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The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril

A Novel

By Paul Malmont

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| Hardcover | 9780743287852

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The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril is a thrilling debut novel that casts the rivalry between two of pulp fiction's most revered writers into its own saga, which bursts from the pages with blood, cruelty, fear, mystery, vengeance, courageous heroes, evil villains, dames in distress, secret identiContinue

The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril is a thrilling debut novel that casts the rivalry between two of pulp fiction's most revered writers into its own saga, which bursts from the pages with blood, cruelty, fear, mystery, vengeance, courageous heroes, evil villains, dames in distress, secret identities, disguises, global schemes, hideous deaths, beautiful psychics, superweapons, cliff-hanging escapes, and other outrageous pulp lies that are all completely true.

Return to 1937, when America is turning to the pulps for relief from the Depression, and meet Walter Gibson, the mind behind The Shadow, and his rival for the top-selling spot on the nation's newsstands, Lester Dent, creator of Doc Savage. The murder of Gibson's friend H. P. Lovecraft -- victim of a mysterious death that literally makes the skin crawl -- is about to bring these two writers face to face with a peril sprung from the pulps.

The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril is at once a valentine to an old-fashioned genre as well as a modern, meta-literary examination of the classic hero pulp. From the palaces and battlefields of warlord-plagued China to the seedy waterfronts of Providence, Rhode Island; from frozen seas and cursed islands to the dizzying and labyrinthine alleys and tunnels of lower Manhattan, Dent and Gibson, joined by the young pulp writer L. Ron Hubbard and a host of colorful characters, finally step out from behind the shadows of their creations to take part in a heroic journey far greater than any story they have imagined as they race to stop a madman destined to create a new empire born of, and based in, pure, gaseous evil.

The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril is a swashbuckling romantic tale of writers and writing, magic and love, marriage and fatherhood, and ambition and loss that weaves the true lives of its real-life characters into a fictional epic.

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  • While the plot sometimes got confusing, I enjoyed this thriller featuring the creators of The Shadow and Doc Savage. I especially liked the interactions between Gibson, Dent and Hubbard.

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    krin5292 said on Jan 3, 2009 | Add your feedback

  • A nice, entertaining homage to the Pulp Era. And one of those books for which I really think that aNobii should have a 5-stars rating system: the beginning, too slow, and worried to make us understand who the characters are deserves only 2 stars, but the second part, fast, funny, exciting and someho ... (continue)

    A nice, entertaining homage to the Pulp Era. And one of those books for which I really think that aNobii should have a 5-stars rating system: the beginning, too slow, and worried to make us understand who the characters are deserves only 2 stars, but the second part, fast, funny, exciting and somehow moving, really deserves 3 stars.
    1 and 1/2 is my rating. And I can't wait to read a real, vintage Shadow story.

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    Vertumno said on Nov 20, 2007 | Add your feedback

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 384 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 0743287851
  • ISBN-13: 9780743287852
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Pub date: May 23, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1484 mm x 968 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback
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