Shadow Strike is Aiden Bailey’s most personal, kinetic and powerful thriller yet as he pits the Trigger Man against the man who created him.
Racing through the bustling streets of Osaka all the way to the jungles of Southeast Asia, Mark Pierce is relentless in his pursuit of a Chinese hypersonic missile that crashed in Japanese territorial waters. At the same time, a face from his past recognizes Pierce as a name long lost, Arkady Volkov of Russian Special Forces. With his past crashing down on his present, he must outmaneuver the threats before they envelop him into the darkness he thought he had earlier escaped.
Aiden Bailey lets loose his protagonist to go berserk in Shadow Strike and I’m very glad he did, for all the riveting action sequences and personal touches that mark this story as Bailey’s best work. While we’ve seen Mark go up against corrupt and cerebral villains, Pierce now has to physically match up against his old mentor. From zipping bike chases to hide-and-seek with pistols, Shadow Strike makes good on its promise to hook your attention and keep you locked in.
For fans of the series, this book is a major pay off as we finally learn some harrowing secrets about Mark Pierce, aka Arkady Volkov. The secrets that have been simmering in the last few stories finally erupt into a frenzy of emotions and developments that ensure you won’t look at Pierce the same way again. With the narrative diving into Pierce’s electric and tragic past while also dealing with the present day crisis of an incredibly dangerous missile falling into the wrong hands, the momentum never lets up for you to give it a rest. You’re constantly scrambling to find out what happens next in a flow state that stems from gripping writing and cinematic action.
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