Books like King of Khyber Rifles by Talbot Mundy

Mark Twain’s classic novel follows the first-person narration of Huckleberry "Huck" Finn as he journeyes down the Mississippi River in 19th‑century America, exploring adventure, friendship and the era’s social issues.

xxix, 608 pages ; 21 cm

In 1917, war‑injured Captain Hastings arrives at his friend John Cavendish’s Essex manor, where the wealthy widow Emily Inglethorp is found dead by strychnine. Hercule Poirot is called to untangle a web of family intrigue and hidden motives.

Mowgli, a human child raised by wolves, roams the Indian jungle, forming bonds with animal friends and facing challenges that test his courage and identity.

In the age of Louis XIV, D’Artagnan joins three musketeers to protect Queen Anne of Austria from Cardinal Richelieu’s intrigues, offering a tale of swordplay, adventure, and French history.

The Confusion, Volume II of Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle, follows a gang of Barbary galley slaves in 1689 as they pursue legendary treasure amid naval battles, alchemical intrigue, and European political machinations, while Eliza Countess de la Zeur navigates perilous court intrigue.

El Dorado, a 1913 historical adventure by Baroness Orczy, continues the heroic exploits of the Scarlet Pimpernel set amid 1794 Paris during the French Revolution.

Craig of the Mohicans, a frontier scout turns away from civilization, forming a bond with a Mohican warrior as they escort two sisters across the perilous wilderness of America's frontier.

An adventurous English hero risks his life during the Reign of Terror to rescue French refugees and expose royalist conspirators, capturing the perilous spirit of the early French Revolution.

Rudyard Kipling’s classic novel follows Kim, an orphan raised in colonial India, as he navigates loyalties to his native land, his Irish‑English heritage, and the British Secret Service.

Set during the French Revolution, the novel follows Sir Percy Blakeney as he leads a daring covert operation to rescue French aristocrats from the guillotine.

A love story set against the backdrop of World War II in Greece.

A fast-paced historical romance set in early America, featuring the legendary Natty Bumppo and a love story set against the backdrop of the French and Indian War.

The Deerslayer: A prequel to James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, focusing on the rapid civilizing of New York and the introduction of the hero, Natty Bumppo, to the frontiersmen of the time.

Erskine Childers’ 1907 novel, The Riddle of the Sands, pioneers the modern spy thriller with its realistic depiction of late‑nineteenth‑century inshore sailing, espionage, and the looming threat of invasion near the Frisian Islands.

During the French Revolution, the daring Scarlet Pimpernel protects a young hero from Robespierre, while his own wife is captured by Chauvelin, forcing him to outwit his enemies and preserve life and liberty.

A thrilling historical spy novel set during the American Revolution, inspired by accusations of venality and featuring a common man wrongly suspected as a spy for the British, who refuses to accept payment for information vital to the Patriot's cause.

A young knight named Richard Shelley rises during the Wars of the Roses, rescues his lady love, seeks revenge for his father’s murder, and, when suspected himself, joins the outlaw band known as the Black Arrow.

John le Carré’s Cold‑War spy thriller follows British agent Alec Leamas as he takes one last perilous assignment to outwit East German intelligence.

Still recruited from the Pathan tribes that live in the no-man's land between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Khyber Rifles continue to guard one of the world's most volatile borders. For more than a century these poachers turned gamekeepers fought for the British Raj against their own kin, but until now nothing has been written about their key role in Britain's struggle to dominate the North-West Frontier. Journalist Stewart tells the story of the British colonel who raised the corps in 1878, and describes them in action against uprisings. In 1947, Pakistan gained its independence and the Khyber Rifles took on new duties, amongst them pursuing drug smugglers and terrorists. Most recently they set up the first permanent military presence in the forbidden tribal territory of Tirah, to seal the border against Al Qaeda militants and eradicate the opium trade.--From publisher description.

During the French Revolution, a young firebrand named Pierre rises against a local duc, seeks vengeance for his father's execution, and allies with the notorious Chauvelin while the Scarlet Pimpernel watches his plans unfold.

An English tourist impersonates a new king in a fictitious European Kingdom of Ruritania, leading to political intrigue and a thrilling adventure set in 1894.