Suspicion falls on the band of young people, and Beau leaves England to join the French Foreign Legion in Algeria, followed by his brothers, Digby (his twin) and John. The inciting incident is the disappearance of a precious jewel known as the "Blue Water". John and Isobel are devoted to each other, and it is in part to spare her any suspicion of being a thief that he takes the extreme step of joining the French Foreign Legion (following in the steps of his elder brothers). While not mentioned in Beau Geste, the American Otis Vanbrugh appears as a friend of the Geste brothers in a sequel novel. The rest of Beau's band are mainly Isobel and Claudia (possibly the illegitimate daughter of Lady Patricia) and Lady Patricia's relative Augustus (the caddish nephew of the absent Sir Hector Brandon). The Geste siblings are orphans and have been brought up by their aunt Lady Patricia at Brandon Abbas.
The three Geste brothers are portrayed as behaving according to the English upper-class values of a time gone by. The main narrator is his younger brother John. It has been adapted for the screen several times. Published in 1924, the novel is set in the period before World War I. Wren, which details the adventures of three English brothers who enlist separately in the French Foreign Legion following the theft of a valuable jewel from the country house of a relative.
Beau Geste is an adventure novel by British writer P.
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