Only Thing to Fear, The

by Robert Morgan

As a massive evil force nears Earth, a ghostly Chinese warrior lures private investigator Teddy London to Shanghai, where he becomes the unwilling key to an ancient prophecy about the end of the world as we know it.

Genres: Paranormal

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First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Robert Morgan is an American poet, short story writer, and novelist.

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Reviews

[Christopher Sutch · Rating 3 out of 5]

This fifth volume in CJ Henderson's Teddy London hard-boiled-detecive/Cthulhu Mythos mashup series is one of the slow books (similar to the third volume, where a situation was set up over the course of about 185 pages before suddenly being resolved in the remaining 30 pages).

Part of this is undoubtedly due to Henderson's hectic writing schedule (I presume to meet contractual obligations for Bantam, the original publishers of the first six volumes--all of which were published in the course of a little over two years). Part of the slowness, though, is also due to Henderson's attention to the spiritual/mystical development of London as a human with distinctly unusual powers because of what he has witnessed and encountered across his lifetime.

It's forgivable, then, to have an occasional moment for reflection and regrouping (and the end of this novel is quite good), but I also wish that Henderson had been allowed more artistic freedom to develop this series more slowly and carefully: these are supposed to be _mysteries_ and plots are generally supposed to involve action. There is very little of either of these things in this volume.

[Edith Campo · Rating 3 out of 5]

El primer capítulo engancha, porque parece que te llevará a una historia distinta de la real. Henderson hace demasiadas referencias a otros libros de la colección, tanto que hasta la mitad de este no pasa mucho y luego se resuelve todo en los dos últimos capítulos. Me gustaría que profundizara más en la historia y en la de los personajes. Así como está se me ha quedado muy flojo.

[Lankas]

En español fue publicado con el nombre "Los guerreros de la muerte", bajo el nombre real del escritor: C. J. Henderson