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Ghost
Paladin of Shadows Series #1
2006 -- John Ringo
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.
Kildar
Paladin of Shadows Series #2
2006 -- John Ringo
Ex-SEAL Mike Harmon has bought the farm – literally, in Eastern Europe. But trouble follows him even there, and the man who has made himself anathema to terrorists from Syria to Paris suddenly has Chechen terrorists banging on his own door.
Choosers of the Slain
Paladin of Shadows Series #3
2006 -- John Ringo
Mike Harmon’s commando-quality retainers agree: their leader, code-named Ghost, is a peculiar one. An ex-Navy-SEAL, there is no stronghold he cannot penetrate, no target he can’t take out. But Ghost is also a man struggling to keep the animal inside at bay and his twisted sexual desires satisfied with a rock-hard integrity and incredible force of will.
Now Harmon and his militia have been hired to rescue the daughter of a powerful political mover in America, kidnapped into the Eastern Europe sex trade.
Welcome to the Balkan Route: a notorious pathway for human trafficking carved with blood and brutality and passing through Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Kosovo to the heart of darkness itself: sexual snuff houses where powerful politicians pay to rape and murder young women for kicks. Turns out some of those politicians hail from Washington, D.C.
But now the Route is about to be re-Routed, and the balance of power is about to shift dramatically - to the smoking muzzle of one very angry ex-SEAL’s M-4.
Sometimes it takes a bad man to destroy an even more terrible evil. And the baddest of them all is Ghost. They’ll be sorry they made his girls cry.
Unto the Breach
Paladin of Shadows Series #4
2006 -- John Ringo
Former SEAL Michael Harmon–the hero from “Ghost”, “Kildar,” and “Choosers of the Slain”–and his company of elite mountain fighters are sent on a mission to stop an advanced smallpox virus from being turned over to terrorists. But that’s just the beginning as Kildar and his Keldara rush to stop a host of WMD attacks.
A Deeper Blue
Paladin of Shadows Series #5
2007 -- John Ringo
Set in the Bahamas and Florida, A Deeper Blue is a fast-moving thriller that starts off at a rocket pace and never slows down. The novel proves once again the adage that sometimes it takes bad people to do good things. Fortunately, Mike Harmon is a very bad man.
Tiger by the Tail
Paladin of Shadows Series #6
2013 -- John Ringo
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLING MILITARY ADVENTURE SERIES.
A new addition to the Paladin of Shadows military adventure series by multiple New York Times best seller John Ringo and Ryan Sear. Sequel to Ghost, Kildar, Choosers of the Slain, Unto the Breach and A Deeper Blue.
Killing Floor
Jack Reacher Series #1
1997 -- Lee Child
Jack Reacher visits a town without pity in the first novel in Lee Child’s New York Times best-selling series.
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He’s just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he’s arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is that he didn’t kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately.
But he doesn’t stand a chance of convincing anyone. Not in Margrave, Georgia. Not a chance in hell.
Die Trying
Jack Reacher Series #2
1998 -- Lee Child
Jack Reacher finds himself in bad company in the second novel in Lee Child’s New York Times bestselling series.
Jack Reacher is an innocent bystander when he witnesses a woman kidnapped off a Chicago street in broad daylight. In the wrong place at the wrong time, he’s kidnapped with her. Chained together, locked in the back of a stifling van, and racing across America to an unknown destination for an unknown purpose, they’re at the mercy of a group of men demanding an impossible ransom. Because this mysterious woman is worth more than Reacher ever suspected.
Now he has to save them both—from the inside out—or die trying…
Tripwire
Jack Reacher Series #3
1999 -- Lee Child
The Sentinel
Jack Reacher Series #25
2020 -- Lee Child
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Jack Reacher is back! The “utterly addictive” (The New York Times) series continues as acclaimed author Lee Child teams up with his brother, Andrew Child, fellow thriller writer extraordinaire.
“One of the many great things about Jack Reacher is that he’s larger than life while remaining relatable and believable. The Sentinel shows that two Childs are even better than one.”—James Patterson
Jack Reacher gets off a bus in Nashville, Tennessee, in a quest for food, lodging and some good country music. But when he encounters a band of musicians who have been cheated by an unscrupulous bar owner, he steps in to help…