Riviting to the end and then the reader finds themself pondering if they are "choosing" or falling in with the "shadows."

All of Benjamin Ridley's students listen intently to his lecture. But for Peter Hansen the professor's words ring so true that he experiences a clarity of thought bordering on epiphany. The grey areas that have pervaded his legal studies suddenly fade, and Peter recognizes the truth--an objective moral code exists. And with that revelation his eyes are opened to the fierce battle that surrounds him, which the unawakened mistake for random acts of crime, terror and other mayhem.

The conflict between good and evil has rarely been brought so close to home as it is in Chosen. Rather than demons or other boogeymen, D.M. Brown runs a chill up our spine by unveiling the evil that lurks around us everyday in places we least expect it. While the classic good vs. evil conflict is unmistakable, Chosen pushes the genre to a new level by weaving its theme together with a page-turning thriller and an intriguing story of personal journey. Stopping short of the supernatural and things that go bump in the night, the story convincingly makes evil our next door neighbor, the stranger sitting next to us on the bus, or even someone closer.

I particularly enjoyed the protagonist's early encounters with the strangers that now seek to do him harm. The description of those altercations is vivid and conveys the disorientation caused by suddenly being targeted by "Shadows" that Peter didn't know existed and who would have ignored him just a day earlier.

My only complaint about this book is that I wanted the story to keep going. But we can almost certainly expect another installment or even a series, which this concept would support nicely. Now that he is a Chosen, Peter Hansen's journey will undoubtedly require many novels (and possibly a film or two) to complete.