FBI agent Sidney Shaw (female) becomes the handler of mysterious prisoner John Smoke, a maveric bounty hunter. In each book they are sent against a different type of fiendish shape shifter.

They are quite entertaining books, and I certainly wanted to continue reading, but the writing is pretty raw. In the early stages it leans too much on conveying information by conversation between the characters, rather than by narrative, and it seemed a long time before there was much in the way of character development. Gun battles include lots of 'blat! blat!' and 'blam! blam!', or even 'blam! blam! blam! blam! blam! blam! click!' Very “comic book”.

It's a quick, light read, but it's no competition for Jim Butcher's Dresden Files. ( )