Illustrated by Tim Bradstreet and Jim & Ruth Keegan.
Robert E. Howard is famous for creating such immortal heroes as Conan
the Cimmerian, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn. Less well-known but
equally extraordinary are his non-fantasy adventure stories set in the
Middle East and featuring such two-fisted heroes as Francis Xavier
Gordon — known as “El Borak” — Kirby O’Donnell, and Steve Clarney. This
trio of hard-fighting Americans, civilized men with more than a touch
of the primordial in their veins, marked a new direction for Howard’s
writing, and new territory for his genius to conquer.
The wily
Texan El Borak, a hardened fighter who stalks the sandscapes of
Afghanistan like a vengeful wolf, is rivaled among Howard’s creations
only by Conan himself. In such classic tales as “The Daughter of Erlik
Khan,” “Three-Bladed Doom,” and “Sons of the Hawk,” Howard proves
himself once again a master of action, and with plenty of eerie
atmosphere his plotting becomes tighter and twistier than ever,
resulting in stories worthy of comparison to Jack London and Rudyard
Kipling. Every fan of Robert E. Howard and aficionados of great
adventure writing will want to own this collection of the best of
Howard’s desert tales, lavishly illustrated by award-winning artists
Tim Bradstreet and Jim & Ruth Keegan.
Robert Ervin Howard (1906–1936) was an American author. He who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. His most famous character is Conan the Barbarian. With Conan and his other heroes Howard created the genre now known as "sword and sorcery" in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
