This ‘’Ghost’’ May Not Walk Through Walls, but Walls had Better Not Get in His Way! A New Techno-thriller Adventure Series by a New York Times Best-Selling Author.Former SEAL Michael Harmon, Team Name ‘’Ghost’‘, retired for service injuries, is not enjoying college life. But things are about to change, if not for the better.When he sees a kidnapping a series of, at the time logical, decisions … the time logical, decisions leave him shot to ribbons and battling a battalion of Syrian commandos with only the help of three naked co-eds who answer to the names ‘’Bambi,’’ ‘’Thumper’’ and ‘’Cotton Tail.’’
A fast-paced, highly-sexual, military-action thriller that ranges from a poison factory in the Mideast to the Florida Keys to Siberia, the novel will keep you guessing what twisted fate will bring next for the man once known as . . . Ghost. Keep an eye on him or . . . poof, he’ll be gone.
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This first book is made of a series of three vignettes, and stars one Mike Harmon, a veteran who is not a very nice person, but he does qualify as a good man. Ringo opens this book with a quote from George Orwell — We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to do violence on our behalf.
Mr. Harmon is one such rough person.
“Ghost” is the code name of former Navy SEAL Mike Harmon. Trapped on a far-left college campus, the veteran feels isolated and discriminated against. But when he sees a co-ed being kidnapped, he charges in to save the day, only to find himself in the middle of a terrorist plot that takes him all the way to Syria, where he lands in the middle of a terrorist stronghold, and eighty hostages, all of whom are slated to die.
The second vignette… skim it. Trust me. It’s a thirty thousand word story that’s twenty thousand words of bondage porn and deep-sea fishing.
Vignette three finds Harmon in Eastern Europe, and he finds himself hip deep in a plot to nuke Paris.
It is a completely twisted turn on the action adventure book.
This book is not for the easily offended. It is difficult to read because it is from a hardened former soldier’s POV. It is raw. It was difficult for me to read. But I read it to see what these fuss was about the author.
This book is actually 3 books in one but it is a continuous story. The lead character is a former solider who now works black ops missions. He is good at what he does. But his mind is a very scary place.
This book is not for the easily offended nor those who cannot understand what war does to a person. While it is extremely well written, I say read with caution.
Ghost is a hard novel to rate. I owe Ringo a special thanks for writing it, because reading Ghost showed me that things I considered too over-the-top to write in my own fiction, weren’t. I’d been self-censoring when it wasn’t necessary, and the books that I wrote after that became very successful. On the other hand, Ghost isn’t for everybody. It’s distilled Ringo, which to me is like concentrated awesome, but I can see where not everybody would feel that way.
John Ringo is a very good author of millitary fantasy as well as fantasy and some excellent millitary science fiction.
He writes in series so you rarely have that “And then what happens?” feeling when you’ve finished the book.
When his new books come out I rarely even bother to read the jacket. I just run it up to the cashier.
Good book, definitely NS for teens under 13 probably but then they probably hear about the sex in this book in grade school or Kindergarten by now.
The first four books were good to read after that you could tell he’s starting to mail it in on this series, or someone else is ghost writing for him.
But the first 1-4 yeah, fun, good action packed series. Beware of the 6th book didn’t just mail that one…airmailed it from BFE
OH John Ringo! Ghost is a military thriller with a steamy erotic story attached. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea, because the war (and sex) scenes are described in gory/glory detail. A definite page-turner and a book for the military dark erotic romance lover in your life.