But events had moved too swiftly in the Balkans and now he was trying to escape from that terrorized country by masquerading as a peasant driving a herd of goats. He had come in alone. Going out -- if he was ever to get out -- he had company: Cora Lambert, a high-voltage American newspaper woman, who was equally in trouble. For Jess and Cora had learned a secret that could destroy Bulic, head of the dreaded Security Police, and to Bulic it was a choice of his life or theirs. Jess had decided their only chance of survival was to head for the frontier at the border town of Skaro -- with the Security Police hot on their heels. Adventure piled on adventure, escape on hair-breadth escape. Mile by mile the two correspondents made their way toward the hoped-for lights of freedom, hiding in gutted farmhouses, riding in a Model T truck full of singing girls and, finally, creeping into the darkened graveyard above the brightly lit frontier river -- just short of safety.

    Originally printed in 1954.Pages 160Binding Perfect-bound PaperbackInterior Ink Black & whiteWeight 0.24 lbs.Dimensions (inches) 6 wide x 9 tall Barbaric India, land of languor, intrigue, strange appetites, exotic women, cruel and scheming men!It was in this India that the woman of Kali spun her silken web.She was Sharita, high priestess of the cult of death, mistress of forbidden rites, who used her strange powers in a plot to seize the throne of this great Eastern empire and destroy the foreign invaders.Then she met the tall, blond Pritchard, captain of the Madras Light Horse, whose great strength and fame as a soldier had traveled the length and breadth of India.In her pagan temple, with every wile of the Orient, Sharita sought to break this Englishman to her will and make him a traitor to his king.Accepting International orders.Transcribed by Kurt Brugel & Douglas Vaughan - 2019Cover illustration by Kurt BrugelPurchase a copy directly from The Gardner Francis Fox Library https://www.gardnerfrancisfoxlibrary....