Night Brings Wisdom

Night Brings Wisdom – three stories of murder, revenge, blackmail, actors, impersonation and the medals that courage earns by Georges Surdez, the master of Foreign Legion fiction. Night Brings Wisdom (1931) – With his lieutenant caught in the net of a vicious money-lender, it was up to gruff Legionnaire Porchot to find—or smash—a way out The Junkman Calls (1937) – A Complete Novelet of the Legion’s Fighting Men—and of the Medals That They Die to Win Legionnaire Pro Tem (1939) – In this lively novelette an American actor on vacation in Morocco borrows a Foreign Legion uniform—and finds he’s played with fire. Georges Surdez (1900-1949) made a particular study of the French Foreign Legion. He visited the headquarters of every regiment, and many outposts of the Atlas, Sahel and Sahara. His stories show a breadth of understanding of those fine fighting men second to none. Night Brings Wisdom – Three Stories contains 12 illustrations.