Beau Ideal (novel)
Beau Ideal is a 1927 novel by P. C. Wren. It was the second sequel to Beau Geste.[1]
It was adapted into the 1931 film Beau Ideal.
Plot
Otis Van Brugh, brother of Hank and Mark Van Brugh, who were in Beau Sabreur. He visits Africa and gets caught up in a fight.
He is then asked by Isobel Geste to find her husband John, who has disappeared in Africa trying to find his old friends Hank and Buddy. Otis, who was a childhood playmate of John and who is in love with Isobel, enlists in the foreign legion. He gets himself sent to a penal battalion and finds John.
Arabs raid the battalion and capture Otis and John. The Arab girl the Death Angel falls in love with Otis.[2]
References
- ↑ "LI[?]S.". The Australasian (Melbourne: National Library of Australia). 23 July 1927. p. 62 Edition: METROPOLITAN EDITION. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
- ↑ Review of book accessed 21 December 2014
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