Kirby Quinlan
My next book is called "Mike Hawk and the Cult of Kings".
It's an erotic time-travel adventure story, inspired by the likes of Indiana Jones, Dick Tracy, detective fiction, men's pulp, and film noir... I jokingly refer to it as a gay version of "Outlander", but told in the style of a saturday matinee serial.
Present Day: Michaelangelo Hawk, III works in an elite task force for an international organization dedicated to keeping LGBTQ people safe around the world.
When passengers on a gay-themed cruise ship are taken prisoner by a terrorist organization during an excursion to the pyramids at Giza, Mike’s team is called in to rescue them. During an intense firefight in the necropolis, Mike is forced to jump into a metal sarcophagus to escape a grenade blast.
When he emerges, however, he discovers he's been mysteriously transported back to the year 1948; to his father’s hometown, a city called Bulger Beach near Miami, Florida. Due to an eerie resemblance, he is soon mistaken by everyone to be his grandfather, Mike Hawk, Sr., a private detective who happens to have disappeared while investigating a dangerous case involving a local sex cult obsessed with Egyptology.
Assuming he is Mike, Sr. suffering from a case of amnesia, his grandfather’s young, ambiguously gay Cuban secretary Eduardo and a grizzled, former bootlegger named Shep who runs an all-night diner help him try to “regain his memory”. In the process, Mike learns way more about his long-lost grandfather than he ever wanted to know, and has to avoid the amorous advances of the young woman who will become his grandmother in the process.
Hoping the cult may have information about how he can get back to his own time, he picks up the investigation where his grandfather left off, quickly entangling him in a sordid web of sex, politics and power. With a lounge singer named Ruby hiring him to find her brother and a sexy male assassin from an ancient Egyptian order trying to kill him, Mike has his hands full.
Inspired by the pulp adventure serials of the 1930’s and 40’s, Mike Hawk and the Cult of Kings is the story of a tough-as-nails gay hero fighting to survive in the less-than-ideal world he’s been caught up in.
With the whole city at stake, through daring shootouts, thrilling car chases, breathtaking orgies and other orgasmic adventures, he’ll race to get to the bottom of the mystery before the whole thing comes crashing down on him, all leading to a terrifying revelation even Mike doesn’t expect.
It's been a whole lot of fun to write and I'm sure it's going to be just as fun to read. So, look for it soon. To keep updated on all my new releases, please sign up for my free mailing list at kirbyquinlan.com
It's an erotic time-travel adventure story, inspired by the likes of Indiana Jones, Dick Tracy, detective fiction, men's pulp, and film noir... I jokingly refer to it as a gay version of "Outlander", but told in the style of a saturday matinee serial.
Present Day: Michaelangelo Hawk, III works in an elite task force for an international organization dedicated to keeping LGBTQ people safe around the world.
When passengers on a gay-themed cruise ship are taken prisoner by a terrorist organization during an excursion to the pyramids at Giza, Mike’s team is called in to rescue them. During an intense firefight in the necropolis, Mike is forced to jump into a metal sarcophagus to escape a grenade blast.
When he emerges, however, he discovers he's been mysteriously transported back to the year 1948; to his father’s hometown, a city called Bulger Beach near Miami, Florida. Due to an eerie resemblance, he is soon mistaken by everyone to be his grandfather, Mike Hawk, Sr., a private detective who happens to have disappeared while investigating a dangerous case involving a local sex cult obsessed with Egyptology.
Assuming he is Mike, Sr. suffering from a case of amnesia, his grandfather’s young, ambiguously gay Cuban secretary Eduardo and a grizzled, former bootlegger named Shep who runs an all-night diner help him try to “regain his memory”. In the process, Mike learns way more about his long-lost grandfather than he ever wanted to know, and has to avoid the amorous advances of the young woman who will become his grandmother in the process.
Hoping the cult may have information about how he can get back to his own time, he picks up the investigation where his grandfather left off, quickly entangling him in a sordid web of sex, politics and power. With a lounge singer named Ruby hiring him to find her brother and a sexy male assassin from an ancient Egyptian order trying to kill him, Mike has his hands full.
Inspired by the pulp adventure serials of the 1930’s and 40’s, Mike Hawk and the Cult of Kings is the story of a tough-as-nails gay hero fighting to survive in the less-than-ideal world he’s been caught up in.
With the whole city at stake, through daring shootouts, thrilling car chases, breathtaking orgies and other orgasmic adventures, he’ll race to get to the bottom of the mystery before the whole thing comes crashing down on him, all leading to a terrifying revelation even Mike doesn’t expect.
It's been a whole lot of fun to write and I'm sure it's going to be just as fun to read. So, look for it soon. To keep updated on all my new releases, please sign up for my free mailing list at kirbyquinlan.com
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