Warrior in the Shadows

This was another good book by Marcus Wynne.He has turned out to be one of the most unique writers that I have read. In thisbook our hero is Charley Payne.He has left his employment at theCIA to become a forensic photographer for the Minneapolis police.Payne is called in to photograph scene where the victim is partially devoured.Charley also notices a painting on the wall from the Aboriginis. The murderer is Alfie Woodard who is an Aborigini warrior who also served in the SAS.Alfie is a contract killer who works forJay Burrell a big drug dealer.Alfie uses his tribal practices tostrike fear in his victims.Alfie kills one of Charley Payne's friends and his family. Charley hooks up with Kativa Patel,an expert in Laura region art.They fly together to Australia to pursue Alfie Woodard.Oncethere a battle ensues. This is another good book fron Marcus Wynne who has come upwith another frightening villain in Alfie Woodard.In "No Other Option" Jonny Maxwell were scary as well.Buy this book and read it. It is excellent.

The pull behind Warriors in the Shadows was so great, I almost missed going to daily Mass. The smooth transitions of events from chapter to chapter took such hold of me I would have stayed up all night if my 70-year-old eyes let me. Needless to say, I gave up breakfast just to finish the book. This is a real 'wow' book and so satisfying. Even the descriptions of weapons seemed to be integral to the plot and I even read them if just to compare weapons, and for a little old lady, that is something. I love the battle scene. The writer's descriptions sure took me into the cave and yet made me see and feel for the aborigines. I see them as powerful despite their ancient practices especially in this technological world.

Alfie Woodward combines the skills that he learned as an Australian Special Air Forces soldier with his Aboriginal spiritual beliefs to form an incredibly successful killing machine. He leaves behind quite a crime scene starring his latest victim, Minneapolis banker Madison Simmons as Alfie not only paints an Aboriginal painting using his victim's blood, he also strips meat and organs from the corpse, fries them, and eats them.Police Sergeant Bobby Lee Martaine heads the murder investigation that includes his military buddy Charley Payne as a civilian contract forensic photographer. Charley takes his copies of the weird photos to his artist girlfriend Mara Steinway who introduces him to Aboriginal art expert Kativa Patel. She explains the murder ritual of killing with a blunt object and eating the deceased to reduce their afterlife prowess, and concludes the portrait is the signature of the killer. When Bobby, his wife, and eight year old child is murdered, Charley knows that he has his own ritual to perform on the Aboriginal killer.Warrior in the Shadow is an exciting police procedural that grabs the audience with its opening salvo about Madison being eaten and never lets go until the final confrontation to include Kativa in the Outback. The superb story line is a police procedural thriller that enables the audience to observe a different much greater depth side than Crocodile Dundee provided. Marcus Wynne lives up to his surname with a winner that genre fans will devour, but not with bacon.Harriet Klausner

After finishing 'No Other Option', I made a bee line to the bookstore to get Marcus Wynne's latest. Warrior in the Shadows dances along the metaphysical with a tension underneath that builds till you can't stand it. I have to carefully turn certain pages so as to not accidently see ahead and spoil whats coming next in a sequence that is like being out on a recon mission. You feel as though you are there. I believe the author was.Gary Delaney

I've been a thriller writer for more than thirty years (FIRST BLOOD, THE FIFTH PROFESSION), and I can't recall being this excited about a new talent. As Stephen Coonts notes on this book's cover, Marcus Wynne is a been-there-and-done-it action writer. A former paratrooper and Federal Air Marshal, he uses authentic details, many of which have not been in a novel before. His writing is also exceedingly vivid. A great ride.