Affair in Araby

The French ambitions in Syria are provoking the hostility of Arab's king Feisal. Disappointed with unfulfilled promises of the Allies in the Great War, King Feisal is decisive to interfere with French interests in the Middle East, and the French are out to kill him. Jimgrim is an American secret agent working for British Intelligence who, with the help of Jeff Ramsden and the fearless lady Mabel, must protect King Faisal and Syria.

Talbot Mundy (1879-1940) was an English-born American writer of adventure fiction. Mundy spent his early adult years in India, East Africa and Middle East, and many of his novels and stories are set in that part of the world. He is best known as the author of King of the Khyber Rifles and the Jimgrim series.