‘The Dog Hunters’- An Epic 12th Century Take On 21st Century Issues. And a Farting Wolfhound.

Author David Bell announces the paperback publication of ‘The Dog Hunters’, a historically based medieval adventure mystery for the Young Adult market.
 
 
Available worldwide through print on demand
Available worldwide through print on demand
NORTH SHORE, New Zealand - Aug. 19, 2013 - PRLog -- There’s nothing new about weapons of mass destruction, and in this book, the weapon is a massive Irish wolfhound named Gelert. 'The Dog Hunters' is an epic medieval adventure mystery spun from strands of historical and scientific facts. Young readers will be disturbed to find that mankind has been messing around with biological warfare and genetic engineering for many centuries...

The story: While brave Welshmen die fighting English invaders, young Prince Llewelyn is forced to study Plato. But then a mighty Chinese war fleet arrives, offering to annihilate Wales's oldest enemy. The Chinese Emperor's price? Llewelyn's oldest friend, Gelert the legendary and stupendously flatulent wolfhound. Boy and dog are kidnapped and dragged across stormy oceans and scorpion-infested deserts in a nightmare journey involving flying dogs, berserk baboons, and thousand-year-old sailors. Thoughts of escape dissolve when the young prince falls for Feiyan, a bewitching, angry girl with an agenda of her own. But just as he takes up the cause of the Jiang freedom fighters against the remorseless forces of the Chinese Emperor, Llewelyn discovers the horrifying truth behind Jiang plans to use Gelert ...


Paperback available through Createspace (https://www.createspace.com/4363910)


5 Star Amazon Reviews- e.g...the characters are fresh and exciting and the plot revolves around believable exotic breeds of dogs rather than easy magic worlds and hobgoblins. It’s very visceral; there’s plenty of gore, vomit and other bodily mess to satisfy the most ghoulish young reader and set in the 1200’s it brings to life a period of time which rarely appears in fiction - let alone childrens’ fiction. 10/10 for originality and well crafted imagination. Kelvin Johnston 4 July 2013

David Bell on the background to the narrative: "'The Dog Hunters' is an unashamedly beat ’em up, fart-fugged romp. However, beneath all the adventuring, the story’s heart lies in themes of loyalty, liberty and duty, with a simmering subtext of gender issues. These are eternal problems that all youngsters have to come to terms with, both in their personal lives and in the bigger world. But to make things more interesting, I’ve burdened Llewelyn and Feiyan with the terror of biological warfare- advanced stuff for a story set in the time of the crusades. It's been fun lobbing historically based narrative missiles into the Young Adult book battlefield. Mainly though,” laughs David Bell, “it’s the story of a lad trying to prove himself while handling a titanic wolfhound with even bigger bowel problems".


See the video trailer for 'The Dog Hunters' at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GegUkWHbWJc



About David Bell: David Bell grew up on a diet of ‘Tintin’, ‘Sharpe’ novels, and CGI free action movies. He studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Liverpool Art School, and with a successful career in London advertising under his belt, swapped hemispheres to do ads in New Zealand. In 1999 he set up Adschool, Auckland’s internationally acclaimed course for aspiring young writers and art directors before returning in 2010 to creative advertising, a job he now shares his first love- storytelling.

David uses Auckland NZ as a base from which to travel the world with Jeneal and Frank, their son. ‘The Dog Hunters' eBook has already garnered 5 star reviews on Amazon worldwide, and David is currently working on the illustrated version of the story while rushing to finish 'The Dog Army', the second book in the adventures of Llewelyn and Gelert.


Historical background, weird and wonderful dogs, illustrations, more 5 Star reviews and eBook information through 'The Dog Hunters' (http://www.davidnbell.com/The_Dog_Hunters_Book/The_Dog_Hu...)
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