The Walking Drum (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures): A Novel

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As part of the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials!

Louis L’Amour has been best known for his ability to capture the spirit and drama of the authentic American West. Now he guides his readers to an even more distant frontier—the enthralling lands of the twelfth century.
 
Warrior, lover, and scholar, Kerbouchard is a daring seeker of knowledge and fortune bound on a journey of enormous challenge, danger, and revenge. Across Europe, over the Russian steppes, and through the Byzantine wonders of Constantinople, Kerbouchard is thrust into the treacheries, passions, violence, and dazzling wonders of a magnificent time.
 
From castle to slave galley, from sword-racked battlefields to a princess’s secret chamber, and ultimately, to the impregnable fortress of the Valley of Assassins, The Walking Drum is a powerful adventure in an ancient world that you will find every bit as riveting as Louis L’Amour’s stories of the American West.

Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures is a project created to release some of the author’s more unconventional manuscripts from the family archives.

In Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures: Volumes 1 and 2, Beau L’Amour takes the reader on a guided tour through many of the finished and unfinished short stories, novels, and treatments that his father was never able to publish during his lifetime. L’Amour’s never-before-seen first novel, No Traveller Returns, faithfully completed for this program, is a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas.

Additionally, many beloved classics will be rereleased with an exclusive Lost Treasures postscript featuring previously unpublished material, including outlines, plot notes, and alternate drafts. These postscripts tell the story behind the stories that millions of readers have come to know and cherish.
As part of the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials! Louis L’Amour has been best known for his ability to capture the spirit and drama of the authentic American West. Now he guides his readers to an even more distant frontier—the enthralling land...

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17 reviews
Alice DeHart
May 3, 2026
Great historical novel including actual historical events in the late 12th century. the main character is a swashbuckling youth with a never intending appetite for knowledge. Every chance to learn more is taken as he travels in search of his father being held as a prisoner in the middle East. He meets many people with varied backgrounds that he befriends or makes enemies of. Some enemies he fights, others he barely escapes with his life.
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Larry Lynch
December 21, 2019
This book is one of my favourite Louis L'Amour books. One day, I was bemoaning that he had died before he had written the intended sequel, when an old man name John Walsh said to me "why don't you write it?" I am now 600 pages into that sequel and I intend to speak to Louis L'amour's children and get permission to use his name and characters. When it's finished, I hope you all enjoy it as much as I've enjoyed Louis's writing over the years. I think I have captured his style but the best judge will be his fans.
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Susan Dietrich
February 14, 2026
A good story with many twists and turns. Awesome
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Our foremost storyteller of the American West, Louis L’Amour has thrilled a nation by chronicling the adventures of the brave men and woman who settled the frontier. There are more than three hundred million copies of his books in print around the world.
Our foremost storyteller of the American West, Louis L’Amour has thrilled a nation by chronicling the adventures of the brave men and woman who settled the frontier. There are more than three hundred million copies of his books in print around the world.

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