That was a damn good book and a bit of a departure by L'Amour. He usually wrote westerns, but this book was about a Native American Air Force spy plane pilot shot down over Russia and he has to escape. Great book. I need to read it again.

Another great departure book by him is "The Walking Drum" about a young man in Medieval Europe who's father was taken prisoner and he has to learn how to be a man on his own, learn swordsmanship, all the manly skills of the period and then set on a quest to find his father and save him. It's an epic swashbuckling tale.

"Blue Highways" is another great book about this guy who is a college professor who gets divorced, buys a van and decides to travel all over America only taking the back roads. He meets all these interesting people and is a fantastic writer and philosopher. It's just a great read. A great travel book.

https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Highways-Journey-into-America-ebook/dp/B006BAW16O/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1M8J9MLDEVZUD&keywords=blue+highways+william+least+heat+moon&qid=1570525135&s=digital-text&sprefix=blue+hi%2Cdigital-text%2C178&sr=1-1

I'm actually reading another one of his book right now called "River Horse" He buys a somewhat questionable cabin cruiser and recruits this other guy who is somewhat an experienced boat captain and the two of them set out to travel across the entire United States from New York to the Pacific Ocean almost entirely by boat with the minimal portage.

https://www.amazon.com/River-Horse-America-William-Least-Heat-Moon-ebook/dp/B00GQDOCZO/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1M8J9MLDEVZUD&keywords=blue+highways+william+least+heat+moon&qid=1570525464&s=digital-text&sprefix=blue+hi%2Cdigital-text%2C178&sr=1-3

What I like about this guy, William Least Heat Moon, is that he is a student of history and everywhere he travels he's full of all these deep interesting tidbits of the local history and shares that along with all of these great insights into humanity.

Robert Ludlum's stuff is really good. Great spy writing.

My Sixty Years on the Plains is a good one. There are a bunch of good books about Mountain Men and the American Frontier on Amazon.

If you want a hunting based book I like anything written by Steven Rinella. Meateater and American Buffalo are both fantastic.
And for a hunting based thriller check out The Dummy Line by Bobby Cole.

Pale horse coming Stephen Hunter. The protagonists are based on Charles Askins,Ed McGivern,Elmer Keith,Jack O'Connor Bill Jordan(the shootists not the camo dude) Audie Murphy. Very good. Hunter always gets the gun stuff right and Holly weird absolutely did good by having Levon Helm play Mr.Rate in Shooter.

Life of the Greatest Guide: Hound Stories and others of Dale Lee - Robert McCurdy.

I have mentioned his books before, but you folks who love the outdoors and the way things used to be when this country was young need to read some of Allan W. Eckerts books.

https://www.amazon.com/Frontiersmen-Narrative-Allan-W-Eckert/dp/0945084919

They are historical fiction, so the situations and dialogue are based on real fact, and supported buy a lot of research. So a document may have where a certain person wrote that he went to a native village and say that so-and-so and they discussed a certain topic, and then Eckert took that info and created dialogue. It's all fact based, and it's just great reading if you like frontier and Indians and settlers and such.

The six books in the winning of America series are some count and then some. Eckert was a master, IMHO.

Son of a Bootlegger. The biography of Barry Switzer is a very interesting book if you are into college football

River of Doubt & Destiny of the Republic by Candace Millard

Endurance by Alfred Lansing

Just about anything by David McCullough or Erik Larson

Nathaniel Philbrick does good history writing.

Bill Bryson is a good read as well.

Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne, also look into Rebel Yell (abotu Stonewall Jackson) by Gwynne as well.

Count of Monte Cristo for a classic.

The Mayflower is one of my favorites.

If you like dangerous game hunting books:

Death in the Long Grass by Capstick
The Maneaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett

And, if you are a nut about Japan and the Feudal Era (samurai period) like I am, my #1 favorte book is The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell. It is one awesome read.

Shogun by James Clavel is good too.

Also I really enjoyed the Gonji series about a Samurai warrior in Feudal Europe. Great series of books.

https://www.amazon.com/Gonji-Deathwind-Vedun-Trilogy-Three-ebook/dp/B00E9FX2NY


While I'm thinking about warriors out of place...

There is a fantastic book about a Nazi Waffen SS guerrilla hunter battalion that somehow escapes after WWII into Switzerland and then to France and joins the French Foreign Legion and is pressed into service in French Indochina fighting the Vietminh in the 1950's. These guys were brutal in dealing with the communist Guerrillas. It's a true story. The writer meets this guy in a bar in Thailand and over a few drinks finds out that he was the Colonel of this force and persuades him to tell him the whole story. Great read. It's called "The Devil's Guard" By Robert Elford.

https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Guard-George-R-Elford/dp/0440120144

This one should be right in your wheelhouse based on a post you made in this thread earlier.

A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins

https://www.amazon.com/Walk-Across-America-Peter-Jenkins/dp/006095955X

Hoof Prints to HIS Prints: Where the Woods Meet the Word by Jeff May

Read the “Rape of Nanking” if you want to understand just how bad the Japanese really were.

Screwtape letters.

Operation Paperclip by Annie Jacobsen is a pretty interesting read.