Reviewed by Dan

TITLE:    Sun and Shadow

SERIES:   Day and Knight #2

AUTHOR:     Dirk Greyson

PUBLISHER:  Dreamspinner Press

LENGTH:     213 Pages

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Dayton “Day” Ingram is recovering from an injury suffered in Mexico—and from his failed relationship with fellow Scorpion agent, Knight. While researching an old government document, Day realizes he might be holding the key to finding an artistic masterpiece lost since WWII.

But the Russians are looking for it too, and have a team in place in Eastern Europe hunting it down. Day and Knight are brought back together when they are charged with getting to the painting first.

Knight wants to leave Mexico and everything that happened there behind, and return to the life he had—except it wasn’t much of a life. When he’s partnered up with Day, keeping his distance proves to be challenging. But Day is as stubborn as Knight and isn’t willing to let him walk away.

Their assignment leads them through Germany and Austria with agents hot on their tail—agents willing to do whatever it takes to get to the masterpiece first. If Day and Knight can live long enough to find the painting, they might also discover something even more precious—each other.

REVIEW:

I’m always nervous when I pick up the second book in a series that I really like book one in. Will it live up to the memory of the first book? Well the answer in this case is it actually surpassed the memory of the first book in my opinion.

In Sun and Shadow, Mr. Greyson brings us back to his characters that we came to know in Day and Knight. It is shortly after the guys have returned from their last mission on the cruise ship where Day was shot, and he is still recovering from that injury.

A mystery, seventy-five years in the making will soon pull him in, and he will be thrown back together with Knight. During World War II, the Nazis seized much of the artwork in Europe. This book brings us into the story of one man’s attempt to hide art work before it was burned in Hitler’s Nero Decree. Although Mr. Greyson took some liberties with history and the Nero Decree in the fictionalization of the story, the Nero Decree was never actually carried out, so when you read of paintings being burned, just remember, it didn’t really happen. But it could have if subordinates had followed Hitler’s last orders.

In the story, the paintings were burned, and one man who was appalled at the coming waste, managed to hide 5 of the paintings away so that they were not destroyed. Now the Russians are looking for them, but they have an ulterior motive.

Enter Day and Knight. They are on the case to find the missing artwork before their Russian counterparts can get to it. Putin wants the artwork to wiggle his way back into good graces with Poland and other Eastern European countries, so that Russia can again begin to build its sphere of influence over the area. Can Day and Knight beat out the Russians in finding the artwork and foil Putin’s plans?

I really enjoyed this book. This series if very different from the author’s works under his more published name, and honestly…I like Dirk’s work a lot more than the cowboys, etc. on the other side. If you aren’t familiar with Dirk Greyson’s works, pick up Day and Knight and Sun and Shadow today. You won’t be sorry.

I highly recommend both books! Keep them coming Mr. Greyson!

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