Storm Evil

By John Robb

A terrible storm sweeps across a vast desert area of North Africa.

Five legionnaires and a captain on a desert training course are caught in it. They take refuge in the ruined Temple of Sata. Into the temple, too, come four Arabs who are laden with hate for the Legion captain.

Then a beautiful woman aviator arrives-the estranged wife of the captain. And when darkness falls, and there is no light, and the storm rages outside, the Arabs take a slow and terrible vengeance against the captain. Death strikes suddenly, often, and in a grotesque form…

Who will survive the storm?

John Robb was born as Norman Robson in 1917 in Northumberland, England. Aged nineteen, he became a journalist, working on the Daily Mirror, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and Daily Express. After war service in the army and as a correspondent, Robb joined The Star in Sheffield. Writing as John Robb, he became a prominent novelist. His first two novels in 1951 were Space Beam and No Time For Corpses. He went on to write the successful Legion novels, based as they were on his own experiences. One of his best Legion novels, Punitive Action (1953) was filmed by United Artists as Desert Sand in 1955. He would write dozens more books under various pen names. He died on 18th June 1993.