title: The Saint: The Last Hero
author: Leslie Charteris
description: Simon Templar and his lady Patricia stumble upon a demonstration of a new weapon of mass destruction. The Saint is horrified and determines to stop this weapon. The world is still getting over the Great War and the many lives sacrificed to the then new weapons of tanks and machine guns.
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  Leslie Charteris 1966 - Saint Errant
  
  Contents
  
  I JUDITH
  
  II IRIS
  
  III LIDA
  
  IV JEANNINE
  
  V LUCIA
  
  VI TERESA
  
  VII LUELLA
  
  VIII EMILY
  
  IX DAWN
  
  I. Judith
  
  Simon Templar had to admit that the photograph of himself which adorned the
  front page of the copy of the New York Daily Gazette on his knee left nothing
  to be desired.
  
  Taken only a couple of years ago, at the studio of an ambitious photographer
  who had clearly seen the potentialities of future revenue from an authentic
  likeness of such a disreputable character, it brought out to perfection the
  rakish curve of his jaw, the careless backward curl of black hair, the mocking
  challenge of a gay filibuster's mouth. Even the eyes, by some trick of
  lighting in the original which had been miraculously preserved through the
  processes of reproduction, glinted back at him from under the bantering lines
  of eyebrow with all the vivid dangerous dance of humor that was in his own.
  
  The story illustrated by the picture occupied two