A
Beast Within (The Dead
Man #7)
by
James Daniels
created
by Lee Goldberg & William Rabkin
Adventures
in Television (2012)
ASIN
B005SZXJI2
I'm finally getting myself caught up in
the Goldberg/Rabkin creation, The Dead Man. It's coming up on
a year since I read the sixth episode in the adventures of Matt
Cahill, the man who came back from the dead after being frozen under
an avalanche. Just too many books on my review pile, and this series
kind of fell to the wayside.
In the seventh installment, A Beast
Within, Matt is in Michigan to find an author he hopes holds the
key to better understanding his terrible gift. Seeing the evil
lurking in people physically depicted on their flesh after they've
been corrupted by Matt's nemesis, Mr. Dark, is hardly something to be
considered a gift, but he's made good use of it so far in his
adventures. But if there's a way to put a stop to it all, it's worth
looking into. What Matt finds, however, is a white-supremacist
militia set to implode--and Matt's caught right in the middle.
Turns out the leader of this Aryan
crackpot parade is the same guy Matt's been looking for, but he had
no idea how far into crazytown the guy had gone. And things have come
to a boil with the guy's Russian mail-order bride serving as the
catalyst for a revolt among his followers.
Out of all the Dead Man books I've
read so far, this one veered from the main narrative the most. Once
inside the compound and finding out he's been on a wild goose chase
for answers, Matt breaks out his trusty ax and literally fends off
the barbarians at the gates. The Dead Man series has developed
its own kind of mythos through each novella, but this one really
struck its own chord with creepy shadows, a mythical Russian bear,
and even a bit of the Insane Clown Posse.
The book certainly has exciting moments,
but I wound up underwhelmed, and even a little disappointed by it. It
didn't propel the over-arching storyline as much as I had hoped, and
the introduction of new supernatural elements felt like they went
against the grain of what's already been established. Maybe as I read
the next two novellas in the series, pieces of this one will become
clearer, but for now I'm just glad Matt Cahill is getting the heck
out of Michigan.
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