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Ivanhoe Gambit [Paperback]

Simon Hawke (Author)
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  • Paperback: 260 pages
  • Publisher: Pulpless.com, Incorporated (31 Jan 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1584450215
  • ISBN-13: 978-1584450214
  • Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.7 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 6,374,082 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Back cover of The Ivanhoe Gambit
The Adventure Begins.

Book One in Simon Hawke's best selling Time Wars series!

Sometimes Sergeant Major Lucas Priest wondered why he had enlisted in the U.S. Army Temporal Corps. Fighting in the Time Wars wasn't the easiest way to make a living. Sailing with Lord Nelson, battling Custer at Little Big Horn, and a year of pillaging with Attila and his Huns had left him ready for a vacation.

But a demented scheme to impersonate the King of England was threatening to change the course of history. Two army teams had already failed to intercept the madman. So Lucas and his men must clock back to the twentieth century to try and prevent an irreversible split in time.

But when Lucas discovers whom they were to impersonate, he almost wishes that Hannibal had killed him back in Carthage. How were Ivanhoe, Robin Hood, and a band of merry outlaws supposed to protect the future of the world?

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4.0 out of 5 stars First in the "Time Wars" series 3 Jun 2007
By Marshall Lord TOP 100 REVIEWER
Format:Paperback
This is the first in Simon Hawke's 12 "Time Wars" novels about a crack team of time travelling agents.

It kicks off a humorous and well written series about a group of operatives who travel through time to prevent other time travellers from causing damage to history.

Sometimes, as in this book, their opponents are rogue individuals or groups of terrorists who are trying to subert the past for their own purposes: sometimes they come up against operatives from rival alternative futures who are trying to defend their own versions of history.

All 12 books in this series pay humorous homage to a great work of literature, to a set of historical events, or both. Most of these books go back to the time and events of a classic novel, in this case, obviously, "Ivanhoe" by Sir Walter Scott, and revisit the events of that novel, usually with a humorous slant.

The books are best read in the correct sequence, as follows (I have put the name of the literary work and/or historical events associated with each book in brackets afterwards)

1) The Ivanhoe Gambit (Ivanhoe)
2) The Timekeeper Conspiracy (The Three Musketeers)
3) The Pimpernel Plot (French Revolution & terror/Scarlet Pimpernel)
4) The Zenda Vendetta (The Prisoner of Zenda)
5) The Nautilus Sanction (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
6) The Kyber Connection (works of Rudyard Kipling/early life of Churchill)
7) The Argonaut Affair (Jason and the quest for the Golden Fleece)
8) The Dracula Caper (Sherlock Homes meets Bram Stoker's Count Dracula)
9) The Lilliput Legion (Gulliver's travels)
10) The Hellfire Rebellion (American War of Independence/Hellfire Club)
11) The Cleopatra Crisis (Caesar and Cleopatra)
12) The Six-gun solution (Gunfight at the OK Corral)

Not terribly serious but very good fun: I can recommend this series, and if you want to read it, start with this one.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Surprised as hell 5 Jun 1999
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
A friend recomended another of Simon's books, I was thuroughly impressed. Ivanhoe didn't look like anything I would like at all, but was looking for more of his stuff and most is out of print. He is nothing less than a master at his craft, a real professional. In plot and style I would never go for this, but he just does it so damn well! This book flashs by like what should have been an early eighties T.V. show, and yet is full of jems for any fantasy fan. He has some of the best tournamental compitions (jousting, archery, etc)scenes I'v ever read. He pulls it off, though, in a way that never bogs down for a second. Can't reccomend high enough! Go look for the rest of the series, I am. (There's eight of them, yes!)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Time travel isn't all that it's cracked up to be. 18 Jan 1999
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Format:Paperback
When I first laid eyes on this book, I admit, I judged the book by it's cover. I read this book when it first came out, and I eagerly awaited each subsequent novel to be released, culminating in 13 novels in the series. Mr. Hawke's method of including the reader in the past piques your curiosity into the time period, and wants you to go out and read up on the actual historical events. This book was an easy read for late teens, but the theories are clearly for the adult. Don't be fooled when you THINK you understand temporal mechanics in book #1 - it gets worse...much worse.
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