Apex Review Of The Lost Prophet (James B. McPike)

Feb. 12, 2016 - PRLog -- The Lost Prophet

James B. McPike

ISBN: 9781508420729

Reviewed By Mariah Smitala

Official Apex Reviews Rating:   5 Stars

James B McPike’s novel The Lost Prophet follows Israeli investigator Vince Ramsey as he takes on a new evil, Dmitri Markovich. The cast of characters are so well written that they feel like old friends. Though descriptions of the characters were a bit lacking, their actions and thoughts were so well portrayed that the mental picture of each character was vivid enough without heavy descriptions. While McPike’s heroes are undoubtedly written to perfection, the villains are the most impressive. Markovich comes off as terrifying and devious, yet surprisingly eloquent, and his female assistant Natalya is evil to the core and makes your skin crawl whenever she appears on a page.

Although The Lost Prophet isn’t McPike’s first Ramsey novel, it never felt like a sequel, in which it is necessary to read the other books in the series first. Any background information necessary for the story was thoroughly explained, and there were only two or three occasions where the story from a different novel was mentioned. In these few cases it did not feel like knowing the whole story was necessary to understand what was happening better. If anything, they only made me want to read any other Vince Ramsey novels I can get my hands on. The Lost Prophet was an exciting novel in a fairly new setting, and Vince Ramsey is a new take on the protagonist in detective fiction that we all know and love.