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Black Sultan, The (Stories from the Golden Age) (edition 2013)

by L. Ron Hubbard

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Meet Eddie Moran, a slightly disreputable American cooling his heels in French Morocco.  And don’t be surprised if the young Cary Grant comes to mind, because Eddie’s as smooth as they come, one step ahead of the game…and of the police. Who’s after him?  Just about everybody.  What’s he done?  A bit of everything—smuggler, revolutionary, whatever crooked little scheme will pay for his next meal or next drink.  But Eddie’s latest caper is one he may not be able to escape…even if he wants to. Stumbling into a fight between a couple of Berber chieftains, Eddie lands in a prison run by The Black Sultan.  He may be a captive of the Sultan, but he’s captivated by a stunning young woman the Sultan means to add to his harem.  For her, Eddie might just go straight—if he can get them out of this hellhole alive. “Action, strong characters, suspense, snappy dialogue, and titillating romance.” —Publishers Weekly Also includes the adventure story, Escape for Three, in which a bold trio of French Legionnaires come to the rescue of their great leader—only to decide he may not be so great after all. When The Black Sultan was originally published, Hubbard said that writers too often “forget a great deal of the languorous quality which made the Arabian Nights so pleasing. Jewels, beautiful women, towering cities filled with mysterious shadows, sultans equally handy with robes of honor and the beheading sword.… These things still exist, undimmed, losing no luster to the permeating Occidental flavor which reaches even the far corners of the earth today.” Hubbard brings this unique insight to his stories of North Africa and the Legionnaires, investing them with an authenticity of time, place and character that kept his readers asking for more. The desert winds howl and the battles rage as the audio drama of The Black Sultan transports you back to a storied era of blood and war in North Africa.… (more)
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Title:Black Sultan, The (Stories from the Golden Age)
Authors:L. Ron Hubbard
Info:Galaxy Press (2013), Paperback, 142 pages
Collections:Your library
Rating:*****
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Loved being able to listen to this book. It was interesting and worth the time. ( )
  willow_74 | Jan 30, 2017 |
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
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. ( )
  hendyzero | Jun 10, 2015 |
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
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. ( )
  hredwards | Aug 2, 2013 |
This review was written for LibraryThing Member Giveaways.
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. ( )
  mnorris3 | Jun 10, 2013 |
This review was written for LibraryThing Member Giveaways.
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. ( )
  Dokfintong | May 6, 2013 |
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A good example of Hubbard's effective storytelling.
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Meet Eddie Moran, a slightly disreputable American cooling his heels in French Morocco.  And don’t be surprised if the young Cary Grant comes to mind, because Eddie’s as smooth as they come, one step ahead of the game…and of the police. Who’s after him?  Just about everybody.  What’s he done?  A bit of everything—smuggler, revolutionary, whatever crooked little scheme will pay for his next meal or next drink.  But Eddie’s latest caper is one he may not be able to escape…even if he wants to. Stumbling into a fight between a couple of Berber chieftains, Eddie lands in a prison run by The Black Sultan.  He may be a captive of the Sultan, but he’s captivated by a stunning young woman the Sultan means to add to his harem.  For her, Eddie might just go straight—if he can get them out of this hellhole alive. “Action, strong characters, suspense, snappy dialogue, and titillating romance.” —Publishers Weekly Also includes the adventure story, Escape for Three, in which a bold trio of French Legionnaires come to the rescue of their great leader—only to decide he may not be so great after all. When The Black Sultan was originally published, Hubbard said that writers too often “forget a great deal of the languorous quality which made the Arabian Nights so pleasing. Jewels, beautiful women, towering cities filled with mysterious shadows, sultans equally handy with robes of honor and the beheading sword.… These things still exist, undimmed, losing no luster to the permeating Occidental flavor which reaches even the far corners of the earth today.” Hubbard brings this unique insight to his stories of North Africa and the Legionnaires, investing them with an authenticity of time, place and character that kept his readers asking for more. The desert winds howl and the battles rage as the audio drama of The Black Sultan transports you back to a storied era of blood and war in North Africa.

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