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.
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Smoky is a shattered FBI Agent. She witnessed her husband and daugthers killing, was tortured and raped. She's literally standing on the brink and there is just one step missing when the death of her beloved highschool friend jerks her back into life and into what her core once was: A fierce dragon, hunting serial killers having a fabulous team on her side and her god-child Bonnie now depending on her.
When it becomes clear the killer is fixated on Smoky to the point of sneaking into her home, bugging her phone and car time is getting precious. He already initiated personal attacks on the rest of her team and threatened future ones against the people she loves - she has left.
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A powerful writing that kept me reading. Smoky's background sounds so convincing that the reader truly wishes the Smoky Barret series would have begun with her past but it didn't take anything away from this thriller. This is Cody McFadyen's first novel and it certainly has it's few downs but mostly it was fast paced and thoughtful.
I kept wondering who might be the killer because he always knew so much about what was going on, who was where etc. . For me it became pretty clear the killer must be an insider with access but in the end it became a bit predictable.
For me it is hard to imagine this being the first novel by Cody McFadyen because the characters are such credible, multidimensional and memorable. I once had the same feeling with the first Kay Scarpetta novels by Cornwell.
There is a new writer on his way to the top if he keeps up what he's done in 'Shadow Man'.
A sequel has already been published with a third thriller on the go, scheduled for publishing at the end of September 2008.
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Mass Market Paperback: 496 pages
Publisher: Bantam (March 27, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0553589938
ISBN-13: 978-0553589931
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