{"product_id":"2940171728557","title":"The Lieutenant Takes the Sky","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eAmerican pilot Mike Malloy has learned his lesson: when you join the  French Foreign Legion, it¿s best not to wipe the floor with two French  officers . . . no matter how richly they deserve it. And it appears he  has all the time in the world to think about it. He¿s been sentenced to  five years in a Moroccan penal battalion-which is French for death  sentence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Malloy, who could easily pass for actor Douglas  Fairbanks, Jr., is about to get a reprieve . . . if he¿s willing to fly  into the heart of the Sahara and into the teeth of a Berber rebellion. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt¿s  an offer Malloy can¿t refuse. All he has to do is fly two passengers  into the desert and return with a book that disappeared 800 years ago.  But as he¿s a man who doesn¿t go by the book, this expedition could turn  out to have unexpected benefits. One of his passengers is a young  American woman whose eyes are as beautiful and blue as the wild blue  yonder. . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHubbard once said that writers too often  ¿forget a great deal of the languorous quality which made the Arabian  Nights so pleasing. Jewels, beautiful women, towering cities filled with  mysterious shadows, sultans equally handy with robes of honor and the  beheading sword . . . these things still exist, undimmed, losing no  luster to the permeating Occidental flavor which reaches even the far  corners of the earth today.¿ Hubbard brings this unique insight to his  stories of North Africa and the Legionnaires, investing them with an  authenticity of time, place and character that kept his readers asking  for more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Galaxy Press, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150943207664,"sku":"2940171728557","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940171728557_p0.jpg?v=1763742644","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940171728557","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}