Off the Mangrove Coast

by Louis L’Amour

First published 2000

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Set in several twentieth-century settings, from wartime Europe and Pacific Asia to the American West, Off the Mangrove Coast is a collection built around the pressures of its historical setting. From the jungles of Borneo to the hidden canyons of the American West, from small-town fight clubs to a Parisian café 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. . . .

Across the collection, L’Amour moves between wartime Europe, the Pacific, crime stories and frontier adventure. The stories are united by characters forced to act under pressure, often far from reliable authority, where nerve, loyalty and practical judgment matter more than reputation.