Ghost

by John Ringo

Paper Book, 2006

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Series

Paladin of Shadows (book 1)

Genres

Science Fiction

All Topics

Fiction

Publication

Riverdale, N.Y. : Godalming : Baen ; Melia [distributor], 2006.

Description

Fiction. Science Fiction. HTML: 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 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. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management)..… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member wmorton38

A modern (and very violent) Doc Savage meets the Marquis de Sade. No kidding, it’s a combination pulp techo-thriller (ex-Navy Seal vs. terrorists) and an S/M sex fantasy. It’s really three short related novels. The first is an action packed thriller, the second is 80% sex fantasy with the 20%

thriller kind of stuck on at the end as an afterthought. The third is more like the first but with some time-outs for the protagonist to rape/maul a prostitute.

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LibraryThing member ConalO

Who is Mike Harmon you ask?

Navy Seal? Check
Bad Ass? Definitely
Killer? Only if you look at him wrong (or maybe he is having an off day)
Rapist Fantasies? Right there in the first chapter
Sexual Deviant? I wish I didn't know
More then you want to know? Same here...
Another Ghost novel? Not even if you

paid me

This is a disturbing, unredeemable piece of trash that I wouldn't even wish on Mike Harmon (well maybe him)!!!

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LibraryThing member gecizzle

Some stupid, hormone-infused teenager must have written this book. Because that's the only way I can explain all the hot naked chicks in this story. Why'd they have to be naked? I mean yes, of course I want them to be naked. But is there really any reason for them to be naked? Not really.

This book

tells the story of some fucked-up terrorist organization that kidnaps several hot college chicks. They strip the girls naked, and chain them to a few rows of benches in a hot, sweaty room.

The terrorists make a video, showing the hot chained up girls. Telling the United States government to go fuck themselves. "We gots all yer womens, motherfuckers. Suck a dick! Yeah! Fuck America!"

Enter Michael 'The Ghost' Harmon. He's a retired special forces guy, who gets his nickname 'The Ghost' because he's a sneaky motherfucker. You'll never see him coming.

Ghost witnesses one of the kidnappings, and trails the van all the way to the terrorist hideout. He hangs out in the vents of the warehouse, biding his time, just like Bruce Willis in Die Hard. "So this is what a TV dinner feels like..."

It's the Ghost against probably 50 or more bad guys. He takes them out one by one. Saves the naked girls, and gets a sloppy blowjob for a reward.

It's a very simple story. Not very much depth to it. Like I said, It's like a fucking pimpled-faced teenager wrote it. It's just trashy fun, with no substance. And I loved it.

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LibraryThing member SunnySD

Lots of violence & sex. Not a bad read, but not for the young or the faint of heart. It's pretty graphic.

Briefly, former SEAL Mike Ryan is a semi-struggling college student hitting the books following his retirement from active duty. When he spots a kidnapping in progress and decides to intervene,

he ends up playing a pivotal role in saving the world.

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LibraryThing member tandu

The first in the series, and one of the best. It establishes the character of Mike Harmon very well, and the three stories in the book are all very fast paced and interesting. Not my normal sort of reading fare, but I enjoyed it a lot.

LibraryThing member dswaddell

For a first book in a series it has adequate character development but the author seems divided between a sex book or action/adventure. Pretty good read though.

LibraryThing member Music09

One of my favorite books of all time. If you love watching action movies where the stars seem to get into ridiculous situations, but miraculously survive, you'll love this series. It's bdsm scenes are also a hell of a lot more healthy and safe than 50 shades.

LibraryThing member Paul_S

This is not even the worst book I've read in my life but possibly the most juvenile. Bizarrely, I think it could appeal to both teenage boys and middle-aged housewives. It's ostensibly about a navy ranger seal frogman super secret agent soldier who singlehandedly saves the world from exploding

bombs multiple times but half the book is just descriptions of S&M sex. Including rape. By the hero. Who then buys the sex slave. I'm not offended, it's just words and I've read worse but it's just plain stupid. There's literally a moment when one of the 50 naked college students who the hero is rescuing says that she has seen the error of her liberal views and will now give blowjobs to conservatives because she now know she needs powerful men to protect her from terrorists.

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