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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Malmont's debut thriller reads like pages torn from the pulp magazines to which it pays nostalgic homage. It's 1937, and the nation's two top pulp writers—William Gibson, author of novels featuring caped crime fighter "The Shadow," and Lester Dent, the creator of do-gooder hero Doc Savage—are trying to solve real-life mysteries that each hopes will give him bragging rights as the world's best yarn spinner. Gibson follows rumors that pulp colleague H.P. Lovecraft was murdered to the fog-shrouded Providence, R.I., waterfront. Dent tracks clues to an impossible killing through the bowels of New York's Chinatown. As the two adventures dovetail, they spawn sinuous subplots involving tong wars, secret chemical warfare, pirate mercenaries, kidnappings, revolution in China and weird science run amok. Lovecraft, L. Ron Hubbard, Louis L'Amour and Chester Himes all play prominent supporting roles and offer piquant observations on the penny-a-word writing life that conjure a colorful sense of time and place. Like the pulpsters he reveres, Malmont doesn't let the facts get in the way of his storytelling, and the result is a fun, if wildly improbable, pulp joyride.
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From Booklist
Fortified by a deep love for the pulps and a flair for storytelling, Malmont delivers this summer's answer to The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. (The author even tips his hat to Michael Chabon with a mention of Joe Kavalier.) Malmont sets the pulp era's biggest stars--Shadow scribe Walter Gibson and Doc Savage writer Lester Dent--on intersecting adventures rivaling anything their signature creations ever encountered. With an annoying L. Ron Hubbard in tow, Gibson sets out for H. P. Lovecraft's funeral only to discover that the horror writer may have been murdered while working on an antidote to a military nerve gas prized by a vengeful Chinese warlord. Meanwhile, Dent and his wife stumble on a dangerous thread from the same story while exploring an abandoned theater in Manhattan's Chinatown. But what's real and what's pulp? As Gibson's pal Orson Welles puts it, "It's all about the lie. The big lie. . . . Our audiences want the big stories about the great things." While it's more a gripping yarn than a literary masterpiece, Malmont's story certainly delivers on Welles' dictum. Frank Sennett
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Malmont's debut thriller reads like pages torn from the pulp magazines to which it pays nostalgic homage. It's 1937, and the nation's two top pulp writers—William Gibson, author of novels featuring caped crime fighter "The Shadow," and Lester Dent, the creator of do-gooder hero Doc Savage—are trying to solve real-life mysteries that each hopes will give him bragging rights as the world's best yarn spinner. Gibson follows rumors that pulp colleague H.P. Lovecraft was murdered to the fog-shrouded Providence, R.I., waterfront. Dent tracks clues to an impossible killing through the bowels of New York's Chinatown. As the two adventures dovetail, they spawn sinuous subplots involving tong wars, secret chemical warfare, pirate mercenaries, kidnappings, revolution in China and weird science run amok. Lovecraft, L. Ron Hubbard, Louis L'Amour and Chester Himes all play prominent supporting roles and offer piquant observations on the penny-a-word writing life that conjure a colorful sense of time and place. Like the pulpsters he reveres, Malmont doesn't let the facts get in the way of his storytelling, and the result is a fun, if wildly improbable, pulp joyride.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
Fortified by a deep love for the pulps and a flair for storytelling, Malmont delivers this summer's answer to The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. (The author even tips his hat to Michael Chabon with a mention of Joe Kavalier.) Malmont sets the pulp era's biggest stars--Shadow scribe Walter Gibson and Doc Savage writer Lester Dent--on intersecting adventures rivaling anything their signature creations ever encountered. With an annoying L. Ron Hubbard in tow, Gibson sets out for H. P. Lovecraft's funeral only to discover that the horror writer may have been murdered while working on an antidote to a military nerve gas prized by a vengeful Chinese warlord. Meanwhile, Dent and his wife stumble on a dangerous thread from the same story while exploring an abandoned theater in Manhattan's Chinatown. But what's real and what's pulp? As Gibson's pal Orson Welles puts it, "It's all about the lie. The big lie. . . . Our audiences want the big stories about the great things." While it's more a gripping yarn than a literary masterpiece, Malmont's story certainly delivers on Welles' dictum. Frank Sennett
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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