Ghost Soldier, Mike Maden

Ghost Soldier opening lines: The Moonshiner was the eighty-seventh aircraft in a line of 145 B-29B Superfortress bombers rolling down the tarmac.

Ghost Soldier

My blurb:

To The Vendor, chaos is key. But for this Japanese man, the ultimate aim is the destruction of his arch enemy, by any means possible. For Cabrillo and his team, their aim is to find out who he is. This arms dealer is wreaking havoc across the world, and there is more at play that just a human army. Can The Corporation figure out all the chess pieces in what is not a game?

Ghost Soldier
A deadly war game. An adversary as hard to find as he is to kill. Weapons so sophisticated, none have seen the like before. Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon have finally met their match in this pulsepounding new adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
When African jihadis attack a Nigerian regiment using American weapons, Cabrillo and the Oregon crew are on the case, investigating from Afghanistan to Kuala Lumpur to track a mysterious arms dealer—a genius, or perhaps a devil— known only as the Vendor.
Cabrillo goes undercover to find the Vendor’s base, but his adversary isn’t just an arms smuggler. He’s an arms maker, and Cabrillo just walked into a lethal military game alongside the most dangerous mercenaries in the world, designed to test the Vendor’s cutting-edge AI arsenal.
And yet, surviving an arena full of flame-throwing robots isn’t even his biggest problem. The Vendor has an army of high-speed drones headed for a pivotal military site, and if the Oregon crew can’t stop them from releasing a deadly neurotoxin, the entire globe will erupt in conflict.
My verdict:

I will always choose to read a Clive Cussler book as the stories are usually so interesting. And the possibilities presented in them could often be a reality. This book to me had highs and lows. I enjoyed reading it, and paged through it super fast. But I was not a fan of just how much killing went on.

About Clive Cussler
Clive Cussler was the author of more than eighty books in five bestselling series, including Dirk Pitt®, NUMA Files®, Oregon Files®, Isaac Bell®, and Sam and Remi Fargo®. His life nearly paralleled that of his hero Dirk Pitt. Whether searching for lost aircraft or leading expeditions to find famous shipwrecks, he and his NUMA crew of volunteers discovered and surveyed more than seventy-five lost ships of historic significance, including the long-lost Civil War submarine Hunley, which was raised in 2000 with much publicity. Like Pitt, Cussler collected classic automobiles. His collection featured more than one hundred examples of custom coachwork. Cussler passed away in February 2020.

About Mike Maden

Mike Maden is the author of Clive Cussler Fire Strike, Clive Cussler’s Hellburner, the critically acclaimed Drone series, and four novels in Tom Clancy’s #1 New York Times bestselling Jack Ryan Jr. series. He holds both a master’s and Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Davis, specializing in international relations and comparative politics. He has lectured and consulted on the topics of war and the Middle East, among others. Maden has served as a political consultant and campaign manager in state and national elections, and hosted his own local weekly radio show for a year.

ISBN 9780241704349
Format Trade Paperback
Published November 2024

Penguin Random House South Africa sent me this novel to review.

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6 thoughts on “Ghost Soldier, Mike Maden

  1. I am being difficult on my side of the Pond – way back when I still found time to read fiction, I too quite liked Clive Cussler . . . but, however enjoyable a book, I have a certain difficulty in reading a dead author’s name on a currently published volume in bigger print than the real author’s . . . just me . . .

  2. An interesting verdict. Killing has its place is some books, the same as sex, but to much of a good thing is just that.

  3. I don’t think this is the kind of book I like to read in bed at night. Too much violence. I used to read Clive Cussler though many years ago. Also Tandy I don’t quite understand the process here, is Mike Maden a kind of ghost writer for these other famous authors. Pauline (Happy retirees kitchen)

    1. Since Clive Cussler passed away, his ‘books’ have been taken over for continuation. There are a few authors who write the new Clive Cussler novels, Mike Maden being one of them. His son is the other. This is the same for the Tom Clancy novels.

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