Complex and compelling, gory, sick and heartrending...first rate
Bookseller
SHADOW MAN grabs you by the throat and yanks you along for a hell of a scary ride. A spellbinding read from first page to last.
Faye Kellerman
Coldly, stunningly brilliant. Move over Thomas Harris, Mcfadyen has brought a new game to town.
Lisa Gardner on SHADOW MAN
Disturbing ... a promising debut for Mcfadyen, who combines many conventions of the genre but with far more exquisite, intricate results than the norm . . . Pack[s] a visceral punch
Publishers Weekly
As humane as it is violent...Barrett's anger, pain and determination infuse the novel with a raw passion...it will be among the best crime fiction you will read this year
Washington Post on SHADOW MAN
Terrifically good, terrifically scary . . . very hard to put down
San Francisco Chronicle on SHADOW MAN
'An excellent read...Mcfadyen manages to mislead the reader down many a wrong path and keep them guessing until the very last minute...an explosive twist to the end'
crimesquad.com
SHADOW MAN is one of the most powerful and authentic portrayals of a serial killer and the people who hunt them I have ever read. It kept me riveted right to the last page. Cody Mcfadyen is the real thing.
John Douglas, author of the #1 bestseller MINDHUNTER: Inside the F.B.I.'s Serial Crime Unit
A truly talented author
The Sunday Times, Australia
The wildest night ride I have been on for quite a while...By the time you finish reading this book you'll be running on adrenalin you never knew you had. If you're sick of books about serial killers, SHADOW MAN is the cure. Mcfadyen's writing and characterization run long, deep and true. And, by the way, he is beyond scary. Not to be missed
Bookreporter.com
Authentic...handled well with some unexpected twists and turns. Mcfadyen has drawn Barrett and her fellow FBI members tenderly and intricately
Shots Magazine on SHADOW MAN
I'm still reeling after reading this high-octane, heart-pumping FBI thriller...Brilliant. But not for the squeamish




Good Reading, Australia
This is one of the best serial killer novels that I've read. It's up there with the early Patricia Cornwell novels, Primal Fear and The Silence of the Lambs - a stunning first novel
Manly Daily
Mcfadyen has managed to deliver something fresh. His style of narration sucks the reader in from the first sentence and the story has enough plot twists to keep you intrigued to the last page. A superb debut novel, hopefully a sign of things to come from a truly talented author. In a word: chilling
Herald Sun, Australia
If you like to be scared so witless you hold your breath for pages at a time, SHADOW MAN won't disappoint
New Idea, Australia
Gripping from the first page to the last. The twists and turns in this thriller keep you in suspense until the last page
New Books Magazine