Wolf in Shadow, John Lambshead
Wolf in Shadow, John Lambshead
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Wolf in Shadow

Author: John Lambshead

Narrator: Zehra Jane Naqvi

Unabridged: 14 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/28/2020


Synopsis

Rhian, a girl from the Welsh valleys on the run from tragedy and herself, finds a new home in the modern East End of London, where the world's largest financial center spins a web of money and power from glistening towers of chrome and glass. Beneath the digital façade lurks the old East End where the layers of two thousand years of dramatic and violent history slide over one another like glaciers, spilling out in avalanches that warp the real world.

As bodies begin to litter the East End streets, The Commission dispatches its best enforcers to deal with the situation: Karla is not human, and Jameson left his humanity behind in pieces in Northern Ireland and Afghanistan. Rhian makes new friends, dangerous friends; and where Rhian goes, the wolf is always in her shadow, just a heartbeat away.

Among the bankers and traders of the East End walk demons in human form and who is to say which are the monsters? London is a magical bomb waiting to explode and somewhere a fuse is hissing.

About John Lambshead

John Lambshead is a retired senior scientific civil servant who has worked for the British Museum of Natural History, Southampton University, the University of California, and the Royal Society, with more than a hundred scientific articles to his name. He is also an experienced author and game designer, having written for Baen Books, Games Workshop, and Warlord Games, among others.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mara

Do you see the cover? Notice the trio? Guy on the right, girl on the left, a wolf front and in the background a misshapen London. Well, this cover is both true and false. :) My first impression was: wow, UF set in London. Great. Let's grab it. Thank you very much, Baen. My second impression was: ok, I'......more

Goodreads review by Alex

All Rhian wants is a place where she can live and work through the loss of James, the only man she’d ever found who believed in her. There are only a couple of things working against her. The Sidhe want to invade London, and her landlady is a witch. Oh yes, there is that turning into a wolf thing, t......more

Goodreads review by Barbara

A standard plot set in a standard world with standard, off-the-shelf characters and a cliche count that was off the scale. Still, it was competently written. It was also stuffed with pop culture references which I enjoyed, if only because I got most of them which made me feel pleasantly smug.......more

Goodreads review by Amev1

Would have given it 3 stars but there are a few self-hurt scenarios where it is presented in a positive manner and I found that disturbing/disappointing. It’s not to say self-hurting doesn’t occur and the people doing it don’t find pleasure. But, I think it’s important in a fantasy genre where young......more

Goodreads review by Juan

Two government agents, a man and a flighty vampire, investigate the paranormal. A young woman with werewolf like tendencies moves to London to escape her past. A vampire on the moral sidelines and a conspiracy of world destroying levels brings them together. This was fun as a thriller and it has an......more