Gabriel Hunt 01 Hunt at the Well of Eternity

Starred Review. James Reasoner (the Civil War Battle series) is the first to take the shared Hunt pen name and launch an adventure series that raises the action bar to nosebleed heights. After a mysterious beauty delivers a bloodstained Confederate flag and a whiskey bottle full of water to the Hunt brothers at a fund-raising reception, millionaire adventurer Gabriel Hunt and beautiful, gun-toting museum director Dr. Cierra Almanzar follow clues and an ambiguous map from Manhattan to Guatemala, only certain they're on the right path when somebody's shooting at them. Hunt, armed only with his fists, bullwhips, a Colt .45 double-action Peacemaker and a vintage Civil War muzzle loader, is often outnumbered but never outwitted. Pulp adventure fans will be thrilled to see the genre so smashingly resurrected. (May) "The woman carrying the blood stained flag seemed desperate for help--but it was the attack that followed that convinced Gabriel there was something here men would kill for. And that was before he know about the dungeon in the Mayan ruins, or the legendary secret hidden in the rain forest of Guatemala ..."--Page 4 of cover A blood-stained Confederate flag and the beautiful woman carrying it put Gabriel Hunt on the trail of a secret hidden deep in the Central American jungle - a secret that might just be the legendary Fountain of Youth..