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The Face of Death

ebook / ISBN-13: 9781848943889

Price: £9.99

ON SALE: 26th November 2009

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Thriller / Suspense

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Why did he leave her alive?

They find the girl in the master bedroom, the bodies of the family around her. She’s holding a gun to her head. And she will only talk to Smoky Barrett.
Smoky is just starting to pick up the pieces of her own life. She knows what it’s like to lose everyone you love. But her tragedy is nothing compared with this case. Because this isn’t the first time it’s happened. Sixteen-year-old Sarah Kingsley has lost her family before. Not once, but twice.
Someone out there wants her to stare death in the face – again and again . . .

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Reviews

Complex and compelling, gory, sick and heartrending...first rate
<i>Bookseller</i>
SHADOW MAN grabs you by the throat and yanks you along for a hell of a scary ride. A spellbinding read from first page to last.
Faye Kellerman
Coldly, stunningly brilliant. Move over Thomas Harris, Mcfadyen has brought a new game to town.
Lisa Gardner on SHADOW MAN
Disturbing ... a promising debut for Mcfadyen, who combines many conventions of the genre but with far more exquisite, intricate results than the norm . . . Pack[s] a visceral punch
<i>Publishers Weekly</i>
As humane as it is violent...Barrett's anger, pain and determination infuse the novel with a raw passion...it will be among the best crime fiction you will read this year
<i>Washington Post</i> on SHADOW MAN
Terrifically good, terrifically scary . . . very hard to put down
<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> on SHADOW MAN
'An excellent read...Mcfadyen manages to mislead the reader down many a wrong path and keep them guessing until the very last minute...an explosive twist to the end'
<i>crimesquad.com</i>
SHADOW MAN is one of the most powerful and authentic portrayals of a serial killer and the people who hunt them I have ever read. It kept me riveted right to the last page. Cody Mcfadyen is the real thing.
John Douglas, author of the #1 bestseller <i>MINDHUNTER: Inside the F.B.I.'s Serial Crime Unit</i>
A truly talented author
<i>The Sunday Times</i>, Australia
The wildest night ride I have been on for quite a while...By the time you finish reading this book you'll be running on adrenalin you never knew you had. If you're sick of books about serial killers, SHADOW MAN is the cure. Mcfadyen's writing and characterization run long, deep and true. And, by the way, he is beyond scary. Not to be missed
<i>Bookreporter.com</i>
Authentic...handled well with some unexpected twists and turns. Mcfadyen has drawn Barrett and her fellow FBI members tenderly and intricately
<i>Shots Magazine</i> on SHADOW MAN
I'm still reeling after reading this high-octane, heart-pumping FBI thriller...Brilliant. But not for the squeamish
<i>****Good Reading</i>, Australia
This is one of the best serial killer novels that I've read. It's up there with the early Patricia Cornwell novels, Primal Fear and The Silence of the Lambs - a stunning first novel
<i>Manly Daily</i>
Mcfadyen has managed to deliver something fresh. His style of narration sucks the reader in from the first sentence and the story has enough plot twists to keep you intrigued to the last page. A superb debut novel, hopefully a sign of things to come from a truly talented author. In a word: chilling
<i>Herald Sun</i>, Australia
If you like to be scared so witless you hold your breath for pages at a time, SHADOW MAN won't disappoint
<i>New Idea</i>, Australia
Gripping from the first page to the last. The twists and turns in this thriller keep you in suspense until the last page
<i>New Books Magazine</i>