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The reader might find themselves asking questions like “Who is the Painted Man, really?”.

Once this challenge is met then The Desert Spear really begins to pack a punch. That makes it easy to remove the young Jardir from the character we’ve met already in the Painted Man who often uses another name. We’ve got the fact that the desert people have a naming convention that isn’t Western. Some of this is due to a whiff of smoke and some small mirrors. Brett actually manages to make this work. You see Jardir already revealed his cards and to go back to view him as an underdog is a challenge.Īmazingly, Peter V. The real challenge with starting with Jardir is this the audience doesn’t like him. If the book wasn’t such a page turner and if I’d therefore read it over a longer period of time there would have been the risk of getting lost but even then my gut feeling is that Brett’s skill would have saved the day. The result is that we nearly double the number of characters we’re following by the end of The Desert Spear. In this, the second, we roll back the years to follow Jardir as a boy and as he starts his incredibly harsh training.īrett doesn’t abandon the trio of characters from The Painted Man either. Jardir is a significant character already in the first book. The big leap of faith to take with The Desert Spear is that it doesn’t lead with The Painted Man himself. I don’t know if Brett wrote The Desert Spear in the same way, I doubt it, but the good news is that the writing style remains. That had a profound influence on his writing the Painted Man is perfectly written with tight, punchy and yet highly descriptive English. Brett also wrote the Painted Man on his HP iPaq while commuting to and fro work. The Desert Spear, however, is known safely as The Desert Spear in the UK and the US. I imagine some “clever” marketing market research thought The Painted Man was a bit too close to painted lady and so the book was subject to a rebranding. It’s also worth noting that the book was initially published in America as the Warded Man. A deal that involves Jermey Bolt, the UK based producer of the Resident Evil franchise. I first became aware of The Painted Man because of it’s possible $100 million film deal. The first in the series is The Painted Man which simply took my breath away. I think they’re already calling it the Demon trilogy but let’s not count our chickens until they’ve hatched like demonic drones from the core of the earth. The Desert Spear is the second book in the Demon series.