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by Jonathon King (Author)
3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Orion (20 May 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752861581
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752861586
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,340,126 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Mark Timlin, The Independent on Sunday
'Jonathon King just gets better and better. Just about as perfect as a crime novel can be.' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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'Jonathon King just gets better and better. Just about as perfect as a crime novel can be.' (Mark Timlin The Independent on Sunday )

"Jonathon King just gets better with each book... another absorbing mystery from a writer to deserves to be better known." (Susanna Yager The Sunday Telegraph )

"Cleverly plotted, with a diverse set of entirely believable characters ... an edgy thriller made all the more enjoyable by its quirky setting." (GOOD BOOK GUIDE )

"A hard-boiled thriller" (PETERBOROUGH EVENING TELEGRAPH, 17 July )

"The prologue is harrowing... a simple and relatively uncomplicated story, with sufficient dramas in the narrative to keep it moving. Enjoyable." (Denise Pickles REVIEWINGTHEEVIDENCE.COM ) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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2.0 out of 5 stars A shadow of his former books, 3 Oct 2005
By Sam "samueltyler" (Reading, Berkshire) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shadow Men (Paperback)
Jonathon King has created a series of dark American crime thrillers that I have enjoyed greatly. That is until thin latest installment. Max Freeman is back, and this time he is sent by his lawyer friend, Billy, to discover the truth about a murder that occurred 80 years earlier.

'Shadow Men' has little direction and instead seems to meander around for the first two thirds until suddenly racing towards its conclusion. It could be argued that King was looking to expand the details of his characters in this novel but he only succeeded in boring me with them.

The case is too slow and the coincidences too unbelievable for me to enjoy. Let's hope King returns back to his best with his next outing.

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4.0 out of 5 stars "Something was coming...I knew I would not welcome it", 31 May 2004
By Sebastian Fernandez (Tampa, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
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Edgar Award winning author Jonathon King presents his third novel in the Max Freeman series. I have really enjoyed all three books and specially like the way in which the author allows us glimpses of Max's past in each of the novels, letting us build an ever-growing detailed depiction of the main character. In the previous books, we found out about the episode that made Max leave the Philly police department and "retire" to the Everglades; now King takes us deeper into the relationship between Max and his father.

Billy, Max's attorney and best friend, has a client that found a bunch of letters from one of his ancestors who worked along with his two sons in the construction of the Tamiami Trail. The letters describe the hardships they had to go through, as well as a series of "accidents" suffered by some of the workers who decided they had enough and tried to leave the project and return to civilization. At one point the letters stopped and nobody ever heard from the three men again. Billy requests Max's help in investigating what happened, and this make some people very nervous.

At the same time, the DA is trying to evict Max from his shack in the Everglades and someone is going through the trouble of threatening Max and attacking his dwelling. Sherry Richards, the police officer Max "discovered" and fell for in the previous novel is still around and the relationship is still on track. However, a fellow female officer of Richard's is the victim of abuse by her lover, who is also a cop, and Max and Richards end up involved in the issue. These events are the ones that get Max to recall the events from the past that relate to his father.

Jonathon King is moving forward through this series with a sure step and without losing intensity. In my particular case, I enjoy the fact that the novel is set up in the Miami / Ft. Lauderdale area, since I lived there for a couple of years and can "see" the places the author describes very clearly. Also, I have driven through the Tamiami Trail several times, and it is interesting to know at least part of the history on its construction, even though some of the facts presented by King are fiction.

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5.0 out of 5 stars In no ones shadow, 20 Jan 2006
By I. J. Lilley "Bookworm" (London England) - See all my reviews
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Thrilling, Kings best yet, atmospheric, frightening, this is a real page turner. I finished it at almost one sitting. This is one of my favourite thrillers of the season, certainly up there alongside Steve Hamiltons' Ice Run', and Bradley T. Platts fantasic debut thriller 'Deadstream'.
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