The Devil’s Kingdom
Written by Scott Mariani
Narrated by Colin Mace
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
‘Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch’ Andy McDermott
HAS BEN HOPE FINALLY MET HIS MATCH?
The adventure began in STAR OF AFRICA, now ex-SAS major Ben Hope is in the most desperate situation of his life…
Held hostage by a despicable tyrant in the heart of Africa, it’s not looking good for Ben Hope.
General Khosa’s lust for blood is matched only by his lust for power – and he wants to use Ben’s superior military skills to turn his rabble of inexperienced boys into an army of lethal soldiers.
If Ben refuses, Khosa will kill the person he loves most. If he cooperates, he’ll bring more death and devastation to the world’s most violent, war-torn nation.
Either way, Ben will have blood on his hands – unless he can defeat Khosa. It seems an impossible task. But for Ben Hope, anything is possible…
The Ben Hope series is a must-read for fans of Dan Brown, Lee Child and Mark Dawson. Join the millions of readers who get breathless with anticipation when the countdown to a new Ben Hope thriller begins…
Whilst the Ben Hope thrillers can be read in any order, this is the fourteenth book in the series, and forms a two-part sequence with previous book STAR OF AFRICA.
Scott Mariani
Scott Mariani is the author of the worldwide-acclaimed action / adventure series featuring maverick ex-SAS hero Ben Hope. Scott’s books have topped the bestseller charts in the UK and beyond. Scott was born in Scotland, studied in Oxford and now lives and writes in rural west Wales.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What a great book .I could not put it down.Keep up the great work I can't wait until next book .
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The tension was both exhilarating and exhausting! Whew what a ride!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5We sometimes hear about genocide and tribal warfare in Africa, but seldom do we have it written about in such great and shocking detail. Most of this follow-up to "Star of Africa" is taken up with the ambitions of Jean-Pierre Khosa whom we first came across in that book. Some of the detail is quite hard to bear, revealing the suffering and cruelty that can take place.Having said that, I have to say that Scott Mariani has produced another extremely lively, fast-moving Ben Hope episode, that also does a great deal to inform us of what can happen in our world, not just in Africa. Ben, Jeff Dekker, Tuesday Fletcher and Ben's son, Jude, all have their very important parts to play in dealing with what seems to be insurmountable odds. The plot doesn't just develop, it explodes onto the pages. It is, perhaps, the darkest of the series so far, but it is an excellent read, one that reveals just how bad man's inhumanity to man can be, and provoking quite a bit of thought about the world in which we live. Not a comfortable read, but well worthwhile.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5As a Scott Mariani fan, I struggled to enjoy this book. In fact, I'd go so far as to say I enjoyed it the least of all his books I've read.This one is the second part in a two-book story, started with The Star Of Africa. Now, whereas in most of Mariani's books (as with many others of course) there is a tried-and-true process of amping up the tension (bad stuff happens, bad guys seem to be winning, good guys suffer some setbacks) and then at some point we get a release of that tension (good guys prevail in the end, bad guys get what's coming to them.) However, in this two-book series, it seems that the amping-up of the tensions was twice as intense and went on for twice as long - leaving the reader (well, me at least) feeling well and truly ready for what felt like the long-overdue climax.Don't get me wrong, it's not boring, and there is plenty of action and excitement, but the 'building of tension' phase just felt to be going on for too long.This brings me to the 'releasing of tension' phase - where the good guys finally prevail. [minor spoilers from here] Mariani's usual style dictates a short but intense fight scene, in which the main antagonist is defeated and suffers some sort of satisfyingly brutal death. This story is a little different - no climactic fight, and no brutal death (or death at all.) While I applaud Mariani for trying to avoid being too formulated and predictable, this left me feeling a little unsatisfied with a somewhat anticlimactic ending. For 800-odd pages we are shown what a brutal, evil, cruel, despicable human being he is, all the while knowing he's going to cop it in the end, and then ultimately we're robbed of that satisfaction.