This book includes six novels that have the following common features:
They are all-time action and adventure stories, historical suspense thrillers, and they include traveling far and wide and exotic environments.
The novels included are: The Lost Legion, Images and Delusion, An African Adventure, Oasis of Light, I Ching and Murder, The Girl and the Knight.
They all take place in different geographical environments and time frames.
The Lost Legion: In the year 53 b.C. a Roman army is defeated in Asia Minor. A legion survives and settles in China. At the present time an Italian historian travels to unveil the mystery of the fate of those 10,000 men near the Gobi Desert. A brilliant exponent of the historical fiction genre. The Lost Legion is a thriller that will keep your breath until the end.
Images and Delusion tells a love story in a violent environment. A French officer who obeys an uncertain chain of command in North Africa is ordered to report on the fate of a group of refugees fleeing ethnic cleansing carried out by the Tuaregs in Mali.
An African Adventure: Exoticism and romance. A breath of fresh air.1892 in colonial Africa. A classic and everlasting adventure style. A French official travels to Tanganyika in East German Africa to perform intelligence tasks. He falls in love with the daughter of an Arab sheik in danger. Ivory hunters, slave traders, conflicts between native wrens and Bedouin traffickers in the context of struggles among the colonial powers.
A gripping thriller that will take your breath from the start.
Oasis of Light: tells the story of a young man sent in 1938 to a Nazi expedition to Tibet in search of the origin of the Aryan race under the sands of the Gobi desert and what he actually finds in these remote places.
I Ching and Murder: An old Chinese scholar living in Buenos Aires instructs a young niece and her boyfriend to interpret the I Ching (the Chinese oracle and book of wisdom). In China a powerful drug dealer weaves a complex plot to oust his competitors from world markets from his new base in South America. The Chinese triads and the Japanese Yakuza get entangled in this complex weft.
For obscure reasons their actions seriously endanger the whole scholar´s family. I Ching guides them to face the threat.Vibrant thriller in its entirety.
The Girl and the Knight: This short tale takes place in 1242 in the steppes of Russia. A Teutonic Knight flees from his Slavs pursuers and finds shelter in a Mongolian nomad camp.
