Sometimes you read something and it’s just so sweet you don’t go through official channels and you just have to go on a special mission and bring forth goodness that I think you have to have. Thus, here I am, two tablets in hand.

What we have here are two signed copies of The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont. This book was one of my Forgotten Friday choices. Here is what Publishers Weekly says:

Malmont’s debut thriller reads like pages torn from the pulp magazines to which it pays nostalgic homage. It’s 1937, and the nation’s two top pulp writers—William Gibson, author of novels featuring caped crime fighter “The Shadow,” and Lester Dent, the creator of do-gooder hero Doc Savage—are trying to solve real-life mysteries that each hopes will give him bragging rights as the world’s best yarn spinner. Gibson follows rumors that pulp colleague H.P. Lovecraft was murdered to the fog-shrouded Providence, R.I., waterfront. Dent tracks clues to an impossible killing through the bowels of New York’s Chinatown. As the two adventures dovetail, they spawn sinuous subplots involving tong wars, secret chemical warfare, pirate mercenaries, kidnappings, revolution in China and weird science run amok. Lovecraft, L. Ron Hubbard, Louis L’Amour and Chester Himes all play prominent supporting roles and offer piquant observations on the penny-a-word writing life that conjure a colorful sense of time and place. Like the pulpsters he reveres, Malmont doesn’t let the facts get in the way of his storytelling, and the result is a fun, if wildly improbable, pulp joyride

Really one of my favorite reads in quite a while and I want to thank Mr. Malmont for allowing me to bring this opportunity to BookSpotCentral readers.

This is open to all BookSpotCentral members just PM at the forum and you are entered. Please include your address information so I can make the turn-around as quick as possible. A winner will be named on the 2nd of October. To keep up with all current contests at BookSpotCentral keeps tabs on our contest page.

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Topics: Paul Malmont, Simon & Schuster, The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril