The Gabriel Hunt Series
Hunt At the Well of Eternity (Gabriel Hunt #1)
Author: James Reasoner
Publisher: Titan Books
ISBN-10: 1-7811-6988-8
ISBN-13: 978-1-7811-6988-9
Hunt Through the Cradle of Fear (Gabriel Hunt #2)
Author: Charles Ardai
Publisher: Titan Books
ISBN-10: 1-7811-6990-X
ISBN-13: 978-1-7811-6990-2
Hunt At World’s End (Gabriel Hunt #3)
Author: Nicholas Kauffmann
Publisher: Titan Books
ISBN-10: 1-7811-6992-6
ISBN-13: 978-1-7811-6992-6
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“From the towers of Manhattan to the jungles of South America, from the sands of the Sahara to the frozen crags of Antarctica, one man finds adventure everywhere he goes: GABRIEL HUNT. Backed by the resources of the $100 million Hunt Foundation and armed with his trusty Colt revolver, Gabriel Hunt has always been ready for anything–but is he prepared for the adventures that lie in wait for him?” (publisher’s blurb)
The Gabriel Hunt adventure novels, in the tradition of the popular adventure fiction starring such famous fictional heroes as Allan Quatermain, Tarzan, Doc Savage, and Indiana Jones, were originally published from 2009 to 2011 by Leisure Books, an imprint of Dorchester Publishing. Each was commissioned from a successful popular author. Hunt At the Well of Eternity, the first, was named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. Hunt Through the Cradle of Fear, the second, is by Edgar and Shamus Award-winning author Charles Ardai. Hunt At World’s End, the third, is by horror-genre Bram Stoker Award-winning author Nicolas Kauffmann.
Unfortunately, while the novels were successful, Dorchester Publishing was going out of business. The fourth and fifth novels were barely distributed, and the sixth, Hunt Through Napoleon’s Web by authorized James Bond novelist Raymond Benson, was never distributed at all. Now Titan Books of London is republishing the entire series of six. In the U.S., they are $7.99 paperbacks, released from April through August 2014.
Gabriel Hunt and his brother Michael are the heads of the multimillion-dollar Hunt Foundation, benefactors of museums throughout the world. Michael manages the Foundation’s finances, while Gabriel finds and collects lost artifacts, Indiana Jones-style. Well of Eternity opens at an opulent reception at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for an exhibit of ancient Egyptian artifacts. As a beautiful woman approaches the Hunts with a wrapped bundle, the waiters suddenly produce guns, snatch the bundle, kidnap the woman, and shoot their way out. (The genuine waiters are found murdered nearby.) The ensuing adventure takes Gabriel and the deadly enemy on a race from a Civil War battlefield through modern Mexico into the Central American jungle and a lost Mayan city, with swamp battles, car chases, and plenty of blazing guns and flashing knives.
Each of these first three novels feature a hunt across the world, a beautiful woman to be rescued (or to die tragically, since Hunt must remain unattached), and a popular fabulous treasure and fantastic element, such as the Fountain of Youth and the Secret of the Pyramids. Buy according to your demand for Indiana Jones-type action-adventures.
