregory Sallust adventures: Black August: Gregory Sallust Adventure No. X: England, involved through the ruin of other countries, is faced with financial collapse and revolution, bringing panic, street-fighting and an uncontrolled exodus from the cities to the countryside, where bands of starving people wander, pillaging for food. Out of the terror and the bloodshed steps Gregory Sallust, to take the leadership of a group of men and women seeking only to survive: to lead them through bitter hardship and terrible hazard to a rural settlement which they fortify against invasion, and which, at first, seems reasonably secure...N.B. This is the first Gregory Sallust adventure published but it comes in at 10 for chronological order. Contraband: Gregory Sallust Adventure No. I. There was menace in the night skies over England: an international smuggling racket with far-reaching political implications. Gregory Sallust knew nothing of this when, in the Casino at Deuville, he first saw the beautiful Sabine Sventy. Even the presence beside her of Lord Gavin Fortescue - a man as rich as he was evil - gave him no warning of the violence and danger to which he was committed from that very moment, nor that he would have to save Sabine from a retribution that she ha surely earned. The Island Where Time Stands Still: Gregory Sallust Adventure No. IX. On a pleasure cruise in the South Seas, Sir Pellinore Gwaine-Cust's yacht hits a coral reef and sinks. Only one survivor is washed ashore - Gregory Sallust. When he regains consciousness, he finds himself among a community of Chinese, ruled by the descendants of the ancient Imperial House. Within days, the throne becomes vacant and Gregory joins an expedition to find the true heir - a hazardous search that takes him deep into the forbidden heart of China.
This 1959 omnibus edition features three Gregory Sallust adventures: Black August: Gregory Sallust Adventure No. X: England, involved through the ruin of other countries, is faced with financial collapse and revolution, bringing panic, street-fighting and an uncontrolled exodus from the cities to the countryside, where bands of starving people wander, pillaging for food. Out of the terror and the bloodshed steps Gregory Sallust, to take the leadership of a group of men and women seeking only to survive: to lead them through bitter hardship and terrible hazard to a rural settlement which they fortify against invasion, and which, at first, seems reasonably secure...N.B. This is the first Gregory Sallust adventure published but it comes in at 10 for chronological order. Contraband: Gregory Sallust Adventure No. I. There was menace in the night skies over England: an international smuggling racket with far-reaching political implications. Gregory Sallust knew nothing of this when, in the Casino at Deuville, he first saw the beautiful Sabine Sventy. Even the presence beside her of Lord Gavin Fortescue - a man as rich as he was evil - gave him no warning of the violence and danger to which he was committed from that very moment, nor that he would have to save Sabine from a retribution that she ha surely earned. The Island Where Time Stands Still: Gregory Sallust Adventure No. IX. On a pleasure cruise in the South Seas, Sir Pellinore Gwaine-Cust's yacht hits a coral reef and sinks. Only one survivor is washed ashore - Gregory Sallust. When he regains consciousness, he finds himself among a community of Chinese, ruled by the descendants of the ancient Imperial House. Within days, the throne becomes vacant and Gregory joins an expedition to find the true heir - a hazardous search that takes him deep into the forbidden heart of China.