Jonathon King, award-winning author of acclaimed novels The Blue Edge of Midnight and A Visible Darkness, returns with an exciting new thriller featuring ex-cop Max Freeman.

King writes with lean and supple prose that captures the region in vivid and ominous detail ... Shadow Men excavates new and fertile terrain in Florida thriller fiction, and finds nuggets of pure gold.

It begins with an 80-year-old mystery.Three men - a father and his two sons - vanished without trace while working as labourers on a dangerous project to build the first road through the Florida Everglades. Now, years later, a series of letters is discovered by a descendent of these men. Driven by the need to know what happened to these lost members of his family, he starts asking questions - and is quickly stonewalled. With nowhere else to turn, he enlists the help of former Philadelphia police officer, Max Freeman.

Living in his isolated shack on an ancient river in the Glades, Max starts his investigation into the fate of these men.The search for the truth quickly turns violent and Max finds he has more to worry about than just 80-year-old ghosts. For there are powerful interests that want to make certain that the shadows of the past remain undisturbed,including some that will kill to ensure that they do. Combining powerful storytelling and rich characters, Shadow Men firmly establishes Jonathon King as a new master of modern crime fiction.

Jonathon King is the author of A Visible Darkness and The Blue Edge of Midnight, a Los Angeles Times bestseller. A journalist for over twenty years, he has covered crime and criminal courts and is now a national award-winning news feature writer for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.