Hellboy The Lost Army, Christopher Golden
Hellboy The Lost Army, Christopher Golden
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Hellboy: The Lost Army

Author: Christopher Golden

Narrator: Wayne Mitchell

Unabridged: 7 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/02/2020


Synopsis

In 525 B.C., the Persian king Cambyses sent fifty-thousand soldiers across the conquered Egyptian desert to take an oasis city not far from where the Libyan border stands today. According to Greek history, a hurricane-force sandstorm struck near the end of their six-hundred-mile trek. The armyall fifty thousand menvanished without a single trace. Fast forward to 1986. A British archaeological team, sent to the edge of the Great Sand Sea to exhume evidence of the incident, has also gone missing. So the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense is sending the world's greatest paranormal investigator, Hellboy, to find the missing Brits and to discover what became of The Lost Army.

About Christopher Golden

Christopher Golden is the New York Times bestselling author of Of Saints and Shadows, The Myth Hunters, The Boys Are Back in Town, and Snowblind. He has edited the anthologies The New Dead, The Monster's Corner, and 21st Century Dead. Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire, cowritten with Mike Mignola, launched the Eisner Award-nominated comic book series Baltimore.


Reviews

Goodreads review by TK421 on March 04, 2011

Let me say that I am big big big fan of Hellboy. I love the story, the concept, even the character in movie and book and comic format. But HELLBOY: THE LOST ARMY did nothing for me. I found it rambled in too many spots and the story was just a jumbled mess. I understand where Golden was trying to ta......more

Goodreads review by Wing Kee on December 21, 2014

Hellboy and the Mignolaverse is just so dense and amazing that no matter the format the stories takes, if the writers understand it and respect it, you will have a wonderful story. I've never read Christopher Golden's books, I've never even heard of him before this, but when Mignola announced that he......more

Goodreads review by Rob on June 11, 2024

Unfortunately, this one's a DNF. I managed it to the halfway point but then I had to admit I'd just had enough. This book is, for want of a better phrase, two-dimensional. There's no depth to anything here, not the characters, the world or the prose. The whole point, surely, to novelising a comic ser......more

Goodreads review by Aranluc on February 07, 2016

Compré en pack las dos novelas de Hellboy por Christopher Golden y los dos recopilatorios de historias cortas de Hellboy, todo publicado por Norma, en un arrebato porque estaban muy baratos y porque qué puñeta, es Hellboy. No es nada especial, el Hellboy de esta novela recuerda más al de la película......more