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Second Horseman Out of Eden (Mongo, Bk 7)
Author: George Chesbro

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Publisher: Warner Books
Book Type: Paperback
Rating:
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ISBN-13: 9780445408623 - ISBN-10: 0445408626
Pages: 248


Other Versions of this Book: Paperback

Book Description:
Christmas time usually finds Mongo in a jolly mood; he and his brother Garth customarily celebrate the season by granting the wishes of needy children. But there is no joy in this year's task, the Frederickson brothers must race the clock to bestow the gift of freedom on a little girl lost in a sinister "secret place."

The only clues are traces of exotic soil found in the creases of a letter to Santa and a cryptic reference that suggests the child's tormentor might be a man known all too well to the detectives, a renegade televangelist who is also a deadly white-power zealot.

A desperate search leads the brothers from the New York Botanical Gardens to the opulent Manhattan suite of one of the world's richest and most powerful men, and into an eerie, futuristic world-within-a-world. Here Mongo must face his ultimate challenge, to defeat the murderous giant who has dogged his every footstep, while seeking to avert a global holocaust that may be just a heartbeat away.

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Karen F. (cosmichomicide) wrote on 5/19/2006...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

This is another great and bizarre action-adventure-mystery with a touch of science fiction and horror novels, in a great series by George Chesbro. Robert "Mongo" Fredericksen is a criminologist/private investigator who has a black belt in martial arts and happens to also be a dwarf and former star acrobat in a circus. Strange? Oh, it's only begun to be strange! Mongo and his six-foot-three-inch brother, Garth (retired NYPD detective) are well-to-do, well-connected private eyes, looking to put the horrors of their past cases behind them, and enjoy the holidays. They go to the NYC Post Office to pick up five "Dear Santa" letters each, but end up picking just one, in which a little girl wants a puppy, and the end of being molested by a religious fanatic. Their mission to find the girl and save her, leads to a doomsday cult, a billionaire recluse, former professional athletes who are ex-convicts, stolen Amazon topsoil, and wayward biospheres. Can Garth and Mongo prevent Armageddon and get a puppy for the girl, plus end the molestation? They succeed at only two of those three things before the end of the book.

As with all of George Chesbro's Mongo novels, this is fast-paced, well-written, full of action, and replete with bizarre characters. This story takes place several years after "The Beasts of Valhalla," and is just as good. What a thrill ride! - Amazon customer review


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