In 1929, the editor of Argosy magazine asked footloose pulp writer Theodore Roscoe for a group of tales centered around the fabled French Foreign Legion. The intrepid young author packed his bags and shipped off to Algiers to do his research. Out of that impulsive journey emerged a series of superlative stories about one of the most memorable characters ever to appear in the pulp magazines—old Thibaut Corday, a former Confederate Rebel turned soldier-of-fortune who wound up in the Foreign Legion. In retirement, Corday spins mesmerizing yarns of his wild youth—tales that can’t possibly be true. But they are!
