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 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...
I think all the reviews I read here have good points to them. I think this series is ment to be fiction plain and simple, and is not for everyone. Maybe not even for most. "Ghost" does things I wouldn't condone under the worst situations and neither does he. He says that's why he kills the people he does, is that he is the same as them but he makes the choice not to act on those desires and so could they if they wanted...
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This book is fun as hell!!! People who write crappy reviews about this book as if they were expecting Tuesdays With Morrie, have missed the point of this book. This is 1980's Chuck Norris ( Delta Force, Missing in Action, Invasion U.S.A. ) with the personality of Andrew Dice Clay. I read Ted Bell, Vince Flynn, W.E.B., this is not these books. I think this is meant to be over the top, with a cartoonish protagonist that doesn't...
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Actually this is not a novel per se, but a collection of three succesive short stories. It is absolutely politically in-correct, which contributes to making it excellent both to enjoy as entertainment and as food for thought. We are presented a hero who is a responsible BDSM top ( sensational idea) as well as (unrealistically) great military fighter hwo does not really fit in a normal society today. The action is fairy-tale...
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This book is three novellas that serve as an introduction to Mike Harmon and several other characters that are more fully developed in subsequent books in the series. This book is not Science Fiction. There are two major plot arcs involving contemporary Special Ops against terrorists, with a large dollop of sex as well. The sex scenes are explicit and range from light dominance and submission to brutal rape. The rape of...
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Author John Ringo has shown, as he did with his op ed pieces in the New York Daily News a few years ago, that he can do more things than write military SF. His fiction has ranged from hard SF to sci-fantasy, and now he branches out into contemporary thrillers. Ghost is NOT science fiction, or fantasy. Ghostis a contemporary action thriller, more in line with Michael Z. Williamson's Target of Opportunity and the early Dale...
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