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Talbot Mundy
Jimgrim - The Spy Thrillers Series
Published by
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- Advanced Digital Solutions & High-Quality eBook Formatting -
2018 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-4862-9
Table of Contents
The Seventeen Thieves of El-kalil
The Marriage of Meldrum Strange
OM — The Secret of Ahbor Valley
Jimgrim and Allah's Peace
CHAPTER ONE. “LOOK FOR A MAN NAMED GRIM.”
CHAPTER TWO. “NO OBJECTION. ONLY A STIPULATION.”
CHAPTER THREE. “DO WHATEVER THE LEADER OF THE ESCORT TELLS YOU.”
CHAPTER FOUR. “I AM WILLING TO USE ALL MEANS—ALL METHODS.”
CHAPTER FIVE. “D’YOU MIND IF I USE YOU?”
CHAPTER SIX. “THAT MAN WILL REPAY STUDY.”
CHAPTER SEVEN. “WHO GIVES ORDERS TO ME?”
CHAPTER NINE. “FEET DOWNWARDS, TOO AFRAID TO YELL!”—
CHAPTER TEN. “MONEY DOESN’T WEIGH MUCH!”
CHAPTER ELEVEN. “AND THE REST OF THE ACTS OF AHAZIAH—”
CHAPTER TWELVE. “YOU KNOW YOU’LL GET SCUPPERED IF YOU’RE FOUND OUT!”
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. “YOU MAY NOW BE UNSAFE AND AN OUTLAW AND ENJOY YOURSELF!”
CHAPTER FOURTEEN. “WINDY BELLIES WITHOUT HEARTS IN THEM.”
CHAPTER FIFTEEN. “I’LL HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!”
CHAPTER SIXTEEN. “THE ENEMY IS NEARLY ALWAYS USEFUL IF YOU LEAVE HIM FREE TO MAKE MISTAKES.”
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. “POOR OLD SCHARNHOFF’S IN THE SOUP.”
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. “BUT WE’RE READY FOR THEM.”
CHAPTER NINETEEN. “DEAD OR ALIVE, SAHIB.”
CHAPTER TWENTY. “ALL MEN ARE EQUAL IN THE DARK.”
To Jimgrim:
whose real name, rank and military distinctions,
I promissed never to make public
CHAPTER ONE.
“LOOK FOR A MAN NAMED GRIM.”
There is a beautiful belief that journalists may do exactly as they please, and whenever they please. Pleasure with violet eyes was in Chicago. My passport describes me as a journalist. My employer said: “Go to Jerusalem.” I went, that was in 1920.
I had been there a couple of times before the World War, when the Turks were in full control. So I knew about the bedbugs and the stench of the citadel moat; the pre-war price of camels; enough Arabic to misunderstand it when spoken fluently, and enough of the Old Testament and the Koran to guess at Arabian motives, which are important, whereas words are usually such stuff as lies are made of.
El Kudz, as Arabs call Jerusalem, is, from a certain distance, as they