Eye of the Burning Man A Mick Callahan Novel The Mick Callahan Novels Book 3 edition by Harry Shannon Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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New Mystery Reader said of award-winning author Harry Shannon's series character Mick Callahan, "Mick is all we love to see in a fallen hero; vulnerable, insightful, and just simply a likable guy." Media psychologist Callahan is a failed Navy Seal, a recovering alcoholic and a loyal friend. He's also a man with a hot temper and a talent for getting himself into trouble. In "Eye of the Burning Man" he's on the trail of child pornographers.
"Mick Callahan is a man with a past, a mean right hook, and a radio talk show. He's pretty good at giving people advice - just not necessarily good at taking it. The strength of this series is in its central characters, flawed, human, often funny, sometimes tragic, and the relationships among them."
--Mystery Scene
"Callahan is a fresh new voice, a flawed Everyman hero who knows his own demons and his own limitations yet is strong enough to overcome. This series stands with some of the very best noir mystery fiction around."
--Horror World
"Mick Callahan is not only likeable (as deemed by Library Journal) but he manages to endear himself as a very realistic hero, with a strong sense of purpose and an equal dash of vulnerability."
--Cemetery Dance
"A flawed and edgy hero. Dark wit, excellent writing and action-packed pace."
-The Rap Sheet, January Magazine
"Mick's road to redemption is wry, bittersweet and altogether touching."
--New Mystery Reader
Eye of the Burning Man A Mick Callahan Novel The Mick Callahan Novels Book 3 edition by Harry Shannon Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
Psychologist Mick Callahan has a knack for getting into trouble. A recovering alcoholic, womanizer and fighter (as a child his stepfather forced him to fight for money), he's now on the straight and narrow after barely escaping his last scrape with his life (the events of Shannon's previous novel, Memorial Day). In fact, things are finally looking up; he's got a pretty young girlfriend and a new hit radio talk show.But when Callahan and his date are mysteriously assaulted in the parking lot by a huge tattooed man wearing a black mask, and his housekeeper's adopted son is kidnapped, it seems that trouble has once again found him. Things quickly get worse: an old friend, drug addict and prostitute named Mary calls him with a plea for help, and he can't resist going after her.
The problem is, Mary has fallen in with a very bad group of people, and Callahan quickly finds himself swept up into a dangerous plot. Nothing is as it seems, and he must call in every favor and use every ounce of his strength and cunning to stay alive. Assault, prostitution and child pornography are par for the course as Shannon's taut thriller moves with lightning speed to a thrilling conclusion.
Shannon's prose is effortless as he propels the story along with the practiced ease of a master. There's enough intrigue and plot twists to keep any reader interested, but the real hook of this novel is Callahan himself.
Eye of the Burning Man is, in a word, astonishingly good. This novel is lean, dark and one hell of a lot of fun. Although it's not necessary to read Shannon's previous Callahan novel, Memorial Day, it's worth doing so, if only to see the character change and grow from one book to the next. Callahan is more than an echo of the hard-boiled sleuths from other standout detective series from Parker, Crais, MacDonald and Thompson; he is a fresh new voice, a flawed everyman hero who knows his own demons and his own limitations and is strong enough to overcome.
Put simply, Eye of the Burning Man stands with some of the very best noir mystery fiction around. Shannon deserves a much wider audience for this series, and one can only hope he will land a mass-market deal so that many more readers can become acquainted with Mick Callahan Highly recommended.
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Eye of the Burning Man A Mick Callahan Novel The Mick Callahan Novels Book 3 edition by Harry Shannon Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
(Review originally appeared in Chizine)
Eye of the Burning Man
Harry Shannon splits his time between writing about monsters (Night of the Werewolf) and amateur sleuth Mick Callahan (Memorial Day). Callahan is one in a long line of memorable, colorful amateur sleuths whose adventures we love to share. A licensed therapist and radio talk show host with skeletons of a ruined career and drug-alcohol addictions in his closet, he's also an ex-almost-SEAL and a bare-knuckles boxer abused by his obsessed father. The long list of flaws and near-flaws is what keeps him interestingly contradictory. He's down home, he's Hollywood. He's sensitive, he's a flaring-temper tough guy. He's both of LA and anti-LA. And he's good at dispensing psychology on the air, a sort of cowboy Frasier Crane, but he rarely manages to take his own advice.
Mick's not really a sleuth, as such. He's a knight-errant, a righter of wrongs, a defender of the weak (even if sometimes he is himself weak). He's not an investigator, but more reactionary; he doesn't drive the action, the action drives him. Shannon's deft touch makes these contradictions work, reminding us of our own. We are all slaves to our weaknesses and Callahan, he seems to be saying, is smart enough to recognize his but not always smart enough to beat them. Much more than the plot, we're drawn to Callahan because of who he is.
But the plot's engrossing, too. It's been some time since the events of Memorial Day, and Callahan thinks he's put all the death behind him. He's moved to LA and now has his own hit radio show in a bigger market, dispensing advice to the lovelorn. His own relationships are shaky at best, as proven when he's drawn into a street fight and subsequently dumped by his new girlfriend. But the fight also draws him into yet another violent case. First, his maid's nephew has been kidnapped. Then Mary, who saved his life in the previous book, calls begging for help getting away from a notorious pimp-pornographer. In the meantime, a bizarre FBI agent starts to lean on him as if he's involved in a kiddie-porn organization. Callahan reconnects with Darlene, a beautiful cop he owes big, seeking her help in the kidnapping. But, of course, there's more. The rescued Mary is soon kidnapped, Darlene's cop cousin is shot, and Callahan realizes that he's being lured somewhere for some sort of payback. And he's not one to duck a fight.
The place is Nevada's Burning Man festival (Black Rock City), a dizzying blend of sex, drugs, music, free love, and anti-establishment hedonism (as Mick Callahan sees it). It's a fascinating experiment in community and alternative radical anti-establishmentarianism, but as a recovering addict he's pretty much against it, though he has vague memories of having attended back when he was using. Drawing upon Darlene's off-the-books help, as well as that of his wealthy sponsor, and Jerry the computer expert, Callahan takes the bait and enters the ring once again. Like a boxer who absorbs an opponent's punishment then strikes back decisively when it looks as if it's all over, Callahan finds he's too late for some, just in time for others--his fallibility bears a heavy price. The climax is an explosive exclamation point to the threads which converge in the surreal setting of the festival and its paganistic ritual.
Easy readability gives Eye of the Burning Man a great part of its charm, as does the characterization. Equal parts hard-boiled, desert noir and morality play, layered with simple humanity and the occasional lecture on life and love, this Mick Callahan novel thrives by thwarting convention to tell its well-paced story, and remaining true to its quirky characters.
--W.D. Gagliani, author of Savage Nights
Boring. DID not hold interest and lacked enough to continue reading. Only read approximately 25 pages. Maybe others may like but not for me.
A lot of typos, grammar errors and misspellings were distracting. Needs a proof reader. Took a long time for a short plot.
It left you wondering until the last page what would happened would read more of his books if he wrote more
I enjoyed the book but it did have a slow start and I kept putting it down. About two or three chapters in, it got my interest.
Makes me want to read more of Harry's books! The action just seems to accelerate all the way to the finish.
Trouble sticks like lint to Harry Shannon's Callahan, and this story, while not as taut as Memorial Day, certainly returns him to the same shabby territory. The plot's been well described here. The characters in Burning Man are not as full (or desperate), and the lateral progression of the plot never quite achieves the suspense you suspect is possible. But the character of Mick Callahan is the selling point of this book. Callahan is a bit more world-weary but (somewhat) more optimistic in the face of everything that's going on around him, and it's Callahan's character that carries the book. The 12-step jargon gets ladled on a little thickly, but his observations and the fragility of his soul as he steps forward to help are convincing and worth the price of admission. I look forward to Shannon's next novel with Mick Callahan and perhaps the author will work in some of his very fine horror chops (read Night of the Werewolf or the excellent short story collection Bad Seed). As for the carping about Shannon's use of the Burning Man setting--come on. These must be the same people who hated Hamlet for its depiction of Denmark.
Psychologist Mick Callahan has a knack for getting into trouble. A recovering alcoholic, womanizer and fighter (as a child his stepfather forced him to fight for money), he's now on the straight and narrow after barely escaping his last scrape with his life (the events of Shannon's previous novel, Memorial Day). In fact, things are finally looking up; he's got a pretty young girlfriend and a new hit radio talk show.
But when Callahan and his date are mysteriously assaulted in the parking lot by a huge tattooed man wearing a black mask, and his housekeeper's adopted son is kidnapped, it seems that trouble has once again found him. Things quickly get worse an old friend, drug addict and prostitute named Mary calls him with a plea for help, and he can't resist going after her.
The problem is, Mary has fallen in with a very bad group of people, and Callahan quickly finds himself swept up into a dangerous plot. Nothing is as it seems, and he must call in every favor and use every ounce of his strength and cunning to stay alive. Assault, prostitution and child pornography are par for the course as Shannon's taut thriller moves with lightning speed to a thrilling conclusion.
Shannon's prose is effortless as he propels the story along with the practiced ease of a master. There's enough intrigue and plot twists to keep any reader interested, but the real hook of this novel is Callahan himself.
Eye of the Burning Man is, in a word, astonishingly good. This novel is lean, dark and one hell of a lot of fun. Although it's not necessary to read Shannon's previous Callahan novel, Memorial Day, it's worth doing so, if only to see the character change and grow from one book to the next. Callahan is more than an echo of the hard-boiled sleuths from other standout detective series from Parker, Crais, MacDonald and Thompson; he is a fresh new voice, a flawed everyman hero who knows his own demons and his own limitations and is strong enough to overcome.
Put simply, Eye of the Burning Man stands with some of the very best noir mystery fiction around. Shannon deserves a much wider audience for this series, and one can only hope he will land a mass-market deal so that many more readers can become acquainted with Mick Callahan Highly recommended.
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