Hell’s Gate audiobook

groundbreaking new thoughts and smooth-going plots, sense of humor, what else can i request for? helluva readi can see sherlock, spade and indiana on r j maccready, and yeah, pendergast toomany yrs ago, saw a programme saying there were some facilities like unit 731 in some other places in the world, brazil wud be a very nice choice. japan and brazil are good buddiesthe kraut and jap bioweapon project the book mentions sounds really believable and spookyif you like adventure, soft sci-fi and ww2 history, check this out

Bill Schutt's Hell’s Gate (2016) is a very entertaining blend of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Conan Doyle’s The Lost World. It is perhaps the most compelling thriller-horror book I’ve read in quite a while, and for those interested in feeling chills and a bit of vicarious fear it is a treat. It is February of 1944 on the Eastern Front in Ukraine. The Soviet army has almost surrounded over 100,000 German troops in the Cherkassy Pocket. Suddenly thunder comes out of a clear sky—it is a supersonic boom from a piloted rocket launched in Brazil. Soon two parachutes with canisters swinging below them are observed. When the canisters release a yellow pollen-like material that wafts over the trapped German troops, we know that a new and terrible WMD has entered the war. A month earlier Captain R. J. MacCready, a zoologist before the war, pilots an army Cessna to a base on the island of Trinidad in the Caribbean. He has been sent there because aerial reconnaissance reveals a huge 300-foot Japanese submarine hundreds of miles up the Amazon River in Brazil’s Mato Grosso region. The Mato Grosso is the location of Hell’s Gate, a super-remote area famously known as the site of The Lost City of Z—a mythical ancient South American city once the topic of great controversy among explorers. (See David Graun’s The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Obsession in the Amazon , 2009.) The giant submarine Nostromo (named after the hero of Joseph Conrad’s novel by that name) is aground in a shallow section of the Amazon. MacCready is sent to Hell’s Gate to link up with another agent, a botanist named Bob Thorne. As he fights his way through the dense vegetation he feels something alien and evil watching over him and senses a voice warning him “Go!” We are about to meet the chupacabra, a creature thought to be a South American myth but in fact a reality that has migrated to the Amazon’s darkest interior. Things in Hell’s Gate become even more surreal when MacCready and Thorne see a rocket launch from a site about thirty miles away. Obviously, something involving the Axis powers and new technology is going on in Brazil’s deep interior. We follow the adventures of MacCready, Thorne and Thorne’s native wife Yanni as they learn just what the bad guys are up to, and just what gives off those eerie vibes. Veiled scientific references make the reading a bit fun as well as exciting: Isaac Asimov, the science writer; Schrödinger, the cat-loving quantum physicist; Eugen Sänger, the Austrian aerospace engineer; Hannah Reitsch, Germany’s renowned female test pilot; and Werner Heisenberg, Nobel-Prize winning physicist and the director of Hitler’s failed atomic bomb project. Nice touches, these. But the playback of famous names is only frosting—the underlying cake is a fast-paced story melding myths together into an intriguing tale of Axis evil, weapons of mass destruction, South American Indian culture, and good old monsters. Five stars.RATING SYSTEM: 5 = I would certainly read another work by this author4 = I would probably read another work by this author3 = I might read another work by this author2 = I probably would NOT read another work by this author1 = Never! Never! Never!

A good Word War II thriller

One of my favorite parts of this book are the very many and unique quotes at the beginning of each chaper. They print a wide variety of such quotes, and loved that sometimes the quote itself would begin the story of the next chapter! My second favorite is all the true history that they captured to give their story a very much lifelike horror, with their own spin of fiction. I think the book is well written and easy to read. Some parts of the book are VERY R-rated and nightmare-ish, but since the year IS WWii, kinda fits in. I won this book through a Goodreads book giveaway in exchange for an honest review.

When I first started reading this book I wasn't sure I was going to like it. But I have to say by the second chapter I was totally hooked and couldn't hardly put it down. I love how there are so many viewpoints represented and found myself drawn in deeper and deeper. Very well written!!!

I received this book through the Goodreads Giveaways Program!Once I started reading this book, I simply could not put it down. The story plotlines were captivating, and filled with lots of action, thrill and suspense. The hero reminded me of a different version of Indiana Jones who was a professor of zoology, rather than anthropology. Although fiction, the book seemed very realistic, and includes an after chapter highlighting sources of inspiration from reality and true historical events.

Thanks to the publisher and author for making an advanced reader copy available for review.I would place this book in the science fiction historical eco-thriller genre. It takes place during WWII, has a science fiction angle to it, and has a ecological theme. This is a well written novel, with deep characters the reader will either love or hate. CPT Mac, Thorne and Yanni are very likable characters, and I loved their interaction throughout the story. This is a suspenseful story, and I flew through the pages in about 3 sittings. You can tell the author has a zoology background, and the story contains his expertise as Mac takes a journey through the jungle. Go out and buy this book when it comes out. You will be glad you did. I look forward to the next book in this series.

Hell’s Gate is a great new historical action (I could add about 20 more adjectives) thriller from Bill Schutt and J. R. Finch. Think Indiana Jones meets Michael Crichton. Set in 1944 as World War II is winding down in Europe, Hell’s Gate features Axis soldiers, rocket scientists, and the jungles of Brazil that swallow up Japanese submarines and Army Rangers with equal appetite. And then it gets scary. Captain R.J. “Mac” MacCready is a zoologist called in to discover what the Axis powers are up to deep in jungles of Brazil. Discovering his long-presumed dead friend Bob Thorne and his indigenous wife Yanni, Mac makes plans for Bob and Yanni to get the word out about what the Nazi’s are up to while Mac tries to get closer to the Axis base and disrupt their plans.While Mac tries to halt the Nazi plans, something in the jungle is stalking them all. Something that the natives both fear and respect. Whether this new threat will stop the enemy or turn out to be the key in their devastating plan to destroy the United States is a terrifying question.The authors bring a wealth of knowledge to this novel, from history to botany to zoology. This level of realism heightens the thrills. While reading, I found myself swatting at imaginary insects and listening for sounds in the night, so convincingly did I feel like I was in the jungle. The three main characters, Mac, Bob and Yanni shared an easy camaraderie and were fun to root for. The Nazi and Japanese military and scientists ran the gamut from short-sighted to chillingly evil. There were some bumps typical to a first book in a series, namely rough edges on the characters and a plot that was a little choppy moving forward from time to time. On the whole this is an exciting thriller and adventure story. It’s also going to give you a wonderful case of the creeps as you lose yourself in the jungles of Brazil, with Nazi’s on one side of you and something that goes “click click” in the night and whispers in your ear not to worry on the other side.This is a wonderful new book with characters that set up nicely for more adventures. Sign me up! Fans of James Rollins, Matthew Reilly, Michael Crichton, and Alistair MacLean will all find something to love here. Highly recommended!I was fortunate to receive an advance copy of this book.

This book is a very good thriller. I enjoyed all the action and suspense. The story location in the Amazon Jungle is so well described that you feel that you are there. I can compare this book with watching a thriller movie that you are scared of seeing more but cannot stop watching.

I enjoyed reading Hell's Gate. It kept me reading right from the start. I'm glad to have won the book, thank you Goodreads

Loved this. Like Indiana Jones meets Michael Crichton.

This book has it all.This book has just about anything an adventure or war story could offer. It is all based on science and history. It has vampire bats, evil Nazi's and Japanese biochemist, a rain forest princess that can communicate with animals, hero American soldier/scientists, terror weapons, and don't forget the Amazonian Rain Forest with all of its panoply of creatures large and small. For me the greatest surprise was that at the core of all of this me Tarzan, you Jane possibility is a solid well researched and written story of what could have happened scenario during WWII. I look forward to more from Bill Schutt in the future. My first thought was to give this a pass and I am so glad I did not.

Hell's Gate combines history and biology in a way that will satisfy everyone's interest.

Review to come.

This was not what I was expecting at all. I was expecting a good WWII spy type story. What I got was something else entirely. It was set in WWII but that was a little immaterial. It turned out to be a great story involving a botanist, some Nazis, and a whole bunch of interesting creatures and some nice side characters. All in all it was a very fun book to read.

A lot of fun.