“The Frontier Garrison” is the 1st English translation of “Az előretolt helyőrség” via the Hungarian novelist Jenő Rejtő (1905-1943), initially released in 1939 below the pen identify of “P. Howard.” The translator, Balint Kacsoh (a college professor) additionally annotated the version. The preface offers biographical information of Jeno Rejto in ancient and literary context. The style is fiction; components of motion, experience, secret, and comedy are jumbled in the tale. it's appropriate for younger readers and adults.
Action and experience are combined with a hefty dose of offbeat humor during this P. Howard vintage, set within the moment 1/2 the Nineteen Thirties. Harrincourt is dishonorably discharged from the French Naval Academy for a prank. He realizes that his carefree habit placed the livelihood of his widowed mom and teen sister in jeopardy. To safe their monetary destiny, he will pay the top class on his existence insurance plans and joins the French international Legion destined to Africa, the place his loss of life “in the process expert responsibility” will be all yet assured. whereas in easy education in Oran, he unwittingly turns into combined up in homicide and espionage and encounters the ghost of a murdered girl who has a penchant for making a song. briefly order, his unit is dispatched to a frontier garrison confirmed to help French colonial enlargement into equatorial Africa. Rival international powers, in spite of the fact that, try and thwart the French plans and Harrincourt unearths himself within the crossfire of overseas intrigue and falls in love with the gorgeous girl whose haunting ghost follows the legionnaires as they march throughout the lethal Sahara. it really is as much as Harrincourt to avoid wasting the day and discover the key of a mysterious watch, whether it may possibly suggest foregoing the loss of life gain his insurance plans could pay to his family.