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Beau ideal: The hero, John Geste, joins the French Foreign Legion to find a childhood friend, Lester Veil, whom he discovers imprisoned in a desert grain silo with other disgraced Legionaires. Following a flashback to their boyhood in England, they make their escape. After many adventures, Geste finally helps Vail to avoid keeping his extorted promise to marry the Emir's favorite dancer, who is known as "The Angel of Death." They return to England where Vail's platonic love and ideal woman, Isobel Brandon (betrothed to John Geste), is waiting.