Shadow Maker
by
James Hannibal
Order:
USA
Can
Berkley, 2014 (2014)
Softcover, CD, e-Book
Reviewed by Bob Walch
T
he second title in a new series by James Hannibal, this latest Nick Baron adventure has the Air Force Major and his Triple Seven Chase team up against an unknown adversary who has already launched an attack on the National Mall in the nation's capitol.
A
pparently the ultimate goal, after a number of attacks, is a final apocalypse over Jerusalem. As the story plays out Bardon and his opponent, dubbed
The Emissary
, are locked in a high stakes digital chess game. Every time he loses a piece on the board, Bardon also loses one of his men.
W
ith time running out and his unit being slowly whittled away, the undercover Cerberus operative is going to have to find his deadly nemesis before the game ends in total disaster.
I
ntroduced in
Shadow Catcher
, Nick Baron is a new action hero who has already shown he is a man to be reckoned with. Military fiction fans will find Baron an intriguing character and one worth following in the years to come.
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