Quatermain: The New Adventures Volume 4: The Lightning Bird

Quatermain: The New Adventures #4

by Wayne Carey, Clayton Hinkle (Illustrator)

THE LIGHTNING BIRD When the president of the First National Bank of Durban dies mysteriously consumed by flames, a beautiful Zulu woman named Izula approaches hunter-guide Allan Quatermain with a fantastic tale. She believes the cause of the man’s death, and those of others, is the legendary Impundulu, better known as the Lightning Bird. Quatermain reluctantly agrees to help her and with the aid of his friend, Sean Finnegan, they launch an expedition eastward to the Grootslang Kloof located in the Soutpansberg Mountains. It is here, the mysterious forest of Thathe, surrounding Lake Fundudzi, that Izula hopes to find the malevolent witch doctor she believes is controlling the Impundulu. The trail leads them a hidden city now ruled by a sadistic Portuguese trader. To free the enslaved populace and defeat him, Quatermain and his companions will have to confront an evil as old as time itself. Here is H. Rider Haggard’s most famous pulp hero in a brand new, action-packed novel that will have pulp fans cheering.

163 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 21, 2018

About the author

Wayne Carey grew up reading Edgar Rice Burroughs, Andre Norton, Isaac Asimov, and all the grand masters, which guided him toward a career in science with degrees in biology and education and provided the desire to write from an early age. He has been a pharmaceutical research scientist and a science teacher. He is the author of The Nanon Factor, a young adult contemporary science fiction thriller, and Allan Quartermain and the Beast Men, a sequel to H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines, and he has appeared in a variety of anthologies such as Legends of New Pulp Fiction. He and his wife Brenda live in the wilds of Central Pennsylvania with their three children, who provide a great deal of inspiration for his work.