Сollected works: adventure and tales. Book 7

Сollected works: adventure and tales. Book 7: 1. Old Ugly Face; 2. Rung Ho! ; 3. The Eye of Zeitoon; 4. The Ivory Trail;  5. The Thunder Dragon Gate.

1. Old Ugly Face 
This fast-paced adventure novel by Talbot Mundy is one of the greatest novels ever written of the rigors and tests of the spiritual path. It is Mundy at his best. Set in Tibet, the story concerns a group of men and women who are vitally involved in an exciting situation in that forbidden land of towering mountain peaks and age-old secrets. The Dalai Lama had died, and the choice of a successor to the most influential position in Tibet is a matter of utmost concern to the agents of various foreign governments and to Tom Grayne, unofficially representing the United States, Andrew Gunning, his free-lance friend, and Elsa Burbage, in Tibet under unusual circumstances.

2. Rung Ho!  
Rung Ho!  - story of a native uprising in India just before the mutiny. Hindus and Mohammedans, missionaries and British soldiers are all involved and there are some rather exciting scenes. It will be enjoyed by many, but not the many who have worshipped at "The tomb of his ancestors." To these it may seem unpardonable imitation of Kipling, as Cunningham is also the hero of this story and kills his tiger when he's being "proved."

3. The Eye of Zeitoon 
If you prefer your melodrama with an Oriental setting, a garniture of knives and fezes, of eastern odors and strange oaths, try The Eye of Zeitoon. Mr. Mundy has written this, his latest story, with all the masterly skill of a true maker of tales and with an insight into the hearts of his characters that makes the reader love them all.

4. The Ivory Trail  
Sometimes, a great adventure is about fabulous wealth. There were one hundred million pounds of ivory just waiting for them! But of course the ivory was secreted in the darkest heart of feral Africa, and if they got it out of the continent they'd have to deal with the avaricious colonial government. But what's a great adventure without a challenge?

5. The Thunder Dragon Gate 
The Thunder Dragon Gate is the name of a monastery in Tibet, thought to be the portal to Shambala, and therefore revered as a symbol for the threshold to higher levels of spiritual consciousness. American secret agent Tom Grayne and his wife Elsa are trying to smuggle the keeper of the gate, Thö-pa-ga, back into Tibet to resume his ordained duty and to learn what they can about the path to Shambala.
Only a few things stand in their way--a power-mad rajah named Dowlah, an array of Chinese and Japanese agents, the Tibetan government, the Indian government, and a huge man-eating spider called a shang-shang. This ferocious spider--the female eats its mate after copulating is the source of many common Tibetan superstitions which are most effective in keeping the ignorant and the fanatical away from the Thunder Dragon Gate.