Agent Bowers is used to tracking the country’s most dangerous killers, but now it looks like a killer is tracking him. When he realizes the murderer is using clues from an ancient manuscript as a blueprint for his crimes, Bowers faces a race against time to decipher who the next victim will be and to stop the final shocking murder–which he’s beginning to believe might be his own.

As I mentioned in the Rook’s review. Patrick Bowers stories read like a 24/CSI episode, the protagonist being a modern day Sherlock Holmes. As far as intelligent-fast-paced-crime-scene-murder-mystery-thrillers go, you can’t get much better than this.

Steven James is edgier than most Christian authors I’ve read… no profanity, no steamy scenes and no wishy/washy morals, but definitely a big dollop of violence, and gruesome murder descriptions, which is not everyone’s cup of tea, and quite frankly – after reading two of these books back to back… I’m over this genre, for quite some time (perhaps until mid 2010 when The Bishop is released), and I feel as though I’ve become too familiar with Steven James mystery formula. Time to read something completely different… like Bambi.

In conclusion, out of the three Patrick Bowers thrillers so far, I still rate The Pawn as the most superior story, then the Knight.

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