About the AuthorWith 19 New York Times bestsellers and more than 325 million copies of his works in circulation, L. Ron Hubbard is among the most acclaimed and widely read authors of our time. As a leading light of American Pulp Fiction through the 1930s and '40s, he is further among the most influential authors of the modern age. Indeed, from Ray Bradbury to Stephen King, there is scarcely a master of imaginative tales who has not paid tribute to L. Ron Hubbard. can you blog about books Fifty-Fifty O'Brien (Stories from the Golden Age)
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Dee Dee OakesSuperb!!1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Hardboiled Action!By T.P.M.With Fifty-Fifty OBrien Galaxy Press reprints three masculine adventure stories by L. Ron Hubbard, and each one is a whirlwind of action. Fifty-Fifty OBrien is about a soldier named Winchester Remington Smith, an expert marksman, who gets the job as a runner which for Smith is akin to being a messenger boy. Feeling that his talents are being wasted, Smith plugs along and does his duty, but when an opportunity arises for some action he dives in and ends up saving the life of First Sergeant OBrien, known to all as Fifty-Fifty OBrien. Surprisingly, OBrien isnt all that grateful. The ensuing tale recounts Smiths tribulations and culminates in a better understanding of OBrien. Simple but effective, Fifty-Fifty OBrien is a tight action thriller and highlights Hubbards command of an adventure story. The second story, The Adventure of X, is one of Hubbards Foreign Legion stories and yet another tale packed with action. The final story, Red Sand, closes the volume with another short tale of the Legionnaires. Id like to see all of Hubbards French Foreign Legion tales collected in one volume, but meanwhile the stories here should spark your appetite for more. As I expected, the three stories collected in Fifty-Fifty OBrien are as thrilling today as when they were first published.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Fifty-Fifty O'Brien by L Ron HubbardBy Steven Brandt @ Audiobook-HeavenWith a name like Winchester Remington Smith I guess you better be able to handle a gun and Win is certainly capable in that area. After spending some working in a carnival shooting gallery, however, Win decides that his talents are going to waste. Craving some real action, Win joins the Marines and goes off to war. But things dont go quite the way he would have liked. In the jungles of Central America, Win is assigned to be a runner, running messages back and forth. When Winchester runs afoul of Sergeant Fifty-Fifty OBrien, he finds himself in trouble and the only way to redeem himself will be to run a message deep into enemy territory where no runner has ever made it back alive.Hubbard often drew on his own real life experience when writing his stories and he actually was involved in World War II although he was in the Navy not the Marines. Hubbard wrote many, many stories involving wars and battles but, as in the case of Fifty-Fifty OBrien, those wars are of his own devising rather than the wars of actual history. Still it is clear that he is writing from experience when describing the inner workings of the military.This 2-disk set also includes the military adventures The Adventure of X, in which a French Foreign Legionnaires intelligence mission leads him into an enemy ambush, and he has to warn his fellow Legionnaires before they walk into a massacre; and Red Sand, the story of a disgraced Chicago cop who joins the Legionnaires and finds his investigative skills invaluable in the desert.These are just three of the literally hundreds of short stories L Ron Hubbard wrote during the pulp era of the 1930s and 40s. Galaxy Audio is collecting many of those stories and bringing them to life in stunning audio quality, featuring beautifully rendered music and sound effects and a very talented cast of voice actors. On this set youll hear the voices of R F Daley, Taron Lexton, Corey Burton, Jim Meskimen, Shane Johnson, Phil Proctor, and Jason Harris. These are some of the more talented voices in the industry, some of them playing multiple roles although youd never know it was the same actor. If you havent tried one of these then I highly recommend it. I dont think youll be disappointed.