"The Nine Unknown is an occult thriller for fans of the Indiana Jones movies, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, Rudyard Kipling's Kim and, of course, Mundy's other supernaturally inflected adventure classics." -Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
"Talbot Mundy was one of the bestselling writers of adventure fiction of his day." -Peter Berresford Ellis, The Last Adventurer
"The story of the Nine Unknown Men was popularized for the first time in 1923 by Talbot Mundy. His book is half fiction, half scientific inquiry." -Louis Pauwels & Jacques Bergier, The Morning of the Magicians
"One of the kings of the pulps was Talbot Mundy." -Famous Pulp Classics
"Jimgrim joins forces with a group of multi-talented comrades to battle the secret forces of the occult in India . . . filled with excellent examples of oriental magic, mysticism, and machination." -Roger C. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy
"Excellent ethnic characterizations . . . Original subject matter, rapid movement. One of the most successful attempts to weld adventure onto the occult novel." -Everett F. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction
"Mundy is in many respects superior to Rider Haggard, although he never achieved the latter's popularity. He has a better sense of character, his plots are much tighter, and his style is smoother." -Fanz Rottensteiner, The Fantasy Book
". . . richly entertaining and imaginative adventure fiction . . ." -Lee Server, Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers
"In retrospect, Mundy can be seen as the most influential and enduring, if not the bestselling, writer of Eastern adventure of his day." -Brian Taves, Talbot Mundy, Philosopher of Adventure
"Talbot Mundy was one of the great fantasy adventure writers of a time when the art of writing a firmly built long magazine story was at its zenith." -Mary Gnaedinger, Famous Fantastic Mysteries
