Illustrated throughout by Eisner Award nominee Tim Bradstreet and by Jim and Ruth Keegan, this complete collection of Robert E. Howard's desert adventures features the wily El Borak, one of Howard's very first creations. Inspired by the exotic fiction that he so fervently read, Howard imagined a Texan named Francis Xavier Gordon--"El Borak"--an adventurer fighting renegades, czars, and skilled warriors in the deserts of the East. The volume also includes some of Howard's collaborations with Kirby O'Donnell. All the stories in this volume have been restored to the earliest, most definitive versions available today, like the other collections in Del Rey's Robert E. Howard library, of which there are now more than 300,000 copies in print. These fully illustrated volumes have been some of the most eagerly received Howard editions in decades. Robert E. Howard is famous for creating such immortal heroes as Conan the Cimmerian, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn. Less well-known but equally extraordinary are his non-fantasy adventure stories set in the Middle East and featuring such two-fisted heroes as Francis Xavier Gordon-known as "El Borak"-Kirby O'Donnell, and Steve Clarney. This trio of hard-fighting Americans, civilized men with more than a touch of the primordial in their veins, marked a new direction for Howard's writing, and new territory for his genius to conquer. The wily Texan El Borak, a hardened fighter who stalks the sandscapes of Afghanistan like a vengeful wolf, is rivaled among Howard's creations only by Conan himself. In such classic tales as "The Daughter of Erlik Khan," "Three-Bladed Doom," and "Sons of the Hawk," Howard proves himself once again a master of action, and with plenty of eerie atmosphere his plotting becomes tighter and twistier than ever, resulting in stories worthy of comparison to Jack London and Rudyard Kipling. Every fan of Robert E. Howard and aficionados of great adventure writing will want to own this collection of the best of Howard's desert tales, lavishly illustrated by award-winning artists Tim Bradstreet and Jim & Ruth Keegan.