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ID: 553598
Title: Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem
Author: Gary Phillips
Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Format: Unabridged
Length: 07:31:28
Language: English
Release date: 07-20-21
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Action & Adventure, Black Literature
Summary:
Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem is the first in an exciting new retro, rollicking adventure series. This re-imagined pulp novel follows the Doc Savagestyle adventures of the first American to reach the North PoleMatthew Henson.
The tail end of the Roaring Twenties. Harlem.
Hired by controversial spiritual leader Daddy Paradise to retrieve his adult daughter who has been kidnapped, adventurer Matthew Henson does just that. Then he must safeguard the two until the firebrand can deliver a momentous speech at a mass rally. Henson must employ all his survival skills to fulfill his taskskills that kept him whole in forbidden jungles, across Asia, and in sub-zero ice storms when he first reached the North Pole. Hensons charge brings him face-to-face with such illustrious characters as gangster Dutch Schultz, whos looking to muscle out numbers racket boss Queenie St. Clair; and famed inventor Nikola Tesla, who is using his electrical acumen to surveil plutocrats. Hensons pal Bessie Coleman, Americas first Black aviatrix, lends a hand as well.
With a death ray zeroing in on him, Henson races against the clock to save lives, and to keep a mysterious and powerful meteor fragment he brought back from the Arctic years ago out of the hands of monied evil-doers.
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