Warrior In The Shadows (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Marcus Wynne | knygos.lt

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WARRIOR IN THE SHADOWS was written after a magazine assignment in Queensland, Australia. I'd been assigned by an adventure travel magazine to go to the Jowalbinna Bush Camp, deep in an Aboriginal preserve, home to one of the world's greatest concentrations of prehistoric sacred rock art. My host was a taciturn former Australian SAS operator turned reclusive bush-guide. He was a treasure trove of insights on bush lore, aboriginal magic, and the very strange history of the Jowalbinna area. Mysterious disappearances, sightings of prehistoric animals caught on infra-red cameras, magical occurrences including duels between competing sorcerers, amazing tales shared over the camp fire -- rich grist for a fellow story teller.


On the plane home, I began to wonder what if you were to drop a special operations soldier, one of the elite of the elite like the Special Activities Division people as seen in the recent film MILE 22 (and featured in my first novel, NO OTHER OPTION), into conflict with an equally skilled special operations soldier --- who was also a black magician?


The idea took hold of me, and I couldn't let it go. Part of the challenge was to combine the reality of the special operations skill sets with the "magical reality" of someone who lived and breathed that Other World...as the people I'd met in Jowalbinna did.


So meet Charley Payne, police photographer with a shadowy past in the most elite special operations unit in the US arsenal, and Alfie Woodard, a cheerful leather clad rock star type who just happens to be a former Australian SAS operator, international assassin, and...a black magician.