Shadow Man
by Cody McFadyen
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Author: Cody McFadyenEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-03-27
ISBN: 0553589938
Number of pages: 496
Publisher: Bantam
Book Reviews of Shadow Man
Book Review: Excellent!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is good, really good. Someone compared him to Pat Cornwell, but he's much better. Cornwell might be mired in her own success, I own a lot of her books, but I couldn't even finish her last one because it dwelt too much in her character's life stories and not on the events.
Mcfadyen's book is much darker, much darker than anything I've read, the killer in it has reached new highs, or should I say, reached new lows of depravity. I won't spoil it, suffice to say that the killer is much more depraved than any written by Cornwell or even the Preston/Child team. This book is one of the most disturbing I've read for a while, and I've read a lot of books. The faint of heart should not be reading it.
A really good part in the beginning was in how the protagonist dealt with a her feelings of a previous case when she went in to see her psychiatrist. I think it's the most detailed description I've seen, but we are even shown a second session.
I like her team as well. Described enough to make them intriging and real, but not overly done to make them annnoying. You like a book because you like the characters and so far I do. And so far, we don't see the killer, that's great - I don't want to see things from his POV (like McGarrity writes), then there would be no suspense.
The police procedural stuff is good, for some reason, even better than veteran authors like Michael Connolly who knows what he's writing. It's quite amazing that it's this author's first book, he's done a very excellent job for a first book or any book.
Only some very minor nigglings 1) The FBI computer guy says that everyone can be traced through their IP address, not true, they can disguise themselves by using a proxy, or an internet cafe. There are a few other small things as well. The author should probably get a technical consultant. A little weak there.
2) The killer is too omniscient. I just find that weak too, when the killer is too powerful, it just isn't realistic. For one thing, where does this guy have time to do all that stuff and carry on with his normal life?
SPOILER: It was pretty neat in how they found the killer, but the author should probably have put a few twists there. The story demanded that it should have been more difficult, but perhaps he wanted to end the book. The ending was slightly disappointing, and I have to admit, few things could have topped the build up. In fact, only an unfinished ending could have topped it.
In any case, the book was good. It was one good book out of 4 or 5 I've picked up in the past 2 weeks or so. I'm looking foward to his next book though I don't want to see it dwell too much on the Smoky's love life or family life. Now click your 1click button!
Summary of Shadow Man
Once, Special Agent Smoky Barrett hunted serial killers for the FBI. She was one of the best?until a madman terrorized her family, killed her husband and daughter, and left her face scarred and her soul brutalized. Turning the tables on the killer, Smoky shot him dead?but her life was shattered forever.Now Smoky dreams about picking up her weapon again. She dreams about placing the cold steel between her lips and pulling the trigger one last time. Because for a woman who?s lost everything, what is there left to lose?
She?s about to find out.
In all her years at the Bureau, Smoky has never encountered anyone like him?a new and fascinating kind of monster, a twisted genius who defies profilers? attempts to understand him. And he?s issued Smoky a direct challenge, coaxing her back from the brink with the only thing that could convince her to live.
The killer videotaped his latest crime?an act of horror that left a child motherless?then sent a message addressed to Agent Smoky Barrett. The message is enough to shock Smoky back to work, back to her FBI team. And that child awakens something in Smoky she thought was gone forever.
Suddenly the stakes are raised. The game has changed. For as this deranged monster embarks on an unspeakable spree of perversion and murder, Smoky is coming alive again?and she?s about to face her greatest fears as a cop, a woman, a mother?and a merciless killer?s next victim.
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