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The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril
Paul Malmont
Simon and Schuster
June 2006
On Sale: May 23, 2006
Featuring: L. Ron Hubbard; Lester Bent; Walter Gibson
384 pages
ISBN: 0743287851
EAN: 9780743287852
Hardcover
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Fantasy Historical | Fantasy Urban | Fiction
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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