Hunt for the Blower Bentley Kevin Gosselin 9781780920184 Books
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War-torn Great Britain - Stephan Sidlow employs Blower Bentley SM 3912 to rapidly crisscross England to help and to harm her. Present day - Automotive archaeologist Faston Hanks is cajoled into taking on the hunt to find the last missing Blower Bentley. A hunt worth millions of dollars and that might also foil the boldest collector car crime ever.
Hunt for the Blower Bentley Kevin Gosselin 9781780920184 Books
Definitely better editing than "The Hunt for 901". I am hooked on Faston Hanks. Love the fact that his wife Caprice has a more prominent role.Product details
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Hunt for the Blower Bentley Kevin Gosselin 9781780920184 Books Reviews
Nice mix of WWII history with good stuff for vintage car people.
I read, and liked, Hunt for 901 by Mr. Gosselin. But I really, really liked this book. I found out about it when Brian Johnson in Octane praised it in his column as 'pure magic'.
It is a serious thriller. Much less comedy than the first Hunt for 901, but Charles and Faston still manage to have a good time and a few laughs.
The story weaves back and forth between WWII and the present day to find the Blower Bentley. All in all, the wartime scenes are atmospheric and well paced.
I lent the book to my Dad who is a huge WWII buff, but not a car fan, and he liked it. Especially all the details included about living in wartime England. One seen in particular he said stuck out was the inclusion of an anecdote about a town that painted all their horses white so that when people were traveling during the blackout conditions you could see the horses easier. Odd but true.
The present day hunt for the car is filled with lots of detail about the car and its true history. The epilogue is a must read.
I went back and skimmed the reviews of Hunt for 901 and some people loved it and others did not. Most because they said there was not enough 'car' in a novel about cars. I think Mr. Gosselin heard those rather rough reviews as this book is chock full of the Blower Bentley from page 1 to the last page.
There are certain cars that reach a level of mythic popularity even though most people have never seen a real one in the flesh. These are the cars that have more replicas and tributes of them made than were in the original production run. These are the Shelby Cobras. The GT40s. And, of course, the Blower Bentley.
And the Blower might be the rarest of the bunch, with only fifty built. And the Bentley people being Bentley people, they know the location or fate of all but one. And that is chassis number SM 3912. And this is the car that Mr. Gosselin constructs a vivid, fact-filled story around.
I was given a copy of Mr. Gosselin's first automotive novel, Hunt for 901 years ago, was intrigued, but could tell that it was a first novel. Just a couple of chapters into Hunt for the Blower Bentley I could tell that this was a much more polished, focused, well-paced and plotted piece.
The story starts in 1939 in England, where we meet a Stephan Sidlow who is about to acquire a new-to-him Blower Bentley. The prologue is cracking. Twists and surprises a few pages into a book make for a page turner in my mind.
We then leap into the story proper. With Faston Hanks, the mercurial automotive hunter. Charles his elderly, scholarly sidekick. And Caprice, his charming wife who takes a much larger role in this book than in 901. They are introduced to a veil-thin lead regarding the resting-place of SM 3912. And they take it. Epic searches I guess are somewhat alike as this takes years. But there is a wrinkle, in the form of Mr. Patrick, a collector-car dealer who deals on the shady side of the business and forces urgency into the hunt.
Chapters jump from WWII England where Stephan uses the Blower and where we ultimately find out what happened to it with a modern account of the search for it. Like the movie Titanic. Or The Usual Suspects. It is a common technique but put to good use here to cover a lot of ground and over 7 decades of time.
Now, if I only could afford even a replica of a Blower Bentley all would be good. Anyone fancy joining me on a hunt to find the real SM 3912, Mr. Gosselin has me thinking I just might be able to find it.
Frankly I don't get it?
I heard about this book on the radio and got for my husband, the total car guy. So far he is about 1/3 way through it (which is huge as he is usually a car mag kinda man) and he says its great. Think it would be a good choice for any car enthusiast looking for murder mystery.
Definitely better editing than "The Hunt for 901". I am hooked on Faston Hanks. Love the fact that his wife Caprice has a more prominent role.
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