The Ghost War
Written by Alex Berenson
Narrated by George Guidall
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Deep cover CIA operative John Wells barely survived his homecoming when it was thought he'd become too close to the terrorists. Though his wounds have healed, his mind is far from clear. He needs to get back in the fight. And there is a fight waiting for him.
A power play in China is causing chaos around the globe. And even as Wells does what he does best, a mole within the CIA is preparing to light the final fuse that will propel an unsuspecting world toward open war and annihilation. And this time, there may be nothing John Wells can do to stop it...
Alex Berenson
Alex Berenson is a former New York Times reporter and award-winning novelist. He attended Yale University and joined the Times in 1999, where he covered everything from the drug industry to Hurricane Katrina and served as a correspondent in Iraq. In 2006, The Faithful Spy, his debut novel, won the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best First Novel. He has since written twelve more novels and a nonfiction book, Tell Your Children. Currently, he lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife and children.
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Reviews for The Ghost War
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Another spectacular John Wells novel, rivaled only by the Mitch Rapp series. Raw, gritty, suspenseful and action packed. What else could u ask for.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In retrospect, Ghost War is not a typical BattleTech novel, but I can't say I mind overmuch.I have to admit, Stackpole's novel holds a special place for me; it's the first BattleTech book I read, and is more or less responsible for my subsequent purchase of the 92 other (English language) novels in the series, plus an assortment of sourcebooks.Given that I naturally have it up on a rather high pedestal, I was half-afraid that when I reread it recently it wouldn't hold up. Fortunately, for the most part, it did.The novel served well as an introduction for me, because it was written to serve as an introduction for new readers; with its jump into the setting of MechWarrior: Dark Age, Ghost War had to not only introduce the changes in the 65-year gap, but also make itself accessible to players of MWDA who weren't familiar with the BattleTech setting.But now that I've read the rest of the books and gone back to it, how does it stack up?Pretty well, I think.Ghost War is a spy novel at heart. Stackpole maintains control of the pacing and plot, letting the reader get a sense of the big picture only when Sam Donnelly does. Even across the multiple planets and settings, Stackpole still manages to spend time developing his fairly sizable cast. In a way, this book is more revealing about everyday life in the Inner Sphere than most books before it; Stackpole spends quite a bit of time out of the cockpit, on the ground among the "common" people. When many of the books before and after this focus on the nobility and their 'Mechs, it's a welcome change of pace.The book isn't perfect; the narrator occasionally veered into Corran Horn's speech patterns ("Enable help files, please"), but overall I thought the two characters were fairly distinct. And despite the occasional slip in dialogue and the new look at the universe, Stackpole never lost the sense of the BattleTech setting.If you're a BattleTech or MechWarrior fan and are looking to get started with the novels, or indeed are a fan of Stackpole's books in general (which is what brought me to the book in the first place), you could do far worse than Ghost War.