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A blind obsession. A driving ambition. A relentless, unrestrained, single-minded pursuit of a shiny metallic. They are the symptoms of a condition known as yellow metal fever, and, like Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, American mining engineer Captain Humbert Reynolds has got it bad. Possible area effects include: momentary insanity, a propensity for assault, and loss of life.
The seek out gold has taken Reynolds from the ruins of the Yucatan to the mountains of Ecuador to the wilderness of north Canada. Now, his visit a yellowish brick bonanza has brought him halfway surrounding the world, to the Gobi desert.
But the lure of the precious metal is about to lead Reynolds into a Golden Hell, as he plunges into an inferno—a pile of horrors run by an unspeakably wicked gang. If he doesn’t find a way out, a way to redemption, he may find that rather than snatching the ultimate prize he'll have to pay the ultimate price.
In 1927 Hubbard served aboard a schooner sailing across the South Pacific destined for the shoreline of China. Making his way inland, he ventured deep into forbidden Buddhist lamaseries, shopped at the Thieves Market, made camp with Mongolian bandits, and witnessed the trade in taken Chinese treasures. Sketching on those experience as well as his time as a yellow metal prospector, Hubbard infuses Golden Hell with astonishing historical authenticity.
Also includes the experience, Pearl Pirate, a story of betrayal and deceit in which an American captain manages to lose his ship to a money-lender, and the only path to obtain it again is to outfight and outfox a ruthless pirate and bring home a lot of money in black pearls.
