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Beau Geste

By: Percival Wren
Narrated by: David Case
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A column of French Legionnaires finds one of their fortresses manned by dead men. It looks like one of his own troops killed the sergeant. Who could have done it?

A flashback then unravels the mystery of the three English Geste brothers. The three Geste brothers, orphaned early in life, are raised by an aunt. Their raucous youths are filled with the literature of adventure and ritualized horseplay centered around these myths and legends. So when the family's prized Blue Water sapphire turns up missing, each of the young men confesses to being the thief in order to protect the others and one by one they head off to join the French Foreign Legion. The three brothers meet up in the deserts of Africa where they fall under the command of the malevolent Sergeant Lejaune. Not content to merely be a martinet, Lejaune sets his sights on stealing the jewel, which rumor holds to be in the brothers' possession. Meanwhile, the unruly troops he commands are planning a mutiny and the marauding Tauregs pin this badly outnumbered and bitterly divided unit of Legionnaires at Fort Zinderneuf. The ensuing drama plays itself out as the French forces battle overwhelming odds. Ultimately, only a handful of men survive to discover the truth behind the Blue Water's disappearance.

A classic, rip-roaring tale of adventure!

©1993 Phoenix Recordings (P)2006 Tantor Media, Inc. Classics Africa Literature & Fiction Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths
Exciting Adventure • Well-plotted Mystery • Exceptional Narration • Historical Fiction • Classic Tale

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A great classic story with the best performance I’ve ever heard for an audiobook. Because of all the French in it I listened to it .9x speed, that helped.

Wow! Fun

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This book is very well written and the audiobook is very well read.

The story moves along very nicely, the characters are well formed and you really get to like them all.

The ending was quite a surprise.

Very Good

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While an interesting and even adventurous tale, the catalyst that drives the drama borders on the comical by today's standards of generally ethical and forthright behavior. The story also seems to make too much of the prowess and fortitude of being British save for the unfailing belief by those who possess it that such a cultural distinction makes the bearer any more durable, honest, or better than someone from a different nationality. Indeed this could be attributed to the pride the main character feels in his own and his brothers' mutual heritage more than any insidious elitism engendered by the author of the book. In other words while somewhat detracting from the genuine quality of the story it is to be assumed that the author's nationalism may be more an example of the human tendency to like and therefore take pride in that which they are most familiar.

Nonetheless it was not a bad book.

Adventurous and the height of ridiculousness

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Beau Geste is a cracking fine tale. Performed by David Case, the combination makes for hours of blissful listening.

David Case and High Adventure

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Lightweight? Yes. One-dimensional characters and plenty of stereotypes? Of course; it's a pop fiction product of the 1920's. Why listen to it? BECAUSE IT'S A TON OF FUN! You could do much, much, worse than a whodunnit about a jewel theft that plays out at a remote French Foreign Legion outpost.

Outstanding Ear Candy

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