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    Son Of The White Wolf
    Son Of The White Wolf
    Son Of The White Wolf
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    Son Of The White Wolf

    By Robert E. Howard

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    Son Of The White Wolf was written in the year 1936 by Robert Ervin Howard. This book is one of the most popular novels of Robert Ervin Howard, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.

    This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooklassic
    Release dateJul 7, 2015
    ISBN9789635225279
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    • 4/5
      Just a good rollicking Sword & Sorcery adventure to pull you along at a fast clip after slogging thru a 900 pg novel before and another following. Robert E. Howard really could just write a constant fight scene. Conan, Kull and now Gordon. Surprised it took me 50 years to come across this guy.
    • 5/5
      Visceral desert adventure with Francis Xavier Gordon in early 20th century Afghanistan, with a foray into Turkey.

      Gordon is known as El Borak, "The Swift", amongst the desert tribes,due to his almost supernatural reflexes. He's an American gunfighter who's found his place among the tribal factions of the east and the spymasters of the western imperial powers.

      Loved, feared or hated in equal measure by those who've crossed his path, depending upon whether they've earned his trust or enmity, Gordon is indomitably loyal, implacably vengeful.

      Although, like all of Howard's heroes, Gordon is an unbeatable fighter, he's at his best in these stories when he's playing off the opposing sides vying for power at this crossroads of political intrigue.

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    Son Of The White Wolf - Robert E. Howard

    978-963-522-527-9

    Chapter 1

    The Battle Standard

    THE COMMANDER OF the Turkish outpost of El Ashraf was awakened before dawn by the stamp of horses and jingle of accoutrements. He sat up and shouted for his orderly. There was no response, so he rose, hurriedly jerked on his garments, and strode out of the mud but that served as his headquarters. What he saw rendered him momentarily speechless.

    His command was mounted, in full marching formation, drawn up near the railroad that it was their duty to guard. The plain to the left of the track where the tents of the troopers had stood now lay bare. The tents had been loaded on the baggage camels which stood fully packed and ready to move out. The commandant glared wildly, doubting his own senses, until his eyes rested on a flag borne by a trooper. The waving pennant did not display the familiar crescent. The commandant turned pale.

    What does this mean? he shouted, striding forward. His lieutenant, Osman, glanced at him inscrutably. Osman was a tall man, hard and supple as steel, with a dark keen face.

    Mutiny, effendi, he replied calmly. We are sick of this war we fight for the Germans. We are sick of Djemal Pasha and those other fools of the Council of Unity and Progress, and, incidentally, of you. So we are going into the hills to build a tribe of our own.

    Madness! gasped the officer, tugging at his revolver. Even as he drew it, Osman shot him through the head.

    The lieutenant sheathed the smoking pistol and turned to the troopers. The ranks were his to a man, won to his wild ambition under the very nose of the officer who now lay there with his brains oozing.

    Listen! he commanded.

    In the tense silence they all heard the low, deep reverberation in the west.

    British guns! said Osman. "Battering the Turkish Empire to bits! The New Turks have failed. What Asia needs is not a new party, but a new race! There are thousands of fighting men between the Syrian coast and the Persian highlands, ready to be roused by a new word, a new prophet! The East is moving in her sleep. Ours is the duty to awaken her!

    "You have all sworn to follow me into the hills. Let us return to the ways of our pagan ancestors who worshipped the White Wolf on the steppes of High Asia before they bowed to the creed of Mohammed!

    We have reached the end of the Islamic Age. We abjure Allah as a superstition fostered by an epileptic Meccan camel driver. Our people have copied Arab ways too long. But we hundred men are Turks! We have burned the Koran. We bow not toward Mecca, nor swear by their false Prophet. And now follow me as we planned—to establish ourselves in a strong position in the hills and to seize Arab women for our wives.

    Our sons will be half Arab, someone protested.

    A man is the son of his father, retorted Osman. "We Turks have always looted the harims of the world for our women, but our sons are always Turks.

    "Come! We have arms, horses, supplies. If we linger we shall be crushed

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