Hunt at the Well of Eternity

by Gabriel Hunt and James Reasoner

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0843962461
• ISBN13: 9780843962468
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Leisure Books
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.1" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

Begin the Hunt

Book 29: Hunt at the Well of Eternity by Gabriel Hunt (and James Reasoner), isbn 9780843962468, 232 pages, Leisure Books, $6.99 Gabriel Hunt, the "author" and main character of this book, is half James Bond: oh so smooth and irresistible to women, great with a gun, cool under pressure and villianous death threats; and half Indiana Jones: world renowned retriever of antiquities, even if sometimes he does slightly illegal things to get them, always stumbling into trouble just when he thinks he's in the clear, handy with a bullwhip (and it is heavily implied he was taught to use it by Dr. Jones himself). In this first installment of a new series from the publishers of the Hard Case Crime books, Gabriel Hunt (ably assisted by his younger, nerdier brother Michael) scours the world (the Florida Keys, Mexico City and Guatemala), wooing beautiful women (Cierra and Mariella), fighting evil badguys (a classic Blofeld type, his disfigured henchman), meeting more than one character whose allegience is questionable at best, and saving ancient artifacts from being destroyed or just forgotten. The series is intended to return the genre of Adventure Fiction to the attention of readers (it's never really been out of the attention of movie-goers, thanks to folks like the aforementioned Jones). If the name "Well of Eternity" brings the more well-known "fountain of youth" to mind, it's intentional and explained early in the book. There are some moments in this first book that clunk a little, but overall it's a fun breezy read, heavy on the action with enough of a hint of the Hunt Brothers' past (missing parents, running a Foundation, etc). There is of course the obligatory adventure-fiction Encounter With The Unusual (Indy had his Lost Ark and Holy Grail; Hunt has the Well of Eternity so far), which is what makes the books fun. The website implies that there will be a new book every three months or so. I'm definitely on-board for the ride.

WELL OF SILENCE Gives Us a Little Bit of Everything

Gabriel Hunt has arrived just in time for long summer weekends and idle days spent relaxing on the beach or backyard. If you loved Indiana Jones and crave some light summer reading involving nonstop adventure in exotic locales, complete with harrowing escapes, blazing gun battles and beautiful damsels in distress, then HUNT AT THE WELL OF ETERNITY is the book for you. This is the first installment of a new paperback original series created by Charles Ardai, creator of Hard Case Crime books. Hard Case Crime has been a resounding success while breathing new life into the genre. Ardai's idea was to publish a paperback hard-boiled crime novel a month, reprinting long-lost pulp works by the masters of the genre and original works by current-day authors. Now Ardai has turned his attention to another lost part of the once-thriving world of pulp fiction: the adventure story. The fictional adventurer Gabriel Hunt is very much in the tradition of Doc Savage. With over 181 issues from 1933 to 1949, readers would plunk down their dime each month to read about Doc's latest hair-raising adventure in Doc Savage Magazine. By the 1950s, adventure stories were filling the book racks of candy stores during the Golden Age of pulp paperback originals. These books were famous for their action-packed, bright-colored, lurid covers depicting beautiful women wearing little besides looks of terror. Many of those dog-eared books ended up beneath the beds of young American boys who enjoyed the covers probably as much as the stories. Then television arrived like an invading alien army, its eerie electronic glow piercing the darkness in living room after living room, conquering all before it and destroying forever the pulp paperbacks originals. The spirit of the pulp adventure series lived on, most famously in the Indiana Jones movies and in the genre's high-tech first cousin: spy adventure series like James Bond. Now Ardai brings us a pulp paperback adventure series for a new century. There will be six books issued over the next year and a half. Hunt will be telling his story with the help of professional writers such as Ardai, Christa Faust, Raymond Benson and James Reasoner. Reasoner, author of 200 books in the western, mystery and military genres, is "co-author" of WELL OF ETERNITY. The Hunt books are written in current time. Gabriel Hunt and his brother run the $100-million Hunt foundation. Gabriel is a modern-day explorer, globetrotting the world in search of discovery. Reasoner writes of Gabriel, "He had spent much of his life in far-off, out-of-the-way places where modern civilization was a rumor at best. People liked to think that the entire world had been tamed, that modern technology now reached to all four corners of the globe. They didn't know how wrong they were." But despite its modern setting, Hunt is pure pulp in the classic style. WELL OF ETERNITY begins with a black-tie affair that the foundation is throwing in New York City's Metropolitan Museum of A

Beach Read for guys !

Indiana Jones watch out: Gabriel Hunt's reputation will ultimately surpass yours. Why should the girls have all the fun at the beach each summer? Now we have Gabriel Hunt to take us places we'll never see, do things we only dare dream about, and have us come out a winner every time. James Reasoner brings home Gabriel's debut with the craft of the master he is.

Two-Fisted Hero

Gabriel Hunt is a new adventure hero who busts loose in Hunt At the Well of Eternity. When I first found out about the series and got an eyeful of Glen Orbik's beautiful artwork, I knew I had to give these books a try. I grew up on Doc Savage and Tarzan, lost worlds and jungle adventures. Oh yeah, and the idea of scantily dressed babes strolling through all of it. Although I was excited about the series, I kept my expectations firmly in check. I wasn't anticipating the recreation of the wheel or a new adventure template no one had seen before. I just wanted a two-fisted adventurer, a damsel or two to save, and some unknown or vaguely charted landscape to play in. Hunt At the Well of Eternity provides all of these things and kept me turning pages two evenings in a row. Hunt is a serviceable character at this point, though I would like to know more about him, his relationship with his brother, the Hunt Foundation, as well as the mystery surrounding his parents' disappearance eight years ago. Hopefully those things will be developed as the initial six books of the series jumps from the starting gate. I enjoyed the way the tale was laid out, starting with action and continuing to follow Raymond Chandler's old saw about dropping in a man with a gun when the pace needed to pick up. The book does whip through New York, Florida, and into South America at a blistering gallop. Each of the first six books are going to be written by different authors, and it'll be interesting to see how each author handles the stories as well as the characters. James Reasoner, veteran novelist of Westerns, military history, and many other books, steps up to the plate with this one. Reasoner does a fine job of introducing his plot and getting the chase into motion, and he throws a few hanging curveballs from time to time as well. I enjoyed the bits of history that he threw in, those nearly all of it is from the Americas and not from Europe or Asia. Happily, during the course of this novel I discovered that Gabriel Hunt has indeed been to those places and will more than likely go again. However, the history hanging the action together may be thinner than Dan Brown and Steve Berry fans are used to. Hunt chases after a mysterious Confederate flag and the general that carried it into battle - then disappeared after the Civil War ended. The action, though, is good and constant, and will up the ante for Brown fans who want more bang for their buck. Think of the book as a great B movie and I think you'll be happy. I know I was, and I'm looking forward to the next book in the series.

Great Doc Savage/Indiana Jones Homage

This book does an excellent job of paying tribute to the pulp adventure tradition. I thoroughly enjoyed it, couldn't put it down, and can't wait for the next in the series (which I've already preordered). While there are some similarities to the Indiana Jones movies (mostly regarding some of the action scenes), I was glad that they are more similar to the Doc Savage novels. However, while the Doc Savage novels had their charms, overall this book is better written (hopefully the author wasn't paid per word!), and allows the reader to piece together the mystery behind the action, which I really enjoyed. This is a great start to the series, and I'm really looking forward to the rest.