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Summary
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.
Author Notes
Nicholas Irving spent six years in the Army's Special Operations 3rd Ranger Battalion 75th Ranger Regiment. He served in a wide range of positions, from a demolitions assaulter to a Master Sniper, and was the first African American to serve as a sniper in his battalion. He is now the CEO and owner of HardShoot. His autobiography, The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers, was published in 2015.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
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. Agent: Scott Miller, Trident Media Group. (May) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
This debut of a new black-ops series boasts two coauthors who know the field. Irving is the author of a pair of nonfiction accounts describing his own career as a sniper (The Reaper, 2015, and Way of the Reaper, 2016), while Tata writes the Jake Maheganseries starring a Delta Force captain. Here Vick Harwood is world renowned for his sniper skills, and he's known, like Irving in real life, as the Reaper. Khasan Basayev is also a sniper with the code name the Chechen, and he's a thorn in the Reaper's side. When Vick has a chance to take out the Chechen, he fails and is severely injured. His spotter is left for dead, but he's quite alive and is about to become a pawn in the Chechen's game to rid the world of the Reaper once and for all. The writing seems a little rough around the edges, but there's time to fix that in future installments. Irving's stature in the black-ops world will ensnare readers who follow Brad Taylor and Vince Flynn.--Ayers, Jeff Copyright 2018 Booklist
Library Journal Review
Vick Harwood is known as the Reaper because of his extraordinary skill as a sniper--he's taken down 33 enemy targets during three months in Afghanistan. Then an assignment goes bad, when Harwood and Samuelson, his spotter, are attacked while tracking a Chechen mercenary. Harwood returns to the United States to recover from his injuries, and Samuelson goes missing in action. In his new role as an instructor, Harwood travels among military bases training snipers, but odd coincidences start happening-in each town he visits, a high-profile target is assassinated by a sniper, and the rifle used is the one that Harwood lost when he was attacked. Someone is framing him, and soon he's on the run from both his own government and the person intent on getting him killed. Expert sniper Irving (Reaper; Way of the Reaper) and coauthor Tata (Direct Fire) understand their weapons, tactics, and tradecraft inside and out. The action is relentless and exciting, and the conspiracy against Harwood is twisted and nasty. Although this is a plot-propelled thriller, Harwood's humanity and sense of justice shows via his actions on and off the battlefield. VERDICT This thrilling series starter will appeal to fans of assassin-on-the-run tales, such as Mark Greaney's "Grey Man" series.-Nanette Donohue, -Champaign, IL © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.