Reportedly, Zemba is one of Walter B. Gibson’s favorite Shadow stories, and it is easy to see why: It takes place in Paris, allowing Gibson an exotic locale in which to set his adventure; it features a slew of red herrings and double identities; there is plenty of intense gunfights; and the ending, in which all is revealed, is a master stroke of deception worthy of Gibson, a veteran illusionist himself.
It is an entertaining and ultimately very clever mystery, but it is also slightly marred by numerous slow patches, a central villain that is not very interesting, and a plot that is almost dizzyingly complex.
All in all, an entertaining if flawed Shadow story, worth reading for the ending alone.
Text © Ahmed Khalifa. 2020.
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