HUNT THROUGH NAPOLEON’S WEB is the sixth and, likely, the last Gabriel Hunt novel. Only six were contracted for and with all the changes going on at Dorchester Publishing, the odds seem long we will see anymore in this series. It will be too bad if that’s so.
Gabriel Hunt’s sister Lucy has been kidnapped by an organization called Alliance of The Pharoahs and the ransom is Gabriel Hunt himself. He is given a place to meet them. No other information.
He first heads to Nice where Lucy lived to look for clues to where she might have been taken. There he hooks up with a beautiful young Frenchwoman named Sammi, Lucy’s friend, a magician and escape artist.
The kidnappers’ representative tells Hunt that they want him to find a second rosetta stone. Found in Napoleon’s papers was mention of a second stone and the fact that it was hidden away, protected by several traps designed by Napoleon and descendants of the original guards. The organization has been looking for the stone for thirty years and now want Hunt’s help. After all, it’s his line. They give him one choice.
Find the stone or Lucy dies!
Gabriel’s mission is twofold: rescue Lucy because he knows they won’t let any of them leave alive and keep the stone out of their hands. Something in the papers lend everyone involved to believe there’s a secret to great power there.
The trail leads Gabriel Hunt across the world to Marrakesh then Corsica. Plenty of action here as one has come to expect in a Hunt novel. I liked it.
The book is supposed to be released today. On Dorchester’s web site, they say books would be available on announced dates as ebooks, then trade paperbacks would follow in six months or so. They say it will be available at all regular sites, Amazon being one mentioned. However, at Amazon, they’re still touting it as a mass market paperback and have a little box that says: WANT TO READ THIS ON KINDLE. LET THE PUBLISHER KNOW.
What’s up with that?
Do you think we’ll ever see this paperback printed? I’ve already bought the first four and would like to own the complete series.
Damn e-books, and all their digital kin. Why can’t they just print the paperbacks, instead of cheaping out like this because they justify it by saying everyone wants their books on an e-reader. It’s the doom of printed books, and I vow to go down fighting.
Well I’ve grown to appreciate ebooks when you can’t get them any other way, Richard. Still rather have a book though.
Cullen, when Ardai sent me the PDF file, he sent said six months, if ever. Those were his words. Even then, it will be a trade paperback. He doesn’t own the Hunt line like he did with Hardcase Crime.
Too bad. I have no idea whether they sold well or not but it was such a great idea.
On Amazon it is now saying August 2011 for the paperback.
That would be the trade paperback, Dan. It should be available on Kindle as well, though that doesn’t show yet. Dorchester’s books were supposed to go to Kindle on the planned release date with a book version to come later.