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A collection of classic adventure... From the jungles of Borneo to the hidden canyons of the American West, from small-town fight clubs to a Parisian cafe at the end of World War II, here are tales of betrayal and revenge, courage and cowardice, glory and greed, as only Louis L'Amour can tell them. Here is L'Amour at his very best. A charismatic boxer itches to fight all comers -- but his only shot at the championship is in beating the man who ruined his father.... A beautiful movie star finds a dead man in her apartment and begs her ex-lover, a tough private eye, to clear her name.... A reluctant hero guides a diamond-hunting couple up a river ruled by headhunters and pirates in pursuit of a legendary stone and the mysterious warlord who guards it.... A young renegade sails the South China Sea with a trio of dangerous men in search of treasure, but when it's time to divide the prize, can he trust any of them? Combining electrifying action scenes, vivid historical detail, and characters who seem to leap off the page, these spectacular stories honor the legend of Louis L'Amour.

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Product details

Mass Market Paperback: 278 pages

Publisher: Bantam (May 1, 2001)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0553583190

ISBN-13: 978-0553583199

Product Dimensions:

4.2 x 0.7 x 6.8 inches

Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.2 out of 5 stars

26 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#572,892 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Last September I found myself in a desperate situation, i.e. in a holding pattern with nothing to read. Then, I found a cast-off copy of Sackett (The Sacketts, No 6) by Louis L'Amour, which, though being the pulpiest of formulaic western fiction, at least served the immediate purpose of mental diversion. Why, it was even engaging enough to finish. The question then arose: Should I obtain and read more of, if not all of, his other westerns? Uh ... no, that's just not an option because I suspect they're all cut from the same piece of rawhide. And there are just too many. And there's just too little daily reading time in my life to recklessly fritter it away. However, I did note that he's written other short stories not of the western genre (Say it ain't so, Joe!) and I thought, before I cut the author loose, that I would give them a go. Simply out of curiosity, mind you. Thus, OFF THE MANGROVE COAST.This is a compendium of nine short stories ranging in length from nine to sixty-eight pages. One unfolds in the Old West. The other eight take place more or less contemporarily in Borneo (2) and the United States (6). The heroes are two boxers, a private eye, an expatriate American in Paris, two treasure-hunting adventurers, a cowboy drifter, an insurance salesman, and a checkers player. (Perhaps a series could be built around the checkers player, you think?)All the stories read as if tamed-down versions of those written for the male-oriented "men's adventure" genre of pulp magazines in the 50s and 60s. I say "tamed-down" because only once is a scantily-clad female part of the plot - and that but briefly. Otherwise, all the male heroes are reacting to danger and opposition with the expected all-American virtues: competence, perseverance, bravery, gallantry, loyalty, and a sense of justice deserved. It's Good vs. Evil in black and white. While this is perfectly fine - indeed, thriller fiction traditionally follows this general formula - there are none of the messy, gray areas that one sees in the real world, which are an essential part of the plots from my personal favorite author, Gerald Seymour, and which are the incubators of Pyrrhic victories contested by protagonists that aren't overtly heroic and antagonists that aren't totally iniquitous.Louis L'Amour was apparently writing for a different audience in a simpler time, i.e. readers living during the Cold War when it was the Godless Red Menace against God-Fearing America and its allies. Only in the beginning of the last short, "Time of Terror", did I get a hint of something more edgy - something akin to the weird reality found in a Dean Koontz thriller, but the story ended abruptly without evolving further in that style.Ok, ok. Perhaps I'm over-dramatizing and over-simplifying. The point is, L'Amour's characters and plots are to me more unadorned and less ambiguous than those I've come to appreciate in the twenty-first century; for whatever reasons the author's tales seem very mid-20th century. However, that said, I'm awarding OFF THE MANGROVE COAST, like I did SACKETT, four stars because the stories are representative of their time and, while not riveting or likely to cause the reader to do a mental double-take, are nonetheless enjoyable to a better than average degree.

Although many of his books and stories tell of the frontier, these stories showcase his boxing background and his time on freighters throughout the world. His stories are always of real places in those times of adventure. I enjoyed it tremendously.

Kind of shallow. Usually like his but not this one.

Everything was great

I actually bought this for my father as a gift. He enjoys Louis L'Amour and this was one of the last books he had not collected. Glad I was able to find it for him.

Book condition listed was exactly what I received. Very satisfied.

I needed it for my collection

This was a birthday gift for a good friend. He enjoys reading a good western and who doesn't like Louis L'Amour?! We were happy to add to his collection, he had it read in one day!

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