July, 1926 finds ace pilot Jack McGraw and scientist Dorothy “Doc” Starr, agents of Thomas Edison’s A.E.G.I.S. Foundation, in hot pursuit of evil agents murdering prominent captains of industry. The trail soon leads them to face an old enemy they thought vanquished. To save the day, Jack and Doc travel to the Himalayas in the airship Daedalus. Together with their crewmates, suave English radioman Edward “Duke” Willis, curmudgeonly Bronx mechanic Carl “Rivets” Holloway and laconic Cherokee sharpshooter Charlie “Deadeye” Dalton, they embark on a perilous quest to find a hidden kingdom in the heart of the mountains known as Shambala, where the only antidote to the world’s deadliest poison still grows wild.
Published in cooperation with Deep7 Press, and based on the Airship Daedalus retro pulp comic strip by Todd Downing and Brian Beardsley, Assassins of the Lost Kingdom is the debut novel of author E.J. Blaine. Assassins of the Lost Kingdom plunges readers into a fast-paced tale of mobsters, mad science, secret societies, occult threats, and lost worlds. Come along for globe-trotting, sky-high aerial adventure and two-fisted heroism, like the pulp novels of old!