Magi Media Publications is pleased to announce the release of Shadow Dancers, a novel by F. Barton Davis.
Shadow Dancers fuses elements of the horror genre with traditional fantasy. Instead of ogres and trolls it has werewolves and vampires. Its endangered princess is an NYU student, its reluctant hero is a New York detective, and its half-caste tormented, champion of justice is a Shadow Dancer, who has wandered the earth for six millennia. This faraway land of magic and mystery exists within the shadows of New York City.
Detective Jeffery Cole has the "good fortune" of investigating a Central Park murder that appears to have no logical solution. There are two witnesses who are equally unreliable: The crazy one is a young lady, Tricia Morningstar, who claims that her friend was killed by werewolves. The other is James Brooks, a mystery man, an ex-cop from Detroit. Yet by all accounts, Officer Brooks died two years ago. Who is this man, really? The more Cole investigates the case, the stranger things become. He is drawn into a world that shouldn't exist, a world governed by a simple rule: things are not as they appear.
What others are saying:
From the first page of Shadow Dancers I was hooked and could not put it down. Mr.
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is weaves an incredible tale where black and white, good and evil, heaven and
hell, God and Satan, mythology and religion, love and hate, war and peace, history and current eve
nts combine and intertwine. His eloquently written descriptions of the ´gray zone´, which is where these images gel and actually take on a life of their own, as well as, the characters´ personalities, traits, and special abilities, which are so real that you can practically reach out and touch them, smell them, and feel them. To say this is a classic fight between good and evil would be to short sell this book because it is so much more.
Michelle Malsbury, California Chronicle
In Shadow Dancers, Davis displays exceptional creativity and talent for writing fantasy. He has combined elements of theology, mythology and science-fiction to create a super-natural story full of down-to-earth and out-of-this-world characters.
If any readers have read the Frank Peretti novels This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness, they will find some similarities here; however, you also have to throw in some Dean Koontz and maybe a little Narnia (w/o the talking animals) or Harry Potter. In other words, this is an intriguing, intelligently written novel. And this genre is really outside my usual area of reading, but once I got into it, I was into it. Craig Stephans
For a quarter of a century, Frank Davis has served as a minister of the gospel in such diverse places as College Park, MD, Tallahassee, FL, New York, NY, Atlanta, GA, Harare, Zimbabwe, and Nairobi Kenya. Presently, he serves as the lead evangelist for the Birmingham Church in Birmingham, AL.