Military & War Short Stories Collection: The Phantom Patrol : The Story of a Coast Guard Officer, a Drug Runner, and a Sea of Trouble (Paperback)

from PrettyTarantula

This was an exciting short book or novella. It was a good story but not much depth to it because of its length. I like how this book includes a biography of L. Ron Hubbard at the end along with a glossary and a list of his novels. He is a prolific writer and an interesting person. Thanks to Libra...

from kiparsky

I've always been a fan of pulp fiction, and not in any ironic or guilty way. I really like the stuff. The frenetic pacing (a product, no doubt, of the frenetic bouts of writing that produced it), the line-drawing characters, the chaste lust barely kept under wraps by the square-jawed hero and the...

from anothersheart

I received several L. Ron Hubbard's stories on CD from the Early Reviewers and have to admit I had never heard or read any of his works before. My family and I listened to the audio books in the car while traveling and I have to say we were pleasantly surprised at the entertainment value. The sou...

from aethercowboy

The Phantom Patrol is one of those pulp fiction books you may have read when you were a kid, provided you were a kid in pre-WWII America, and then promptly forgot about when the next issue of Five Novels came out. While it was written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, who apparently is a gra...

from LAWonder10

This audio book was quite ell done. The book was written well. For those who wish to reflect back to "the goo dole' days", it is a delightful story of ships, Coast Guard, Gangsters, and some slight romance. The setting is during early part of the 20th century It reminds one of the nostalgia of ra...