The Hellfire Rebellion

TimeWars #10

by Simon Hawke

The Time Commandos journey to 1765 to battle a seemingly unassailable headless horseman who leads the Tory Hellfire Club and is plotting to assassinate Sam Adams, Ben Franklin, and George Washington

Genres: Science Fiction, Time Travel, Adventure, Fantasy, Fiction, Alternate History

192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Also published as J.D. Masters.

He was born Nicholas Valentin Yermakov, but began writing as Simon Hawke in 1984 and later changed his legal name to Hawke. He has also written near future adventure novels under the penname "J. D. Masters" and mystery novels.

Reviews

[Jim Razinha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Departure from the literature sidestories, except for one slight insertion. Tightening of the arc as it nears its finish... It helps with the Reader's Block to have these books, and I'll move on to the next before I return to Amber, all while reading a leadership book and an advance copy of another fantasy fave.

[David]

An excellent read!

[Star Merrill · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked most of it, but a certain character's motivation at the ending was never explained. Whaaaaat?

[Adam Martin · Rating 1 out of 5]

For a short book it drags like crazy. Kit is full of every trope you can think of and character names are Austin Powers laughably bad ie Dr. Darkness.

[Jonathan Palfrey · Rating 3 out of 5]

The other books in this series involve travelling back in time into fictional history, but this one travels back into real history: to the beginnings of the American Revolution.

This is the tenth in the series. It reminds me a bit of the second in the series, The Timekeeper Conspiracy, although it’s somewhat less complicated. The story is OK, it’s readable, and Hawke seems to have done his research on the background details; but it’s not very memorable, and the character interactions are rather perfunctory. Maybe by now he’s getting a bit tired.

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well the series is now entering the final volumes in the series the characters are all named and are in the picture, the challenge is set the question is now who is making the next move and where. So we enter the story of the Hellfire club and an alternative telling of the story of the birth of American independence - I guess if you want to destabilise and destroy your enemy here is as good as any to attack and disrupt. The story as you would expect follows the forumla set down and proven in the earlier stories however this time you know that the series is drawing to a close and so the question is what will the try next.

[Gerry Felipe]

The American Revolution takes on a different perspective considering all the historical figures that were involved in the founding of the United States. I was a fan of the American revolution since seeing the musicall "177" but, her you'll see what can happen behind the scenes while creating a new national identity for the "13 colonies".

[James Joyce]

As usual, a fun romp through time.

This time, agents of the Temporal Intelligence Agency must prevent a plot to end the American Revolution, before it can begin. Set in Boston, a few years before the war but at the beginning stages of the Sons of Liberty, and involving Sam Adams and others around him.

As usual, I end up checking dates and facts, as I read, and learning about elements of history that I hadn't been aware of. It's almost like watching the old Voyagers time travel TV series and getting the mini-history comments, at the end. Only with a LOT more accuracy. Mr. Hawke did his research.