- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Scholastic Point (18 May 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0439999049
- ISBN-13: 978-0439999045
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,763,252 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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After saving the town of Stonetree from abduction by the sinister rail baron Robur Drache, servant of the Faceless, gunslinger Tyler and Indian shaman Fivehawk have tracked the villain to the Burnt Hills mine. Both are searching for family members kidnapped by Drache's minions, and Tyler knows that his paternal Uncle Bill is being held in the prison camp set up around the mine. Fivehawk searches for allies in a legendary tribe of Indian warriors and Tyler bluffs his way into the heart of the enemy camp. But the chief of the tribe refuses to help Fivehawk and Tyler, so Tyler sets out alone to rescue his uncle.
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Underworld continues the Sundowners series, following on from the events in book one, Ghost Town. It marks a change of pace as Tyler and Fivehawk head out into the desert to confront the plans of Robur Drache, the villain. As with all the books, I took locations and props that are familiar from stories of the Wild West - in this case, an abandoned mine - and added a dose of the extraordinary to give it a different spin. In many ways, Underworld is Tyler's story more than Fivehawk's, as it gives the young cowboy a few tough choices to make about his future and their friendship.
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Leading Gabriel Tyler and Jonathan Fivehawk further into the realms of the unimaginable "Underworld" takes the threads from "Ghost Town" and weaves them through another tale of real people faced with the horror of evil both in it's more mundane and then otherworldly forms.
Proving they're more than just pure-white heroes, I liked the way that Tyler and Fivehawk rub each other up the wrong way on more than one occasion in this book. They also have self doubt and moments of selfishness. It all makes the characters much more rounded.
The awful conditions in and around the mine are well described, and the petty thuggery of the hired hands fits easily into the overall image of Drache's minions that has been built up.
The character of Tulsa is also well drawn, a spunky gal who's trying not to lose all hope and dignity in a situation she has very little control over. I liked her a lot.
The Hidden People are sympathetically portrayed, and not as clichéd as many native Americans seem to be in some books.
I have to say that "Underworld" is my favourite of the two books so far. The characters have grown some between the books it seems, and mesh in a more adult fashion, and although they are still mostly stupid, the henchmen seem much more 'real' as well this time round.
"Underworld" is a great story, and though it ties up some threads from "Ghost Town" there must be more adventures to come for Tyler and Fivehawk.
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