Shadow Wolves is a work of fiction in the genres of action and adventure and was penned by author Jake Kaminski. A modern tale with cross-cultural references and plenty of intense, suspenseful moments, this novel focuses on Ethan Crowe, a Lakota Sioux tracker and former Intelligence Agency worker. Crowe is persuaded back into the game by the presence of powerful drug lords and their cartels, hidden away in the mountains and raising havoc on both sides of the Mexico/US border. What results is the formation of an elite team with some of the best and brightest Native Americans with remarkable skills and powerful souls: The Shadow Wolves.

Author Jake Kaminski has created a tale that is sure to please readers of the action and thriller genres, but it will also surprise them for its many new and unique qualities. Where Native American characters can sometimes be represented as token or gimmick, Kaminski takes pride in realizing fully formed human beings for The Shadow Wolves team, celebrating their heritage and grounding them deeply within it. I also loved the Aztec influences on the Zeta cartel and found that this extra layer of character development brought me much closer to the people involved in the action, and therefore more emotionally involved in the tension and danger which surrounded them. This made for a layered and deep reading experience with chapters that you didn’t want to end. Overall, I would highly recommend Shadow Wolves to fans of action, crime and suspense fiction everywhere.

In Shadow Wolves by Jake Kaminski, Native Americans of different tribes become very specialized soldiers for the American army. The book follows their very dangerous lives as they use their unique instincts and skills as trackers in the army and later for various other intelligence and defense organizations. The story spans the years of the war in Bosnia through present-day border patrol and drug wars on a reservation in southern Arizona where an all-native American agency is formed and headed by the main character in the book, Ethan Crowe. A Lakota Sioux, Ethan had been forced to go to white schools in childhood and he joins the American army. He lives with one foot in each culture, learning to live in white society while never losing his Lakota identity. While there is resistance to all Native American Shadow Wolves, the members’ warrior skills and knowledge of the desert lands of the reservation help the men and women succeed above and beyond others.

Jake Kaminski has written an exciting, engaging and significant narrative in his book, Shadow Wolves. The cultural background of the characters is explored and described so that the events, losses, and successes are felt and understood by the reader. Learning about the cultures involved and seeing the strengths and difficulties of cultural differences make the book fascinating as well as extremely thrilling. The Shadow Wolves fight an exhaustive battle against the Zeta Cartel that has been smuggling drugs and women across the Mexico-Arizona border. Ethan Crowe needs every skill he has ever learned to get through it.