Showing Flight of the Shaman by Geoff Widders

But when I looked into the mirror I cried out and my heart was shaken. For I did not see myself, I saw the sneer and grimace of a devil."

The Child with the Mirror : Thus Spoke Zaruthustra
Friedrich Nietzsche


This book is about the length of one of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It can be read by anybody who likes a good story.

This extract describes the cover;-

Chacuti saw a runner come into view on the roadway, he was so fit the energy and power simply oozed out of him. As he bounded along a coloured, knotted quipu flapped wildly from his belt. She removed the pan pipes from her lips and began to shout to Panqui to move from his path but at that same instant something appeared directly in front of her which was so frightening and grotesque she was unable to move.

"Why doesn't she tell the little girl to get out the way?" asked Paddy. "Shift yerself!" he shouted.
"There's something stopping her, it's in that cloud!"

A small dark cloud, like a heavy puff of smoke from a damp fire seemed held in the air before Chacuti. They watched as the shape rapidly altered.

"What in the name of the Lord Almighty is that!"

The shape had formed itself into that of a man.
Davey was too terrified by the horrible image to be able to even think.

Evil eyes stared out from the black mass and fixed the girl, they pinned her into position and prevented her from moving. In the faintest of voices she begged, "Please..don't..hurt me."
"What's the matter Cuti, why have you stopped?" asked Panqui.

The runner was moving swiftly. He had blocked out all thoughts save that of covering distance, his body was in tune with the task, the distance was disappearing under his feet. He felt as though the Earth was moving and he remained still. This would be a run which would never be equalled, a run he would boast about. No thoughts clouded his concentration, until suddenly, a child was directly in front of him.
He swerved to avoid her.
His swerve caused him to lose balance. He could see the sheer drop looming nearer as he fought desperately to regain his control. Time seemed to have stopped as he shot off the roadway into space. No cry escaped his lips but his legs still pumped furiously, unable to understand that they no longer made contact with the ground.
Chacuti was at last freed from the hold of the devilish form before her, the evil creature smiled wickedly as it slowly turned its gaze upon the plummeting runner then swept downwards after him at an immense speed.