To Battle Beyond by C. J. Henderson
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- Pub. Date: January 2008
- 248pp
- Sales Rank: 523,679
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- Pub. Date: January 2008
- Publisher: Marietta Publishing
- Format: Paperback, 248pp
- Sales Rank: 523,679
- ISBN-13: 9781892669162
- ISBN: 1892669161
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Come with us now to the thrilling days of yesteryear! In the opening days of WWII, the free world sat in dread anticipation as the Axis turned its deadly attentions on one country after another. With an ocean to protect her on either side, the United States hoped to be spared participation in the apocalyptic confrontation to come. But such was not to be. Knowing the only chance was a sneak attack, the Japanese high command settled on a dark and terrible plan, one involving damnable sorceries and horrors from beyond to cripple the American colssus. Obscenely cruel, if unstopped it would mean the death of millions. Join us as three of the Pulp Era's greatest heroes--primary Batman inspiration, The Black Cat, The Domino Lady, greatest of girl detectives; and H.P. Lovecraft's immortal creation, Inspector Legrasse--band together to battle nightmare and ninjas in one of the wildest, most exciting adventure novels of all time!
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August 19, 2008: Set in the months prior to the start of World War II, strange weather patterns fall upon America both on the west and eastern coasts. Savage, brutal storms that leave a wake of death and destruction in their paths. When several colorful characters, at divergent locales, begin to investigate these supposedly natural tragedies, they soon uncover an evil malevolent force that is anything but natural. Within days, an occult magician named Ravenwood, summons three people to his New York apartments. They are Ellen Patrick, the crime fighting Domino Lady from California, Anthony Quinn, the blind lawyer from New York who is really the avenger known as the Black Bat and lastly, Inspector John Raymond Legrasse of New Orleans, a veteran in fighting the forces of arcane evil. This is very much the pulp version of ?The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen? and the conceit works extremely well. Taking a bunch of second string pulp heroes, Henderson ties them to the world of H.P.Lovecraft?s Ancient Gods myth by brining in Legrasse, a character he?s used many, many times in other horror orientated adventures. Henderson is brilliant at capturing personalities with only a few words and I found myself seeing these familiar heroes in an entirely new and exciting new light. The interaction between them is fun and as always C.J. doesn?t scrimp on the action. There?s plenty of it, all in the rousing traditional bloody pulps mode. So if, like me, you truly enjoy pulp action and adventure, pick this one up. Oh, and did I mention it has an introduction by some pulp fan named Fortier?
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