From New York Times bestselling author David Mack comes a visionary World War II-era adventure. The Midnight Front is the epic first novel in the Dark Arts series.
On the eve of World War Two, Nazi sorcerers come gunning for Cade but kill his family instead. His one path of vengeance is to become an apprentice of The Midnight Front—the Allies' top-secret magickal warfare program—and become a sorcerer himself.
Unsure who will kill him first—his allies, his enemies, or the demons he has to use to wield magick—Cade fights his way through occupied Europe and enemy lines. But he learns too late the true price of revenge will be more terrible than just the loss of his soul—and there's no task harder than doing good with a power born of ultimate evil.
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- ISBN: 9781466890848
- File size: 7535 KB
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- ISBN: 9781466890848
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- English
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November 20, 2017
Mack (author of numerous Star Trek tie-in novels) has created a well-researched fantasy version of World War II, but he’s far too blithe in his handling of real-world atrocities. The battlefields of the Eastern and Western Fronts are joined by the titular Midnight Front in a war of demon-harnessing mages called karcists. Cade Martin is an American of secret magical heritage. After his parents are murdered by an Axis-controlled demon, he’s taken in by 357-year-old karcist Adair MacRae and his team of adepts. Cade masters his powers in record time to fight the megalomaniacal German karcist Kein Engel (literally “No Angel”) and his diabolical network. Along the way, Cade and his compatriots witness the worst atrocities of the war. Mack is a skilled storyteller with a knack for vivid and visceral action and violence. Many readers will be discomfited by his use of Babi Yar, Auschwitz, and Dresden as backdrops to the wizards’ war; these ghastly events chiefly provide a justification for willingly entering into a pact with a demon for a greater good. Most of the victims (who include children and infants) remain faceless bodies on which horrors are perpetrated to play with the reader’s emotions and move the plot. Though a diverse cast supports the entirely standard straight white male hero, this well-written pulp fiction falls short of its aims.
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