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Dead Man (Black Magic Outlaw Book 1) Kindle Edition

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My name is Cisco Suarez, but I've been called a lot of things. Wizard, hit man, black magic outlaw. I guess one day I finally went too far because someone left me for dead in a dumpster.

That should've been it for me. End of story. But I'm not like most people. Compelled by equal doses of voodoo and sheer grit, I came back... and I want answers.

Which might explain the zombie pit bull sniffing after me. And the automatic weapons. But I'm too stubborn to back down. I'll go through a voodoo gang, a shape-shifting trickster, and a bloodthirsty vampire if it gets me out of this.

And maybe I'll get a little more than that too. My old life back. A cleared name. A city to protect from the kinds of monsters who did this to me.

Not too shabby for a dead man.

If you like Jim Butcher, Shayne Silvers, Steve McHugh, or John Conroe, then you are going to love Domino Finn's contribution to the smart-talking MC that's perpetually stuck between a rock and a hard place.

What Kindle readers are saying:

⚡⚡ "Black Magic Outlaw is a standout in a world of lookalikes." ⚡⚡

⚡⚡ "Cisco is a tattooed, necromancing, shadow-morphing, 'Live and Let Die' meets Jack Reacher kind of guy... only better." ⚡⚡

⚡⚡ "Urban fantasy just went up a notch." ⚡⚡

⚡⚡ "The magic is far more imaginative than anything I have read since Sanderson." ⚡⚡

⚡⚡ "A quantum leap in storytelling." ⚡⚡

⚡⚡ "Cisco is the kind of character you can't help cheering for, with a mix of boyish charm, a dash of arrogance, but always the bighearted underdog." ⚡⚡

⚡⚡ "Action junkies will love this series." ⚡⚡

⚡⚡ "Enough dead bodies, zombies, and wizards to fill a small stadium." ⚡⚡

⚡⚡ "Jason Bourne meets urban fantasy. Good pace, engaging lead, and fresh mythology. Loved it." ⚡⚡

⚡⚡ "What a great path of destruction Cisco leaves..." ⚡⚡

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"If you like Jim Butcher (Harry Dresden), Ilona Andrews (Kate Daniels), Larry Correia (Monster Hunter International), and Elliot James (Pax Arcana) then you are going to love Domino Finn's contribution to the smart-talking MC that's perpetually stuck between a rock and a hard place."

"More magic, twists, turns, and surprises than you can shake a stick at. Urban fantasy just went up a notch."

"Black Magic Outlaw is a standout in a world of lookalikes."

"The magic is far more imaginative than anything I have read since Sanderson."

"A quantum leap in storytelling."

"Cisco is the kind of character you can't help cheering for, with a mix of boyish charm, a dash of arrogance, but always the bighearted underdog."

"Enough dead bodies, zombies, and wizards to fill a small stadium."

"Action junkies will love this series."

"A fun magic system, great atmosphere and setting, and a heroic yet tarnished protagonist who finds some pretty creative ways to defeat his enemies."

"Cisco is a tattooed, necromancing, shadow-morphing, 'Live and Let Die' meets Jack Reacher kind of guy... only better."

"Gritty. Raw. Finn spices his narrative with humor and floods it with tension. I just love the noir style."

"Despite being a hard-charger with some seriously cool black-magic chops, Cisco is fun to hang out with."

"Jason Bourne meets urban fantasy. Good pace, engaging lead, and fresh mythology. Loved it."

"What a great path of destruction Cisco leaves."

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B019ROIX8U
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Blood & Treasure; 1st edition (December 23, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 23, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3779 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 324 pages

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Domino Finn is an award-winning game industry veteran, a media rebel, and a grizzled author of urban fantasy and litRPG. His stories are equal parts spit, beer, and blood, and are notable for treating weighty issues with a supernatural veneer. If Domino has one rallying cry for the world, it's that fantasy is serious business.

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Very entertaining.

Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2024

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Very good right from the start . no boring fillers. Narrater is the best.Perfect for this series. The writer does a great job. Gets right to the point , does not go on and on and on about boring stuff. I highly recommend

Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2016

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This is an urban fantasy. No sex, plenty of death, blood and gore. Voodoo ritual, gang violence and black magic. There is a satisfying ending, but it took a lot of blood and tears to get there. Seriously.

Cisco is a typical 24 year old kid/man. He thinks he knows everything. Playing with black magic is a game . . . until it isn’t. Someone or someones are trying to kill him. He is at times arrogant, self pitying and cold blooded. He’s an assassin albeit involuntarily.

This story has more twists and turns to it than the back roads of the Missouri Ozarks. I could never tell if Cisco’s friends were really his friends or if they were an enemy in disguise. The same with his enemies. You know the saying: enemy of my enemy is my friend . . . for now.

I listened to the audio and read the book. I liked both, but I did enjoy reading better than listening. The narrator was fine, but he didn’t differentiate much between characters. It won’t stop me from trying another audio of his, though.

Will I listen or read to book #2? Hell, yes. I enjoyed Mr. Finn’s writing and the characters were very colorful and animated (heehee . . . see what I did there? No? Read the book. You’ll get it.). I am not all that keen on Cisco’s attitude, but since this is the first book, there always needs to be room for growth. I have faith that Cisco will grow up and take more responsibility for his actions. I believe that is going to be true because of the last few words in the book: “With a checkered past and a decade of bad deeds, I had a lot to atone for.” I am looking forward to #2. Bring it on.

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Edwin Stephens

Excellent story filled with all types of magic and magical creatures!

Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2017

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First, I want to say that I was originally drawn to this book not just by the interesting blurb, but also by the intriguing cover art. As Domino Finn says in the acknowledgments, “Judge my books by his covers.” The “he” is James T. Egan of BookFly. I’ve been burned in the past, suckered by great cover art, only to realize that the writing was atrocious, but that is certainly not the case here. Dead Man was non-stop action and well written (and edited) from the first page to the last.

The main character is a back-from-the-dead man who refers to himself in the third person. He’s Francisco Suarez to his family, Cisco to everyone else. He is the kind of character you can’t help cheering for, with a mix of boyish charm, a dash of arrogance, but always the bighearted underdog.

Obviously, Cisco my favorite character, but if I had to choose a close second, it would be Kasper, a tattoo parlor owner. We only meet him once, but as a Norwegian biker whose Norse runes tattoos are enchanted, I’d love to pick his brain. And if he was in a stupor, unable to chat, I’d just admire the medieval implements and Viking helmet with horns, among other things, that adorn the walls of his shop.

This book is filled with all types of magic and magical creatures from several cultures, so there is never a dull moment, even when Cisco casts a spell, and waits for earthworms to make their way deep into the soil of a cemetery.

I love that this book wraps up the mysteries Cisco is trying to solve, but also leaves room for more action and mysteries. No doubt Cisco will get himself in a tight spot again, and I can’t wait to read Shadow Play, the second book in the Black Magic Outlaw series. This is an excellent story, and I recommend it to all fans of dark fantasy, magic, and paranormal.

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JohnGuad

Interesting concept, haphazard execution ...

Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2016

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I liked the theme, the core concept of this story, but too many details just didn't gel for me. The main character is a warlock / brujo in Miami who wakes up in a dumpster after having been 'dead' for years. At first he doesn't know he was dead, and doesn't know it's been years ... I found this part to be really well conceived ... imagine pulling a Rip Van Winkle, you wake up and as far as you know it's just the next morning but in reality years have gone by ... talk about culture shock! Think of all the technology and things you see on a daily basis, and how they have changed in the past ten or 15 years ... now imagine that change happening overnight. Yikes!

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But we quickly encounter the first of several key details that really didn't pass my own personal "sniff test" ... fairly early in the book we find out he wasn't ever actually dead, rather he was being mind-controlled by an evil warlock / voodoo guy for the past XX years. And even after he (and we) finds out he did not ever actually die, he continues to refer to his 'death', his 'murder', or his 'being dead for XX years'. That's really annoying. Basically he keeps saying "I have to avenge myself on the people who killed me even though they didn't actually kill me and I wasn't actually dead, and all the other murders I want to avenge were mostly carried out by me while I wasn't dead" ... made my brain hurt.

There's a handful of other little annoyances at places in the story, basically inconsistent or unrealistic behavior by various characters ... I tried to keep the disbelief in suspension, but every little inconsistency was a stumbling block to my engagement with the story. Some people don't fret the details, and if that's you, then have at it and I hope you enjoy this book more than I did.

In general I would advise tentative readers to buy a used copy of this first book, and if you find you do enjoy it then go ahead and buy the rest of the series new so as to support the author.

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Mara Nightingale

Definitely unexpected

Reviewed in Canada on January 1, 2019

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This book started at a run and just kept going until the last page. I can't wait to see what happens in book 2. The twists in the story kept me guessing the whole time.

Rosemary Hughes

How do you develop such a physic??

Reviewed in Australia on November 21, 2016

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Cisco Suarez in the first couple of chapters comes across as arrogant. Perhaps the last 10 years may have left him so, although I believe it was his attitude before those 10 years.
Waking up in a dumpster with a physic that he was amazed to have, may have been a hint that it wasn't booze that was causing him the headaches. This story is tide to magical power, and greed. Cisco finds himself in all sorts of problems, until he can find what had happened to him in those past 10 years.
I won't go further with the story line, other than to say it kept me interested from cover to cover.
I am looking forward to reading the next book in the series.
I voluntarily submitted this review after reading an advanced copy of this book.

Tejas Shirodkar

Great new series by Finn!

Reviewed in India on June 19, 2016

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If you are a fan of the Dresden Files and waiting for more such fantasy universe then the black magic outlaw is an interesting series. Just started with the series and finished the first book, buying the next one right after I finish this!

Florian

gute Unterhaltung

Reviewed in Germany on March 25, 2016

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gute Unterhaltung mit einigen cleveren Ideen.
Keine wirklich neue Storyline, aber sehr konsequent und intelligent umgesetzt.
Eine sehr kurzweilige Unterhaltung

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DEP

Good book

Reviewed in Canada on February 5, 2017

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Good book. I enjoyed the book. Interesting characters. Dead, alive, who is actually dead. Original concept of magic, zombies, voodoo and more.

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