AT HELL'S GATE [Unknown Binding]

Ethan Black (Author)

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• Unknown Binding
• Publisher: Unknown (2004)
• ASIN: B0018IC1SM
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars High Caliber Page-Turner, August 6, 2005

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N. Bilmes "bookaholic" (Vernon, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: At Hell's Gate : A Novel (Black, Ethan) (Hardcover)

Wow! Ethan Black's newest Voort thriller moves along at a breakneck pace, putting our hero through one of the most harrowing experiences in literature, an experience more discomfiting than the dental torture scenes in Marathon Man, and equally as hard to read as the torture scenes in Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs.

Conrad Voort is broken down by the experience and must decide to succumb to the terror, or fight back. The final 150 pages of this book are taut with suspense and action, and the interfamilial tension between Voorts, Voort and his partner, and Voort and Camilla add an emotional element that makes the suspense more real.

This was an excellent book, and I highly recommend it.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars DOWN A NOTCH, September 16, 2004

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Michael Butts (Berkeley Springs, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: At Hell's Gate : A Novel (Black, Ethan) (Hardcover)

Ethan Black's previous Conrad Voort novels have been expertly written and near perfect. In AT HELL'S GATE, Black loses some of the impetus he established in his earlier works. Conrad is back, engaged to Camilla Ryan, and finds himself in a murder investigation that has far reaching implications.
He and Camilla discover a corpse while kayaking, and later find that the victim is a cab driver. This leads to the cabbie's interest in treasure hunting, looking for a sunken treasure believed to be in the river. Once Voort latches on to the probable bad guy, he is victimized by a sadistic henchman---his masculinity takes a big bruise, and his damaged psyche forces him into the role of a vigilante, without including his beloved in what's going on.
Black writes good dialogue, and he sets some tense scenarios, but Voort loses some of his charm in this one. In his other novels, Voort has been very moralistic, and a deep believer in his faith and his family. His actions in this one don't seem to coincide with what we've learned about him up to this point.
I hope Black does better in his next Voort offering and lets Camilla and Voort go ahead and tie the knot, or separate them permanently.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 4 1/2 stars, September 30, 2004

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Konrad Kern (OFallon, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: At Hell's Gate : A Novel (Black, Ethan) (Hardcover)

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An average effort by Ethan Black this time around. Though it has action as well as an emotional edge, this isn't the Conrad Voort of old (as one reviewer mentioned). It is a good story and it will keep you intrigued, so I would still recommend it for Ethan Black fans.