Egan (Shadow Recon Book 3)
Shadow Recon • Book 3
by Dale Mayer
Why You'll Love This
Someone at the arctic training camp is still missing — and the body count keeps climbing before anyone agrees on who to trust.
- Great if you want: military sci-fi with tight suspense and a remote, claustrophobic setting
- The experience: fast-moving and tense — the isolation keeps pressure steadily building
- The writing: Mayer layers personal betrayal into action plots without slowing the pace
- Skip if: you haven't read the earlier books — threads carry over heavily
About This Book
In the frozen isolation of an arctic training camp, something is deeply wrong—and Egan can feel it. Bodies keep turning up, a soldier remains missing, and the relentless tundra offers no answers. For Berry, what started as an adventure alongside her sister has become something far more unsettling, forcing her to question people she thought she knew and loyalties she assumed were solid. Dale Mayer builds the tension here not just through external danger but through the psychological weight of confinement, distrust, and the creeping realization that threats can come from the inside as much as the outside.
Mayer's Shadow Recon series has always balanced action with character depth, and this third installment sharpens that balance considerably. The arctic setting does real narrative work—the cold and the isolation aren't just backdrop, they press down on every interaction and decision. The pacing moves with purpose, alternating between Egan's hardened competence and Berry's more vulnerable perspective in a way that keeps the story grounded in human stakes. Readers who enjoy slow-burn tension wrapped around fast-moving plots will find this installment particularly satisfying.