Reaper: Ghost Target
A Sniper Novel
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- 12,99 €
Publisher Description
The explosive new thriller series written by Nicholas Irving, the New York Times bestselling author of The Reaper and star of Fox's American Grit.
"Wow! Irving & Tata make an incredible team. Reaper: Ghost Target is pedal-to-the-metal action packed with great twists and turns. Think 'Jason Bourne meets Bob Lee Swagger' then buckle up and get ready for one hell of a read!" —Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Use of Force
“A compelling and intriguing tale, layered with suspense, told by two people who know what they’re talking about. This one goes on your keeper shelf.” —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The 14th Colony
American hero, or unhinged vigilante?
In Reaper: Ghost Target, Vick "The Reaper" Harwood is an esteemed sniper with a record kill count—33 kills in 90 days—when he is knocked out under mortar attack in Afghanistan. He wakes up back in the United States with little memory of what happened, his spotter and gun both unrecovered from the battlefield. Harwood has resigned himself to slowly picking up the pieces of his life, training Special Forces snipers in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and starting a promising relationship with an Olympic medalist named Jackie.
But when a series of assassinations start occurring in the area, Harwood can't explain why he just happens to be nearby for each killing—or how a sniper rifle that matches the description of the one he lost seems to be involved. His memory of the past few days is hazy and full of blackouts, and even he has to wonder, is he being framed? Or is he the killer?
As Harwood runs from the authorities, his girlfriend falls off the radar, his missing spotter resurfaces, and the assassinated men are outed as drug and sex traffickers. Nothing is adding up. Harwood realizes he has to unravel this mystery, and fast, or find himself paying the ultimate price for crimes he may not have committed.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The combined military experience of bestseller Irving (The Reaper) and retired general Tata (Direct Fire) lends credibility to this series launch, but off-the-shelf bad guys and standard mystery genre elements slow the momentum. In 2010, Chechen terrorist Khasan Basayev and three Russian army men parachute into the ocean off the coast of Savannah, Ga. The Russians are captured, but Basayev successfully buries a nuclear suitcase-bomb and escapes. In the present, the deadliest sniper in the U.S. Army, Vick Harwood (aka the Reaper), and spotter Corporal Sammie Samuelson are in Afghanistan on a mission to kill Basayev. When artillery rounds hit their position, Vick survives and returns to the U.S. for rehab, but Sammie disappears. Later, as Vick travels from base to base training snipers, someone is using his personal sniper rifle, which he lost in Afghanistan, to kill American generals. Suspicion falls on Vick because the killings coincide with his being nearby. Despite the pacing problems, military action fans will eagerly await the next installment. 75,000-copy announced first printing.
