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Shaun Patrick #1
RED RABBIT
DC Detective Shaun Patrick is in a cat and mouse game with a mastermind who is using ancient Taoist sorcery to raise the dead and send them out to kill. Pressured by the FBI and his own department and targeted by the killer, Shaun is in a race against time to solve the murder of his best friend, save his girlfriend and stop a supernatural force that will soon make the nation's capital a wasteland.
287 pages, Paperback
First published November 8, 2016
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About the author
Toby Tate
12 books68 followersToby's stories have been praised by Midwest Book Review, Library Journal and Cemetery Dance as well as by New York Times bestselling authors Steve Berry, Douglas Preston, Jonathan Maberry and Steve Alten. He has been featured in The Big Thrill magazine and on Internet radio, blogs and newspapers.
Inexplicably drawn to all things dark and macabre, at about the age of twelve he began penning short stories and publishing his own movie monster magazine.
An Air Force brat who never lived in one place more than two years, after high school Toby did an eight-year stint in the U.S. Navy and ended up on the east coast. He has since worked as a cab driver, a pizza delivery man, a phone solicitor, a shipyard technician, a government contractor, a retail music salesman, a bookseller, a cell phone salesman and a recording studio engineer.
Toby later earned a B.A. in English and became a full-time graphic designer and newspaper reporter, publishing hundreds of stories with the Associated Press and his local paper. He has since been published in The Pedestal Magazine, Voluted Tales magazine, Famous Monsters of Filmland, Scary Monsters Magazine, and websites like eHow.com.
Owing to the inspiration of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury and Stephen King, Toby became an author of what he likes to call "high-octane sci-fi, fantasy and horror" and has published several books. He is currently producing his first movie, SKINWALKERS, for which he wrote the screenplay.
Toby is also a songwriter and musician and lives with his family near the Great Dismal Swamp in northeastern North Carolina.
Inexplicably drawn to all things dark and macabre, at about the age of twelve he began penning short stories and publishing his own movie monster magazine.
An Air Force brat who never lived in one place more than two years, after high school Toby did an eight-year stint in the U.S. Navy and ended up on the east coast. He has since worked as a cab driver, a pizza delivery man, a phone solicitor, a shipyard technician, a government contractor, a retail music salesman, a bookseller, a cell phone salesman and a recording studio engineer.
Toby later earned a B.A. in English and became a full-time graphic designer and newspaper reporter, publishing hundreds of stories with the Associated Press and his local paper. He has since been published in The Pedestal Magazine, Voluted Tales magazine, Famous Monsters of Filmland, Scary Monsters Magazine, and websites like eHow.com.
Owing to the inspiration of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury and Stephen King, Toby became an author of what he likes to call "high-octane sci-fi, fantasy and horror" and has published several books. He is currently producing his first movie, SKINWALKERS, for which he wrote the screenplay.
Toby is also a songwriter and musician and lives with his family near the Great Dismal Swamp in northeastern North Carolina.
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November 23, 2016
An absolute page turner!! This had the feel of the X-Files, meets CSI, meets a butt kicking homicide cop, and it has quite an unexpected ending. Totally looking forward to the second installment.
March 11, 2017
Shaun Patrick is a newly promoted to Detective police officer in Washington D.C. with a history of dealing with the occult. Not all of his fellows take him seriously and others are jealous of his success.
Everything changes for Shaun when his closest friend, a grocery store clerk, is murdered in what appears to be a Taoist sorcery-themed occult murder. Taking up with the dead man's sister, Lucy, against regulations--Shaun Patrick soon finds himself investigating an ever-growing series of vigilante murders that threatens to wipe out the Chinese gangs in Washington D.C. The only clues Shaun has are provided for him by an enigmatic old man and his own investigations into a web of corruption, deceit, and black sorcery.
Shaun is an enjoyable main protagonist with it clear that he's very intelligent but emotional and prone to making hotheaded decisions based on emotion. He's also not yet well-equipped enough to play the behind-the-scenes politics which would allow him to protect his associates from those higher-up on the food chain. Still, he's credulous but not overwhelmed by the supernatural so he's able to do a lot better in getting support than say, Fox Mulder, on the X-Files.
I have to say Toby Tate did an impressive job of keeping the magic "grounded" so you often wondered if this was going to have a Scooby Doo-esque ending of revealing all of the magic we've seen is actually the result of a clever murderer and serial killer. Shaun is not exactly the best detective as he really gets rings run around him by the perpetrator right up until the end but that's the mark of a good villain.
I enjoyed Shaun's partner, DeLorean, most of the characters and enjoyed how the two played off against one another. I think his relationship with Lucy wasn't really all that great as she seemed a somewhat flat character despite her unexpected skills at computer hacking. Secondary villain Anderson also introduced a very mundane threat of bureaucracy and corruption in a story which might have otherwise been just zombies and wizards.
Red Rabbit's characters were vivid, the crimes graphic, and the twists unexpected. I think if you love police procedures and occult stories then you'll really like this.
Everything changes for Shaun when his closest friend, a grocery store clerk, is murdered in what appears to be a Taoist sorcery-themed occult murder. Taking up with the dead man's sister, Lucy, against regulations--Shaun Patrick soon finds himself investigating an ever-growing series of vigilante murders that threatens to wipe out the Chinese gangs in Washington D.C. The only clues Shaun has are provided for him by an enigmatic old man and his own investigations into a web of corruption, deceit, and black sorcery.
Shaun is an enjoyable main protagonist with it clear that he's very intelligent but emotional and prone to making hotheaded decisions based on emotion. He's also not yet well-equipped enough to play the behind-the-scenes politics which would allow him to protect his associates from those higher-up on the food chain. Still, he's credulous but not overwhelmed by the supernatural so he's able to do a lot better in getting support than say, Fox Mulder, on the X-Files.
I have to say Toby Tate did an impressive job of keeping the magic "grounded" so you often wondered if this was going to have a Scooby Doo-esque ending of revealing all of the magic we've seen is actually the result of a clever murderer and serial killer. Shaun is not exactly the best detective as he really gets rings run around him by the perpetrator right up until the end but that's the mark of a good villain.
I enjoyed Shaun's partner, DeLorean, most of the characters and enjoyed how the two played off against one another. I think his relationship with Lucy wasn't really all that great as she seemed a somewhat flat character despite her unexpected skills at computer hacking. Secondary villain Anderson also introduced a very mundane threat of bureaucracy and corruption in a story which might have otherwise been just zombies and wizards.
Red Rabbit's characters were vivid, the crimes graphic, and the twists unexpected. I think if you love police procedures and occult stories then you'll really like this.
November 23, 2016
Toby Tate at his finest.
Someone or something is killing gang members in D.C. Lead detective Shaun Patrick wants to who. Only member of the occult division of the Police Department, he will stop at nothing to find out what is going on.
Join him as he races all over town trying to solve the case!
Full of the occult, murder, suspense, heart racing action and even a little bit of romance.
Brilliant!! A MUST read book.
A+ Mr. Tate.
Someone or something is killing gang members in D.C. Lead detective Shaun Patrick wants to who. Only member of the occult division of the Police Department, he will stop at nothing to find out what is going on.
Join him as he races all over town trying to solve the case!
Full of the occult, murder, suspense, heart racing action and even a little bit of romance.
Brilliant!! A MUST read book.
A+ Mr. Tate.
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