Hunt at the Well of Eternity [Mass Market Paperback]

Gabriel Hunt (Author), James Reasoner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2009

A blood-stained Confederate flag and the beautiful woman carrying it put Gabriel Hunt on the trail of a secret hidden deep in the Central American jungle—a secret that might just be the legendary Fountain of Youth…

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. James Reasoner (the Civil War Battle series) is the first to take the shared Hunt pen name and launch an adventure series that raises the action bar to nosebleed heights. After a mysterious beauty delivers a bloodstained Confederate flag and a whiskey bottle full of water to the Hunt brothers at a fund-raising reception, millionaire adventurer Gabriel Hunt and beautiful, gun-toting museum director Dr. Cierra Almanzar follow clues and an ambiguous map from Manhattan to Guatemala, only certain they're on the right path when somebody's shooting at them. Hunt, armed only with his fists, bullwhips, a Colt .45 double-action Peacemaker and a vintage Civil War muzzle loader, is often outnumbered but never outwitted. Pulp adventure fans will be thrilled to see the genre so smashingly resurrected. (May)
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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 232 pages
• Publisher: Leisure Books; Original edition (May 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0843962461
• ISBN-13: 978-0843962468
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #430,776 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

A lifelong Texan, Reasoner has been a professional writer for more than thirty years. In that time, he has authored several hundred novels and short stories in numerous genres. Best known for his Westerns, historical novels, and war novels, he is also the author of two mystery novels that have achieved cult classic status, Texas Wind and Dust Devils. Writing under his own name and various pseudonyms, his novels have garnered praise from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and the Los Angeles Times, as well as appearing on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists. He lives in a small town in Texas with his wife, award-winning fellow author Livia J. Washburn.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beach Read for guys !, June 21, 2009

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Chuck Emerson (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
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Indiana Jones watch out: Gabriel Hunt's reputation will ultimately surpass yours.
Why should the girls have all the fun at the beach each summer? Now we have Gabriel Hunt to take us places we'll never see, do things we only dare dream about, and have us come out a winner every time. James Reasoner brings home Gabriel's debut with the craft of the master he is.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hunt at the Well of Eternity, August 6, 2009

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Gloria Feit (Long Beach, NY) - See all my reviews
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When a stunningly beautiful woman with a slight Hispanic accent barely has a chance to introduce herself as she approaches Michael Hunt at a Metropolitan Museum of Art reception in honor of a new exhibit on loan from the Hunt Foundation, neither Michael nor his brother, Gabriel, could know it would precipitate gunfire and the woman's kidnapping. Michael is described as "shorter, younger, and studious-looking rather than ruggedly handsome" and "accustomed to paling into insignificance next to his more dynamic older brother." Gabriel is decidedly the more adventurous of the two: "He would find Mariella Montez, and he would find out what was behind her kidnapping, and the attack at the museum, and he wouldn't stop looking until he did."

Gabriel's search takes him from Florida to Mexico to the jungles of Central America. But even before that quest can begin, the action immediately goes into high gear [no pun intended] with a high-speed chase over the East River on the Queensboro Bridge, and doesn't let up till Gabriel's mission is accomplished.

Hard Case Crime, through Leisure Books/Dorchester Publishing, has their own mission: to revive the beloved genres of pulp crime fiction, which it has already done with over 50 titles and counting, and now pulp adventure fiction. This is the first entry in that endeavor, written in true swash-buckling style by Western author James Reasoner. I must admit to a slight hesitancy as I started this book, not sure an Indiana Jones-style book was for me, but that feeling was quickly dispelled after no more than the first few pages. It all comes off in plausible, exciting fashion. The novel is very fast-faced and well-written, and I'm looking forward to future entries in this series. The next one, "Hunt Through the Cradle of Fear," written by Charles Ardai, the erstwhile editor of Hard Case Crime, has an August 2009 publication date, and it should be an equally terrific yarn.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A solid tale of adventure., July 10, 2009

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Gregg Taylor - See all my reviews
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Gabriel Hunt is a hero torn out of the pages of the Hero Pulps of the 30s and 40s. The world was full of unknown places, dark powers and only a two-fisted man with both brains and brawn could tame it. The story is familiar territory for anyone who ever delighted in the adventure serials, and anyone looking for breathtaking originality is probably... well, deeply confused for starters. This is good fun and a pleasant read that clips along at a great pace. I await further exploits of Gabriel Hunt with anticipation.