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  • Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem

  • The Matthew Henson Series, Book 1
  • By: Gary Phillips
  • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
  • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)

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Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem

By: Gary Phillips
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
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Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem is the first in an exciting new retro, rollicking adventure series. This reimagined pulp novel follows the Doc Savage-style adventures of the first American to reach the North Pole - Matthew 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 task - skills that kept him whole in forbidden jungles, across Asia, and in sub-zero ice storms when he first reached the North Pole. Henson’s charge brings him face-to-face with such illustrious characters as gangster Dutch Schultz, who’s looking to muscle out numbers racket boss Queenie St. Clair; and famed inventor Nikola Tesla, who is using his electrical acumen to surveil plutocrats. Henson’s pal Bessie Coleman, America’s 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.

©2020 Gary Phillips (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing and Skyboat Media, Inc.
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Great story

The book is a bit of a slow burn, the story itself is fantastic however it too a while to really get into the plot.

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great read.

loved the inclusion of historical figures, and idea of possibilities in history that were left "out " as well as retro hero feel.

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This book was just plain old fun

This book was just plain old fun. I enjoyed the throwback writing style. I also loved the historic name dropping in this fictional tale. When I heard the name Vertner Woodson Tandy my jaw dropped. ‘06

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A refreshing take on noir

Really enjoyed this well-performed, un-whitewashed historical perspective of a very likeable, yet human, gentleman adventurer. Looking forward to the next installment in the series.

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