When the first edition was published in 1982, Davis was just emerging from a shadowy five-year silence.
The generals and spooks who run the show, in particular a shadowy 75-year-old security chief, General Muhammad "Toufiq" Mediène, are jostling for the succession.
The popular image of hackers hasn't changed much in twenty years: shadowy supervillains who can, with a few keystrokes, take down key global infrastructure, break into your emails, or hijack your phone and/or computer, and there's nothing much you can do about it.
The Iraqi army and police forces have more experience at dealing with militants who attempt to blend into the population in towns and cities than at fighting a conventional-style war, Dempsey said, noting that they have battled such a shadowy foe for years.
Our exuberant guide, who clearly loved the house, recounted its stories, from ghost sightings to the tragically real history of Hetty Walwyn, an 18th-century daughter, who was confined in one of those shadowy rooms for 30 years as punishment for a scandalous elopement.
In recent years, the shadowy RBN is suspected of becoming a hub for online crimes ranging from phishing to child pornography, and is suspected to have created the Storm worm that infected millions of computers in 2008.
What that Google search and some news outlets are including are superdelegates, the group of elected Democrats and party officials that are cast as shadowy characters every four years because of specious tallies like these.
In March, La Baume winery in Languedoc suffered a bomb attack — the second in five years — and a shadowy group opposed to the "industrialization" of winemaking is blamed.
A few years ago a shadowy dealer approached North Carolina officials through lawyers and threatened to ship the document "to somewhere in the Middle East" if the state did not cough up at least $3 million.
Nouhak spent many years as a shadowy figure working behind the scenes in the Vietnam-dominated Indochinese Communist Party, the nationalist Lao Issara ("Free Laos"), the Pathet Lao, the clandestine People's Party of Laos, and finally the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP), which he cofounded in 1972.
