The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril

In The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril, Paul Malmont draws upon his long fascination with the pulp era and the lives of the greatest pulp authors of them all — Lester Dent, creator of Doc Savage, and Walter Gibson, author of The Shadow — and brings a beloved genre roaring out of the past. Deftly weaving real-life biographies into a work of fiction, Malmont’s adventure begins in 1937 at New York’s legendary White Horse Tavern. Gibson tells a young, pre-scientology L. Ron Hubbard (then a pulp writer himself) the “Tale of the Sweet Flower War,” asking him to identify what’s real and what’s pulp.