Young Tim Beckdolt had been working Desperation Peak in Arizona for eight long, treacherous months before striking a rich seam of gold. Now, after three months of hard gruelling labor, he's stockpiled more than $175,000 of gold ore, and his dreams of wealth are about to be realized . . . that is until the loutish Swedish giant Sven and the foppish Virginian killer Bonnet arrive to jump his claim. Forced by gunpoint to mine the remainder of the gold for the villainous pair, Tim manages to escape into the surrounding wilderness, only to be hunted like an animal thorugh vicious terrain with no weapons to defend himself or food to sustain him. Also includes "Johnny, the Town Tamer" and "Stranger in Town."

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. This classic 1936 Hubbard tale takes listeners to pre-Communist China where a man named Kurt Reid has fled murder charges only to find himself thrust into the exotic world of foreign espionage.From School Library Journal Grade 9 Up—"Kurt went to the back of the room and found the round-faced, slit-eyed proprietor." So goes the story of Kurt Reid, who has been accused of murder, and his adventures on "the Yellow Continent." Originally published in 1936.

.Review If I Were You by L. Ron Hubbard. This is a book that contains two shorts: If I Were You and The Last Drop, both stories published in pulp magazines during that era. The first story, If I Were You, is about a dwarf who works at a circus. An old man leaves books of black magic to the dwarf, who quickly discovers that there is a way for his soul and the soul that occupies the other body to switch. He decides to switch with the ringmaster, so he can be the true lead of the circus. Unfortunately his dream does not go according to plan.