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Reviews:
A Little
Touch of Zenda in the Night,
October 19, 2008
This review is from: Maxim
Gunn and the Sun Fortress (Kindle Edition)
In Maxim Gunn The Sun Fortress, the fourth volume in Nichoas
O. Boving's entertaining series about secret agent and
adventurer Maxim Gunn, the author produces not only another
fine adventure in the series, but adds a hint of Philip Jose
Farmer's Wold Newton Universe as we learn some surprizing
facts about Gunn's history. Readers of the series will know
Gunn is a former agent of the Organization headed by the cool
headed and cold blooded splendidly named Vileman. Despite
having left the service Gunn can't sit on his laurels and
enjoy his life with beautiful lady friend Lady Cynthia ffoote
and his man James Sweetstory, he keeps getting drawn back into
the Great Game.
In Sun Fortress Gunn is drawn back into a very personal battle
when Princess Alicia Flavia of the small but key nation of
Ruritania is kidnapped by mercenary terrorist Devlin and his
small army. The kidnapping has a personal tie to Gunn who it
seems is a direct descendent of Rudolph Rassendyl, an
adventurer who was involved with the Princess' great
grandmother and Ruritainian intrigue, the story fictionalized
in Anthony Hope's adventure tale The Prisoner of Zenda.
Almost as soon as Gunn is drawn into the case it becomes
apparent this is no ordinary kidnapping for ransom or
extortion. The Princess has been taken so she can be
sacrificed by an insane Mayan priest who believes that a
coming disaster can only be averted by spilling royal blood.
Meanwhile she is being held in a remote fortress by Devlin and
his mercenary army, inaccesible on one side by jungle and the
followers of the mad priest, and on the other by the sea and
nearly vertical cliffs.
But one or two men could perhaps get close, scale the cliffs,
and rescue the Princess before the deadline --- especially if
one of those men is Maxim Gunn.
Boving continues to weave Gunn's adventures with elements of
the fantastic and old fashioned swashbuckling, while in Gunn
he has created a classic adventure hero who is equally at home
in the company of James Bond or the Saint, Dirk Pitt or
Richard Hannay, Modesty Blaise or Rudolph Rassendyll ... These
books are grand adventures, playful and inventive and written
in a literate and civilised manner that makes them ideal
escapism. In Sun Fortress he has also created a firey and
intelligent heroine in the Princess, who proves equal to Gunn
and his dashing ally Don Sebastian as they dare the sheer
cliffs and ruthless army that guards the inaccesible fortress.
It all builds up to a suspenseful conclusion as Gunn and Don
Sebastian find themselves alone facing an angry army with
their backs to a sheer cliff ...
These books are a wonderful blend of modern thriller and old
fashioned adventure and readers who enjoy Anthony Horowitz's
Alex Rider, Ted Bell's Alexander Hawke, or James Rollins Sigma
Force books should give them a try. Nicholas Boving is a most
civilized and entertaining writer, with a touch of savagry and
a delightful tongue in cheek sense of humor. Get on the Maxim
Gunn bandwagon now. The call to adventure has never rung so
clear. The entire affair runs as cooly as Gunn's Lagonda and
goes down as smoothly as his favorite Glenmorangie whiskey,
with the solid kick of his .357 Colt Python. Superior escapist
fun for all readers.
Enter a
Hero,
September 11, 2008
This review is from: Maxim
Gunn and the Chaos Project (Paperback)
Maxim Gunn and the Chaos Project introduces the world to Gunn,
Maxim Gunn, Nicholas Boving's entertaining and clever twist on
the cool eyed British hero of lore. Of course it's impossible
to escape the comparison with James Bond, and Boving cleverly
manages to play his own clever variations on all the tropes of
Fleming's popular works, but Boving is holding his cards close
to his vest and if Gunn occaisionally offers a glimpse of
Fleming's world of glamor and danger he also plays --- in a
different manner --- some of those same notes that Fleming
himself drew on from the rich past of the British thriller
while keeping his tongue in cheek with a panache that may
remind readers of the late George McDonald Fraser's cheeky
Flashman. Maxim Gunn, is no Flashy, he's true blue, handsome,
dashing, and with immpecacable manners, but he also manages to
touch on that same wealth of earlier heroes from Anthony
Hope's Rudolph Rassendyll and Sapper's Bulldog Drummond to
C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower.
Nor it Boving content to put his man up against anything as
tiresome as the Russians, terrorist fanatics, or the usual run
of meglomaniacs. Gunn, who is contemplating retiring from the
Organization to escape his tiresome boss, the perfectly named
Vilemann, finds himself arrayed against the beautiful and
deadly Wanda Liszt. Seems Gunn killed Wanda's super criminal
father and Wanda and her allies have been seeking revenge ever
since. And what revenge it is. Wanda has gotten her hands on
the legendary necklace of Sheba, and with it's powers she
plans to sieze all of Africa as her own little fiefdom -- but
first she has to gather her forces in a splendid set piece of
a gothic unassailable castle fortress --- replete with its own
version of the jacobs ladder that threatened the real king of
Ruritania in Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda --- where Gunn, with
the help of a former SAS man and a Union Corse godfather, has
to literally bring the house down on Wanda's head.
Tongue firmly in cheek, Boving orchestrates it all with clever
byplay, fast action, and a knowing nod to what splendid fun
all this nonsense can be if the reader will just relax and go
along with it. The author has a real gift for capturing the
feeling of exotic locales and creating exciting, colorful, and
bizarre dilemas for his hero to extricate himself from with
the proper mix of derring do and the well placed mot juste.
It all runs as smooth as Gunn's Lamborghini and with the kick
of his trusty .357 Magnum, at a rapid involving pace and with
just the right balance of action, character development, and
colorful background and locales. I won't be giving away too
much to reveal Wanda Liszt meets a just end, but I suspect she
won't be quiet long, and Boving hints as much in a clever coda
at the books end. It's no small thing to create a hero as
attractive as Gunn (think Stewart Granger in The Prisoner of
Zenda) or a villain as wickedly inviting as Wanda, and Boving
plays the two off each other with all the right notes. If
Maxim Gunn deserves to stand in the company of such heroes as
Bond, Drummond, and the Saint, as well as more modern entries
like Dirk Pitt or Ted Bell's Alexander Hawke; Wanda deserves a
place alongside Carl and Irma Peterson, Fu Manchu and his
daughter, Fleming's Ernst Stavro Blofield, and of course the
immortal Professor Moriarity.
I can't say enough about Boving's literate and highly readable
mix of old fashioned adventure with a pleasingly gothic touch
of what the Scots like to call the uncanny and a whiff of the
kind of world threatening science we've come to associate with
Clive Cussler, James Rollins, and Mathew Reilly's bestselling
novels. Long live Maxim Gunn --- and the good news is there
are six more already available. You won't regret meeting Mr.
Gunn, and you will be eager to make his aquaintence again and
again.