This carefully crafted ebook: ‘A Daughter of Astrea (Thriller Classic)’ is formatted for your e Reader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
‘Behold!’ cried Sabul Ahmid, with an upward sweep of his bare, brown arm, ‘behold the Sacred Temple of the people of Astrea!’ I stood up in the boat, my portfolio under my arm. High on the mountain’s side, crowning a thick mass of laurel undergrowth, and flanked by a grove of deep, cool, byana trees, was the building to which my servant was pointing. The material whereof it was fashioned I could not at that distance determine. Only in the broad, tropical sunlight it flashed forth, a glorious and spotless white, as flawless and perfect as the purest marble or alabaster. My fingers began to crave for my pencil. I turned to my guide with beaming face…’ (Extract)
E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was an internationally renowned author of mystery and espionage thrillers. His novels and short stories have all the elements of blood-racing adventure and intrigue and are precursors of modern-day spy fictions.
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