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[close] Dawn of the shadow is the beginning of a new hero tale. Its the first book in a series exploring what happens when someone who never wanted to be a hero is suddenly thrown into a world of gangs, thugs, monsters, and demons. Peter Farrell only wanted to have the girl of his dreams not the power to change the world for good or for evil. But fate or chance changed all that when a relic of a time before man is found. Pete discovers a lab built by races that once controlled the universe. Inside the lab he discovers a machine that transforms him from ordinary to extraordinary granting him powers beyond all comprehension. Farrell then goes on a journey. Through this journey Pete finds how little he knew himself and how jealous he truly was of his friends. At the beginning of the journey as Pete is changed to something new, an old evil is awakened. Bocchio the creator of the machine. A man of cunning, intellegence and drive Bocchio waste little time in moving to continue his work to control the world using the criminal underworld to spread his technology in a effort to change everything. Bocchio main goal is using Pete, seeing a darkness in the boy he tries to bring a dark shadow out of Pete to burn all those that oppose him. Pete is pushed to his limits before seeing Bocchio for what he is and tries to stop him but not before someone dear is taken from him. Filled with rage for the loss and sadness for his role in not seeing Bocchio for what he was in time Pete decides to fight back. Taking the name Shadow he takes the fight back to Bocchio leading to a confrontation in the heart of Philadelphia. In the end Shadow becomes the protector of the city becoming the dark hero who leads those who become lost as he did in the night back to the light. Darkness rises...The Shadow falls...,Light remains