The Shadow
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1961. One crash. One hundred ninety-four dead. One man accused.
FAA investigator Derek Smith defends his own life before a Civil Aeronautics Board tribunal. Accused of sabotaging a Boeing 707 and causing one of the deadliest aviation disasters in American history, Derek is forced to relive the investigation that destroyed his career-and uncover the truth buried beneath official reports, missing testimony, and impossible coincidences.
As the inquiry unfolds, the line between memory and obsession begins to blur. A mysterious woman who resembles his long-dead fiancée, a volatile partner, and a relentless prosecutor all draw Derek deeper into a conspiracy reaching far beyond a single crash. Every answer uncovers another secret, and every revelation casts a longer shadow.
Set against the dawn of the jet age in the Mile High City of Denver, The Shadow is a literary mystery that blends psychological suspense, noir atmosphere, and historical aviation into a story of guilt, loss, and the search for the light of truth in the darkness of the world.
Daniel Coleman
Daniel Coleman is an English professor at McMaster University who is grateful to live in the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe in Hamilton, Ontario. He studies and writes about Canadian Literature, whiteness, the literatures of Indigeneity and diaspora, the cultural politics of reading, and wampum, the form of literacy-ceremony-communication-law that was invented by the people who inhabited the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence-Hudson River Watershed before Europeans arrived on Turtle Island. His books include Masculine Migrations (1998), The Scent of Eucalyptus (2003), White Civility (2006, winner of the Raymond Klibansky Prize), In Bed with the Word (2009) and Yardwork: A Biography of an Urban Place (2017, shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize).
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