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Golden Hell
This GoReader comes preloaded with 2 audiobook titles: Golden Hell & The Trail of Red Diamonds. Golden Hell: When he travels to Mongolia seeking gold, Captain Humbert Reynolds is captured and tortured by bandits. At their mercy and condemned to work deep within the bowels of a Mongolian mine, Reynolds must lead a daring against-all-odds escape or face certain death. The Trail of Red Diamonds: Lieutenant Jonathan Daly sets out ona fateful expedition into the depths ofChina to unearth a fabulous fortune in reddiamonds, leading him down a dark mazeof betrayal, espionage and deathwithmore on the line than he ever expected.
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120 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2010
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L. Ron Hubbard
1,929 books650 followersL. Ron Hubbard is universally acclaimed as the single most influential author and humanitarian of this modern age. His definitive works on the mind and spirit—comprising over 350 million copies in circulation and more than 40 international bestsellers—have resulted in a legacy benefiting millions and a movement spanning all cultures.
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September 25, 2021
Tremendous fun. Would have torn through it if work wasn’t so soul draining right now. A prime exaMole of what makes pulp fiction so darned likable.
Hoping that its republishing isn’t a play to get rights money for Scientology.
Hoping that its republishing isn’t a play to get rights money for Scientology.
August 17, 2016
“Pulp Adventure At Its Best”
GOLDEN HELL originally published in the September 1936 issue of THRILLING ADVENTURE: This book actually contains two novelettes, the title story and PEARL PIRATE. In GOLDEN HELL, mining engineer Humbert Reynolds hears of gold in the Gobi. With his guide, Yang T’ang and a guard of soldiers, he heads into the Gobi with gold fever, and literally encounters Hell. Captured by a Mongol tribe they are taken to a Monk hideaway in the mountains where the monks are forging gold deep within the belly of a mountain, and molten metal flows like a burning pool in hell. There, he and his men are chained like slaves to dig the gold in the stifling heat of hell.
As wild as GOLDEN HELL is, PEARL PIRATE (May 1935 THRILLING ADVENTURES) was a fight from beginning to end. There are three forces against each other. The big American, Smoke Engel, wants his boat, the Witch, out of hock with the evil Chinaman, Chan Tso-lan. Meanwhile, Joe Herrero, the Pearl Pirate, steals black pearls from Chan. The Chinaman offers Smoke ten thousand dollars and his boat, if he will bring back the pearls. From there it’s nothing but a fierce battle between Smoke, Herrero, and their men, until the final accounting with the Chinaman, who has plans on cheating everyone in the deal. The sharks and barracuda have a feast in this bloody novelette, but it was all action. Highly recommended.
GOLDEN HELL originally published in the September 1936 issue of THRILLING ADVENTURE: This book actually contains two novelettes, the title story and PEARL PIRATE. In GOLDEN HELL, mining engineer Humbert Reynolds hears of gold in the Gobi. With his guide, Yang T’ang and a guard of soldiers, he heads into the Gobi with gold fever, and literally encounters Hell. Captured by a Mongol tribe they are taken to a Monk hideaway in the mountains where the monks are forging gold deep within the belly of a mountain, and molten metal flows like a burning pool in hell. There, he and his men are chained like slaves to dig the gold in the stifling heat of hell.
As wild as GOLDEN HELL is, PEARL PIRATE (May 1935 THRILLING ADVENTURES) was a fight from beginning to end. There are three forces against each other. The big American, Smoke Engel, wants his boat, the Witch, out of hock with the evil Chinaman, Chan Tso-lan. Meanwhile, Joe Herrero, the Pearl Pirate, steals black pearls from Chan. The Chinaman offers Smoke ten thousand dollars and his boat, if he will bring back the pearls. From there it’s nothing but a fierce battle between Smoke, Herrero, and their men, until the final accounting with the Chinaman, who has plans on cheating everyone in the deal. The sharks and barracuda have a feast in this bloody novelette, but it was all action. Highly recommended.
February 12, 2016
This volume collects two of Hubbard's pulp novelettes, the title story from the September, 1936 issue of Thrilling Adventures magazine, and Pearl Pirate from the May, 1934 issue of the same periodical. Golden Hell is one of Hubbard's infrequent first-person narratives, and was published there as by Captain Humbert Reynolds, the protagonist of the story. I didn't especially care for the style and preferred the pirate story. Both are typical slam-bang adventures representative of their era with minimal characterization and suffer from some intrusive racial slurs that were stock-in-trade of the time but jar in comparison to modern sensitivities. In any event, Hubbard was an excellent story-teller and these are both action-packed stories.
February 23, 2016
A pulp novel involving treasure-hunting in Mongolia. Well-written, but not one of Hubbard's more engaging stories.
April 17, 2017
I read some of his earlier pulp stories and this one I honestly found a little lacking in the details
I realize that yes they were meant for Mass Entertainment and reading but a little more description or build up of the charterers or a better description of the bar that's all
I realize that yes they were meant for Mass Entertainment and reading but a little more description or build up of the charterers or a better description of the bar that's all
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