LIMITED EDITION HARDCOVER FEATURES A NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN MATTHEW
HENSON SHORT ADVENTURE! MATTHEW HENSON AND THE ICE TEMPLE OF HARLEM
is the first in a new exciting retro rollicking adventure series
from 2021 Munsey Award-nominee Gary Phillips. This re-imagined pulp
novel follows the Doc Savage-style adventures of the first black
man to reach the North Pole —Matthew Henson. The tail end of the
Roaring 20s. Harlem. Hired by controversial spiritual leader Daddy
Paradise to retrieve his adult daughter who has been kidnapped,
adventurer Matthew Henson does just that. Then he must safeguard
the two until the firebrand can deliver a momentous speech at a
mass rally. Henson must employ all his survival skills to fulfill
his task—skills that kept him whole in forbidden jungles, across
Asia, and in sub-zero ice storms when he first reached the North
Pole. Henson’s charge brings him face-to-face with such
illustrious characters as gangster Dutch Schultz, who's looking to
muscle out numbers racket boss Queenie St. Clair, and famed
inventor Nikola Tesla who is using his electrical acumen to surveil
plutocrats. Henson’s pal Bessie Coleman, America’s first black
aviatrix lends a hand as well. With a death ray zeroing in on him,
he races against the clock to save lives, and keep a mysterious and
powerful meteor fragment he brought back from the Arctic years ago
out of the hands of monied evil-doers. Set against the
intellectual, artistic and political firmament that was the Harlem
Renaissance, THE ICE TEMPLE OF HARLEM re-imagines explorer Matthew
Henson in the style of Doc Savage and Indiana Jones. The one the
Inuit adopted as their own and considered the best example of those
from the distant South.
General
Imprint: |
Agora Books
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Matthew Henson |
Release date: |
December 2020 |
Authors: |
Gary Phillips
|
Dimensions: |
215 x 139mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
272 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-951709-35-8 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-951709-35-7 |
Barcode: |
9781951709358 |
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