The Mage of Bed-Stuy

by Chris Barshick, Stacy Barshick (Illustrator)

Overview

Max Bryant is happy working in the New York State Crime lab after serving years as one of NYPD's finest, a lieutenant in the 79th Precinct. But when his former partner, Jim Yang is killed under mysterious circumstances, Max leaves that peaceful life and becomes hell-bent on solving the crime and helping Jim's widow come to grips with her loss.

A typical crime thriller, ... think again. Max is also an ancient Mage who's been at the center of some of history's greatest events. From medieval France to ancient Rome, to the detonation of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, New Mexico, Max has honed his detective skills while trying to hide his magical identity. Now on the trail of a green-haired vixen who's searching for a 13000-year-old artifact with unlimited magical power, Max will stop at nothing to find Jim's killer.

With magical twists and turns that take Max across the five boroughs of New York, the Mage of Bed-Stuy will see this former cop try to bring a killer to justice, while learning the truth about his brother and sister sorcerers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798990783904
Publisher:	Lead-to-Gold Publishing LLC
Publication date:	05/15/2024
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.76(d)

About the Author

Christopher Barshick, Ph.D. is a passionate writer, embarking upon his first novel in the fantasy genre. For nine months out of the year, he's a Chemistry Professor at a small college in Southwestern Virginia where he teaches General Chemistry and Biochemistry Lab to the next generation of scientists and engineers. The Mage of Bed-Stuy was a summer project written while on break. During his 30-year career in industry, he's published extensively in the peer-reviewed scientific literature and has edited a book on inorganic mass spectrometry (ISBN-10:0824702433), his area of expertise. Growing up, Dr. Chris was influenced by such literary icons as Michael Crichton, Tom Clancy, and Douglas Adams. Today, he reads fantasy novels from authors like, V.E. Schwab, Genevieve Cogman, and P. Djèlí Clark. He also enjoys reading graphic novels from DC Comics and frequently attends Comic-Cons.