Shadows of the Dead

In this gripping thriller, the world‘s best tracker must hunt down two nearly untraceable killers before time runs out for their victims. Magnus "Steps" Craig, part of the FBI‘s elite Special Tracking Unit, is called in on a case that requires his unparalleled skills. A woman, abducted and found in the trunk of a car after a high-speed chase, reveals two crucial pieces of information: the man who kidnapped her is not the same as the man who left her in the woods, and she‘s not the first victim-she is number eight. Steps has a secret to his talent. He possesses a kind of synesthesia that allows him to see the ‘essence‘ of a person-what he calls ‘shine‘-on everything they‘ve touched. Brought in to track the driver through a dense forest after the blood hounds have lost his trail, Steps and his partner Jimmy find the driver laughing maniacally, babbling about souls, and hiding a pristinely maintained box of eight posed rats. Now, the Special Tracking Unit must chase two villains through both the real world and the dark web, tracking an enemy they can‘t see, as time runs out for the unknown victims in Spencer Kope‘s Shadows of the Dead.