Review: Fast paced and brutal thrills!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 12, 2011
For those who have read any or all of The Dead Man series (and I urge you all to do so), you'll be familiar with the lead character Matthew Cahill; his ongoing quest to find the elusive Mr. Dark; and his preferred weapon in his fight against evil - his trusty axe. So when an entry in the series is called The Blood Mesa - and is set at an archeological site, certain expectations are bound to form in your mind. They did in mine. So my evaluation of this story is based purely on whether my expectations were met. And they were - and in an extremely entertaining fashion. At the risk of using lazy comparisons, this story is the b*st*rd child of an old Hammer Horror film (or maybe Raiders of the Lost Ark) and The Night of the Living Dead.This story is the literary equivalent to a drag strip race, with the title page being the starting line, and the first paragraph being the green light. From its opening, the story keeps accelerating until its brutal climax. That truly is its strength - it's rapid fire pace and its unflinching brutality (which you've got to expect from a series featuring an axe wielding hero).The Blood Mesa is 'bloody' good fun from go to whoa!