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Title: The Green God
Subtitle: Stories from the Golden Age
Author: L. Ron Hubbard
Narrator: R. F. Daley, Michael Yurchak, Christina Huntington, Jim Meskimen
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
Language: English
Release date: 08-12-14
Publisher: Galaxy Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
Private detective Sam Spade nearly died, several times over, chasing The Maltese Falcon. But what Spade faced in pursuit of the black bird was childs play compared to what Lieutenant Bill Mahone of Naval Intelligence endures when he sets out to find The Green God. Hes tortured with knives, threatened with a slow, painful death, and buried alive. And then things get really nasty. The entire Chinese city of Tientsin is under siege from within - the streets filled with rioting, arson, mass looting, and murder. And all because the citys sacred idol, The Green God, has gone missing. Mahones convinced he knows who stole the deity of jade, diamonds, and pearls. To retrieve it, though, hell have to go undercover and underground. But hes walking a razors edge - between worship and warfare, between a touch of heaven and a taste of bloody hell.
As a young man, Hubbard visited Manchuria, where his closest friend headed up British intelligence in northern China. Hubbard gained a unique insight into the intelligence operations and spy-craft in the region, as well as the criminal trade in sacred objects. It was on this experience that he based "The Green God", which was his first professional sale, published in February, 1934 - the beginning of a very remarkable and prolific writing career. Also includes the adventure "Five Mex for a Million", in which an American Army captain, falsely accused of murder, finds himself taking on the Chinese government, a powerful Russian general, and a mysterious, unexpected passenger.
Members Reviews:
Rollicking Pulp Adventure
My guess is that you already know a bit about L. Ron Hubbard by name alone, but what you may not have known was that he was a very prolific author back during the pulp era. Writing under a score of pseudonyms, Hubbard penned hundreds of stories across all genres; while he's best known for science fiction today, a lot of his prodigious output was aimed at other markets: adventure, western, mystery-crime, aviation and sky-ace tales, stories telling the mysteries of the Orient or the Great White North. The Green God contains two stories about intrigues in 1930s China: the novella "Green God," which was Hubbard's first professional sale, and the short novel "Five Mex For A Million." (As a disclaimer, I received some Golden Age eARCs from the publisher in exchange for open and honest reviews.)
"The Green God"
Bill Mahone, a Naval Intelligence officer in China, has undertaken a dangerous mission. To stop the looting, rioting, and death that wracks the port of Tientsin, he must go undercover into the Chinese underworld to recover the priceless Green God whose theft from a local temple triggered the riots. Standing in his way: thieves, corrupt Army officers, a mob of rioting fanatics wielding long knives, and numerous other near-death experiences...
A lot of pulp writers would churn out a story in the morning, then another one in the afternoon, and I think you can see how that could affect their quality. Hubbard's prose is some of the best pulp writing I've read; it's fast-paced and dynamic without being too purple, and like a lot of great pulp adventures, the non-stop pacing makes it a gripping read.
