Immortal From Hell

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This is book 5 of Gene Doucett's “Immortal” series. This book is definitely not a stand-alone book. It follows closely on the heels of the immediately prior book, “Immortal and the Island of Impossible Things” and leaves the protagonist, the immortal man, Adam, in an immediate quandary, which will obviously be the jumping-off point for the next book. If you start with this one, you will be at sea. So don't.

You will also be missing a lot of fun.

Adam is around 60,000 years old, although his memory is crisp only for the last 10,000 years since not much was happening before then. He's gifted with a good immune system but nothing more remarkable than that. He's perennially drunk, sometimes for decades, but he's been fairly sober in this series. His world is people with strange beings of myth and legend, e.g. Elves, Goblins, Imps, pixies, ifrits, etc., that make up the “impossible things” on the “island of impossible things.”

In the prior book, Adam and Mirella, his girlfriend/goblin bodyguard (who is far hotter than the word “goblin”) implies, set up shop on a peaceful island in the South Pacific that was kept secret by the “other species” elite. The tropical paradise was marred by a mysterious message in blood, followed by a tsunami, a cult led by a prophet and murderous mermen, whose existence had never previously been known. In the course of dealing with these trials and tribulations, Adam meets an intelligent troll, discovers a disease that melts people and is surprised by the re-appearance of Eve, who is infected with the disease.

Who is Eve? Good question. Eve is the immortal woman that Adam has been chasing for several thousand years. She has a grudge against Adam and an odd way of getting around explored in “Immortal at the Edge of the World.”

See what I mean about this not being a stand-alone book?

In this book, Adam is off in search of a cure for Eve's disease with Mirella, discovers that there is a bounty on his head, survives assassination attempts in Paris, and travels to Chicago where he was during the Columbian Exposition of 1893. Along the way, Adam discusses how he became acquainted with two serial killers; Jack the Ripper through his friend Herman, and HH Holmes through, again, Herman, aka Herman Muggridge. If that doesn't mean anything to you, then you should read “The Devil in the White City” by Erik Larson. (I have the top-ranked review over there, by the way.)

There is action and adventure and fights galore. For a person who is mostly human standard, Adam is quite capable based on years of experience. These sequences come off as possible with luck and a bad attitude.

The denouement leaves around twenty dead, one of whom is a Chicago Police Department officer, and Adam in possession of the knowledge that there is a plan to exterminate the other species. Also, he learns that Herman is still alive, he's not the only immortal man, and Eve has recovered.

These are fun books. The writing carries the reader along. The character of Adam is sympathetic and humorous. This is exactly the kind of book you have been looking for as a diversion.