Product Overview
Before he wrote about the wild places, he had traveled them himself. These four tales from the golden age of the adventure pulps carry the unmistakable conviction of a man who made the journey.
In The Enchanted Hill, a chance meeting on a Mexico City sidewalk pulls two Americans up into the high back country, toward a hill the local people will not climb — and whatever it is that guards its secret. Hell Diver opens with a wisecracking fugitive slipping under the Rio Grande a jump ahead of the guns, only to surface into far worse trouble on the Mexican shore. Clay John returns to the Brazilian Amazon, where a riverman’s quiet story about a little clay-building bird darkens into something far stranger in the shadow of the rain forest. And in Air Trail, the intrigues of a Venezuelan revolution collide with the roar of an aircraft engine above the mighty Orinoco.
Desert highlands and border guns, jungle sorcery and the drowned green world of the Amazon — vintage pulp adventure from a writer who earned every mile of it, and who counted a young Robert E. Howard among his admirers.
