Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    The Ghost War
    Unavailable
    The Ghost War
    Unavailable
    The Ghost War
    Audiobook12 hours

    The Ghost War

    Written by Alex Berenson

    Narrated by George Guidall

    4/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this audiobook

    Deep cover CIA operative John Wells barely survived his homecoming when it was thought he'd become too close to the terrorists. Though his wounds have healed, his mind is far from clear. He needs to get back in the fight. And there is a fight waiting for him.

    A power play in China is causing chaos around the globe. And even as Wells does what he does best, a mole within the CIA is preparing to light the final fuse that will propel an unsuspecting world toward open war and annihilation. And this time, there may be nothing John Wells can do to stop it...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 12, 2008
    ISBN9781429592291
    Unavailable
    The Ghost War
    Author

    Alex Berenson

    Alex Berenson is a former New York Times reporter and award-winning novelist. He attended Yale University and joined the Times in 1999, where he covered everything from the drug industry to Hurricane Katrina and served as a correspondent in Iraq. In 2006, The Faithful Spy, his debut novel, won the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best First Novel. He has since written twelve more novels and a nonfiction book, Tell Your Children. Currently, he lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife and children.

    More audiobooks from Alex Berenson

    Related to The Ghost War

    Related audiobooks

    War & Military Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Total Peace part II

      Apr 21, 2020

      Peace may be rarer than potatoes in ancient China, but that won’t stop me trying to play Total War: Three Kingdoms as something resembling a pacifist. My last attempt wasn’t smooth sailing. I may have started war with the tyrant Dong Zhou and his vas

      7 min read

    • Article

      Total Peace Part I

      Mar 5, 2020

      Total Peace Part I
      6 min read

    • Article

      Total Peace part I

      Mar 24, 2020

      1 Cannot declare war 2 Cannot directly attack armies 3 Can defend from attack I’ve recently written two diary series for PC Gamer, and they both involved an enormous amount of killing. Well, I’ve had enough. No more swords. No more guns. No more leak

      7 min read

    • Article

      Total Peace Part II

      Apr 2, 2020

      Total Peace Part II
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Truth About Steve Bannon

      Aug 30, 2020

      The Truth About Steve Bannon
      5 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: Neck Deep In The Big Muddy

      Feb 1, 2024

      Read the news, hup, two, three, four! “Top United States officials prodded Israel on Monday to do more to protect civilians in the Gaza Strip . . .” Thus began a recent, and oh so typical, piece of war reportage. It was purveyed by the New York Times

      4 min read

    • Article

      A Thrill A Second

      Aug 25, 2023

      Minutes after departing from Honolulu, Hawaii, one engine of Flight 1421 catches fire, causing the pilots to lose all control of the aircraft. There’s only one option open to them: an emergency landing at sea. Miraculously, they land the plane in one

      3 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: Peace Means Embracing What We Fear

      Oct 19, 2023

      “In the midst of our grief and pain, let’s remind each other who we are.” These are the words of Stefanie Fox, executive director of Jewish Voice for Peace. She goes on: “We are people committed to tikkun olam, the repairing of the world. The Israeli

      4 min read

    • Article

      Acting On Impulse

      Sep 11, 2019

      Acting On Impulse
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Farewell

      Jul 3, 2019

      The Farewell
      3 min read

    • Article

      Junk History

      Jan 16, 2022

      Junk History
      2 min read

    • Article

      Junk History

      Jan 2, 2022

      Junk History
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Conspirasphere

      Mar 21, 2024

      THE SWIFT AND THE DEADShe has 279 million followers on Instagram. Her last tour grossed over $1 billion, making it the biggest of all time. The movie of the tour grossed better than most Hollywood blockbusters. Apparently nearly one-fifth of American

      3 min read

    • Article

      Antihero Scale

      Aug 19, 2022

      His helmet might look like a toilet seat (sorry, beacon of freedom), but John Cena’s “douchey Captain America” won’t take any shit when it comes to defending and safeguarding America. And if that means turning on his cohorts, killing Rick Flag and ea

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Pitch

      Jul 13, 2022

      The Pitch
      4 min read

    • Article

      Review: 'Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War': Patriot games

      Nov 25, 2020

      The United States of America: Boy, we sure are exhausting. This was the conclusion I reached after finishing the single-player campaign in the latest "Call of Duty," a realization that I don't believe was entirely unintentional. These are games desig

      5 min read

    • Article

      Total Peace Part III

      Apr 30, 2020

      Total Peace Part III
      7 min read

    • Article

      Veni? Yes. Vidi? Yes. Vici? No

      Aug 11, 2022

      The Latin phrase veni, vidi, vici can be translated into English as I came, I saw, I conquered. Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has come and she has seen, but she most definitely will not conquer China’s Taiwan. Any claim to

      3 min read

    Reviews for The Ghost War

    4/5

    37 ratings2 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      Another spectacular John Wells novel, rivaled only by the Mitch Rapp series. Raw, gritty, suspenseful and action packed. What else could u ask for.
    • 5/5
      In retrospect, Ghost War is not a typical BattleTech novel, but I can't say I mind overmuch.I have to admit, Stackpole's novel holds a special place for me; it's the first BattleTech book I read, and is more or less responsible for my subsequent purchase of the 92 other (English language) novels in the series, plus an assortment of sourcebooks.Given that I naturally have it up on a rather high pedestal, I was half-afraid that when I reread it recently it wouldn't hold up. Fortunately, for the most part, it did.The novel served well as an introduction for me, because it was written to serve as an introduction for new readers; with its jump into the setting of MechWarrior: Dark Age, Ghost War had to not only introduce the changes in the 65-year gap, but also make itself accessible to players of MWDA who weren't familiar with the BattleTech setting.But now that I've read the rest of the books and gone back to it, how does it stack up?Pretty well, I think.Ghost War is a spy novel at heart. Stackpole maintains control of the pacing and plot, letting the reader get a sense of the big picture only when Sam Donnelly does. Even across the multiple planets and settings, Stackpole still manages to spend time developing his fairly sizable cast. In a way, this book is more revealing about everyday life in the Inner Sphere than most books before it; Stackpole spends quite a bit of time out of the cockpit, on the ground among the "common" people. When many of the books before and after this focus on the nobility and their 'Mechs, it's a welcome change of pace.The book isn't perfect; the narrator occasionally veered into Corran Horn's speech patterns ("Enable help files, please"), but overall I thought the two characters were fairly distinct. And despite the occasional slip in dialogue and the new look at the universe, Stackpole never lost the sense of the BattleTech setting.If you're a BattleTech or MechWarrior fan and are looking to get started with the novels, or indeed are a fan of Stackpole's books in general (which is what brought me to the book in the first place), you could do far worse than Ghost War.