{"product_id":"lake-of-fire-lionel-houser-9781962896849","title":"Lake of Fire","description":"\u003cb\u003eA dark, brutally savage, noir classic, back in print for the first time in over 95 years...a novel that the \u003ci\u003eLouisville Courier \u003c\/i\u003epromised that no reader would ever forget.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNorris Haldorn will inherit his family's vast fortune...but only after running through a gauntlet of arduous conditions meant to thwart his own ambitions. Under the terms of his father's peculiar will, he must travel for four years, and never within 1000 miles of New York City, while always accompanied by a chaperoned, unmarried woman. For his first trip, he must travel by boat with a strange woman named Night Gambier to a village in Burma, where he finds himself pitted him against a grotesque racketeer who has replaced his amputed legs with marble ones. And that's only the beginning of Haldorn's wild adventures. Before it's over, Haldorn will find himself savagely beaten and hideously deformed...and forced into the incredible position of having to find his own murderer...or die trying. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Written with imaginative zest...a combination of horror, violence, savagery and beauty. A strange, absorbing tale, decidedly out of the ordinary.\" \u003ci\u003eMiami News\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Rumbles with mocking menace. It is an unpleasant belch from the earth's bloated belly. It smells of rank vegetation, of over-ripe bananas, of a fecund imagination. Throughout, the author's voice cackles with derision for the snarling human destinies that twist and turn out of reach of mankind's free will. \" \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn Citizen\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Hauser will madden you at times, horrify and terrify you at others, dazzle you with his brilliancy, all while you wonder if he has not lost his own way in the maze, but he delivers the goods neatly in the last chapter. It is above all a terrific mental drama, presided over by ironic fates.\" \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco News\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"His characters are never etched. He paints a man, a woman, and a place so vividly that no reader is apt to ever forget.\" \u003ci\u003eLouisville Courier-Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Lurid but entertaining...terrible things happen, one of them being about as gruesome an event as is to be found in recent fiction. Houser can be credited with talent as well as a taste for the horrible and the bizarre.\" \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLionel Houser (1908-1949) was the literary editor of the \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco News \u003c\/i\u003ewhen he wrote \u003ci\u003eLake of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, his first novel. He later came a prolific screenwriter, whose work included \u003ci\u003eThey Made Her a Spy, Christmas in Connecticut \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSabotage.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lionel Houser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1962896846\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781962896849\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cutting Edge Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.49d","brand":"Lionel Houser","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801135788287,"sku":"9781962896849","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lake-of-fire-lionel-houser-9781962896849","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}