Ghost — John Ringo

WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN?

Former SEAL Mike Harmon, team name "Ghost," discharged with partial disabilities, was having trouble fitting in on a very liberal college campus. But when he observed the kidnapping of a coed, it was time for others to be troubled.

Because underneath his usually placid exterior, Mike Harmon was a bundle of barely controlled fury. Highly motivated, highly trained fury. And when terrorists gave him the opportunity, he became . . . himself.

A series of at the time rational decisions led him, via a raft of tortured terrorist bodies, to a facility in Syria, a "logistics warehouse" called Aleppo Four. And in the dank basements of that "warehouse" the true, horrible nature of the kidnappers' plans were revealed: if the Great Satan would not withdraw over the deaths of aid workers and soldiers, then let them see what could happen to their lovely daughters. The only fly in the ointment being one banged up former SEAL.

Now Ghost is as free to do his will as the wolf running beneath the moon. Freed of military regulations, freed of military justice. And morals and ethics were never his strong suit.

Sometimes it takes a very bad man to do a good job. In that case, they've got the right SEAL for the job.