I realise that if he was real and I did meet him, I’d probably die horribly in the next chapter, but he’s still my favourite fictional character. Before Ben can decide whether or not to go and rescue Madison, He's persuaded by the Secret Service to join a small team of soldiers going to Afghanistan to liberate a British Royal Prince. He stared at the red disc of the sun slowly dipping into the band of purple-tinged clouds across the eastern horizon.

The tight knit group that joins Ben on his rescue of originally Madison and then the teacher and kids have a good background to the story . g. Atlantis, Excalibur and so forth, these topics almost always resemble more fantasy than a thriller).I so love how Ben gets pulled into these kinds of missions despite his unwillingness and desire for a mundane life. Wolf has his own agenda but both men know the conditions they face may prove as lethal as their enemies. With no rules and few friends, Hope will have to tap into all his skills while staying as quiet as possible if he hopes to leave the country alive,.

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. This is no exception to its predecessors, with an archeological twist to Alexander’s lost city and his hidden treasures. Apart from the utter crassness of the character choice, the book ended with a “with one bound he was free” moment.I felt however that the book slumped a bit in the middle with a rather overlong description of Alexander the Great’s Afghan campaign. An ancient lost city founded by Alexander the Great, rediscovered by Madison’s archaeologist father.

It's not only having a nice team but also how story is raising interest adding layers of new situations on top of existing ones. As always dragged into it against his will, against overwhelming odds with a lady involved at some point, that’s a Ben Hope storyline. Since discovering the work of Scott Mariani, I have been highly impressed with the series as a whole, as well and many of the individual books.So when ex-SAS major Ben Hope hears former bounty-hunter, Madison Cahill, needs his help he knows it will test him to his limits – and beyond.

As always, there is a historical element to these stories and quite a lot of detail to impart, which slows down the action for a while and gives the rescue party a chance to catch their breath. When I started this 26th book in Ben Hope series, I felt that the author should conclude this series and give our beloved protagonist some happy ending, which he deserves for long. In this book, Ben enters into the Taliban occupied Afghanistan to find out his friend Madison, who got stranded there due to the political tension after US military force was withdrawn. I think that this book really shows that character development that Ben has gone through throughout this series, he’s far more measured than he would have been if this had been towards the start of the series. Not a bad way to start in the series for myself but it got me interested in starting from the beginning and start a fresh with a new author.Who is the “Spartan” that the British government wants back from Afghanistan and what makes him so valuable?