Review: Cry of Thunder by Joe Gentile

Cry of Thunder by Joe Gentile

This novel is built on an interesting concept. Sherlock Holmes and Kolchak the Nightstalker both work on the same mystery even though they are separated by roughly a century. The mystery begins with the discovery of a gigantic bird in the old American west. The bird turns out to be a Thunderbird. It continues with Sherlock Holmes running a nice little investigation into criminal activity in London. And ends with Kolchak getting pulled into an investigation of that Thunderbird that lots of people want to stop him from completing.

 

This is a strange book. The individual parts are interesting, but after completing it, I find the connections confusing—especially between Holmes and Kolchak. It’s also not in any way clear to me why people are trying to stop Kolchak’s investigation. So I enjoyed seeing Holmes and Kolchak, but the story itself didn’t hold together for me.

 

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