Graveyard of Empires by Scott Mariani
My ranking: 4 of 5 stars
Graveyard of Empires is e-book twenty-six within the lengthy working Ben Hope motion journey collection.
This story is about within the conflict zone of Afghanistan. Ben is recruited to participate in a secret rescue mission, which coincides with a latest name for assist to discover a lacking archaeologist final seen in Kabul. Ben hopes that the rescue mission might be a fast job after which he can go off looking for the misplaced lady.
There are many twists and turns as plans go awry and Ben is left working from the Taliban. He manages to discover a group of ex-military males and collectively they staff up, agreeing to assist one another with their completely different goals.
I loved studying extra about Afghanistan and the realm typically, which crammed in a lot of my beforehand unknown historical past of the realm. There have been additionally sufficient motion scenes to maintain thriller followers comfortable, with an excellent build-up to a satisfying ending.
Guide Description:
Some wars are destined to be fought ceaselessly…
They name it ‘The Graveyard of Empires’ for good cause. For hundreds of years, Afghanistan has been the rock that generations of would-be conquerors have perished on. What likelihood does one man stand on this place?
So when ex-SAS main Ben Hope hears former bounty-hunter, Madison Cahill, wants his assist he is aware of it’ll take a look at him to his limits – and past. Because the borders slam shut, he should hint his good friend earlier than the brand new regime does. His solely lead? An historical misplaced metropolis based by Alexander the Nice and rediscovered by Madison’s archaeologist father.
The mission will take Ben again to a spot he thought was firmly in his previous, again to somebody he can by no means go away behind – and again to some outdated comrades. Amongst these is SAS man turned murderer, Jaden Wolf. Wolf has come to Afghanistan along with his personal agenda and is aware of in addition to Ben that the situations they face might show as deadly as their enemies.
As they uncover outdated secrets and techniques, they discover trendy ones are simply as harmful. Who’s the mysterious ‘Spartan’ that the British officers are so determined to extract from behind enemy traces? And outnumbered and outgunned at each flip, is the stress of being the final hope of the harmless an excessive amount of to bear when surviving previous sunset appears not possible?
