South Of Suez

First published in Thrilling Adventures, March 1942. Reprinted in the collections West from Singapore and The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Vol 4.
"Continuing from Aden up the Red Sea to Port Tewfik the crew of the Semiramis observes a mysterious and ultra modern battleship in action against a British convoy. An unknown cabal is using the war-weakened state of the British Empire and the growing power of groups like the Muslim Brotherhood as an opportunity to launch a plot to control the Middle East … and leading it is someone with a connection to Jim Mayo’s distant past."