HE CAME TO THE GOBI FOR GOLD. HE FOUND HELL BENEATH A MOUNTAIN.
American mining engineer Captain Humbert Reynolds has gold fever. His search for the precious metal has already taken him from the Yucatán to Ecuador and northern Canada. Now a rumor that the people of Mongolia possess unexplained wealth draws him across China and into the Gobi Desert, where he is convinced an undiscovered fortune is waiting.
Instead, Reynolds rides into a deadly contest of bandits, betrayal and greed. Captured and carried deep inside a mountain, he discovers the gold he has risked everything to find—but as a prisoner chained to other men and forced to mine it in suffocating heat. The treasure hunter has finally found more gold than he could ever carry away. First he has to survive long enough to escape.
Told in Reynolds’s hard-edged first-person voice, Golden Hell turns a treasure hunt into a fight for survival as a man blinded by greed discovers just how high the price of gold can be.
Two complete adventures in one volume.
Pearl Pirate — American schooner captain Smoke Engle has been swindled out of his ship in a British outpost on the Coral Sea. He is offered one chance to get it back: hunt down a ruthless pirate and recover a fortune in stolen black pearls. The deal launches Smoke into a South Seas chase of piracy, betrayal, a sword fight and a bloody sea battle in which everyone intends to come away with the treasure.
Filled with Gobi Desert danger, treasure hunting, captivity, South Seas piracy, relentless action and unexpected twists, Golden Hell brings together two fast-paced action adventures about men pursuing fortunes that may cost them everything.
“Swashbuckling adventure . . . thoroughly satisfying.” —Booklist
Drawing on a life of travel, aviation, sailing and exploration, L. Ron Hubbard brought an adventurer’s eye to fast-moving tales of danger, ingenuity and impossible odds.
Part of the L. Ron Hubbard Action & Adventure Collection—17 books featuring 24 classic stories—available in paperback, eBook and full-cast dramatized audiobook. If you enjoy the classic adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs and the action-packed adventures of Clive Cussler, discover another master storyteller of action and adventure.
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